The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11

board because some man OF strong lAitl-
leCt assails Christianity.
II q man Jumps overheard from Gun
ard steamer. he makes more excitement
than an five hundred sane passengers
who continue In the berths or on the
decks but does that stop the ship, Does
that wreck all the five hundred passen-
gers, IL makes great excitement when "a
man leaps from platform or a pulpit
into iutidelity. but does that hinder our
glorious Bible from taking its millions
into the skies. 7 tell you intdelity is not
half as bold now as il used to be.
Do YOU suppose such things could be en-
acted now as We're enacted In the days
of RObespierre, when shameless woman
was elected 10 be goddess. and she was
carried on a golden chair to "a cathedral,
and the people bowed down 10 her as
divine being, and burned incense before
| her-she to take the place OF the Bible,
| and of Christianity, and of the Lord
/ Almighty And while that ceremony
was going on in the cathedral, in the
. Chapels. and in the corridors adjoining
/ the cathedral, scenes of drunkenness and
| debauchery and Obscenity enacted such
as the world had never seen. Could such
. a thing as that transpire now No, sir.
The police would swOop on it, whether in
| Paris or New York lnhdelity is not half
as bold now as il used to be.
But" say our antagonists, Christi
anity is falling back because science, its
/ chief enemy, is trlumphlng over IL.
Now, deny that there is any war be-
| tween science and revelation. There is
not a fact in science that may not be
made to harmonic with the statements
of the Bible. So said Hugh Miller, so
said Joseph Henry, so said Professor
/ Hitchcock, so said Professor Sllliman, so
| said Professor Mitchell
Joseph Henry. the leading scientist OF
America, better known and hOnOred in
the royal societies transatlantic than any
| other American, lived and died "A belieV-
er in the religion of Jesus Christ Joseph
Henry knew all the facts Of geology, and
yet believed the book of Genesis. He
| knew all the facts of astronomy. and yet
| believed the book of Joshua, the sun an0
moon standing still. Joseph Henry knew
all the anatomy of man and fish, and yet
| believed the book of Jonah
| If the scientists of the day were all
| agreed, and they came up with solid front
TO attack our Christianity, perhaps they
might make some impression upon it ;
| but they are not agreed. Ii is often said
that we religiouists are falling in our ad-
vocacy Of Christianity because we differ
in our theology. I tell YOU we do not diff
/ fer inside the church in theology half as
much as they differ outside the church in
science If they reject our religion be
| cause we differ on some minor points, we
might Just as well reject science because
| the scientists differ, but as far as can tell,
the war Of infidel science against Christi
anity is not SO severe IS it used 70 be, be-
cause these men are antagOnistiC to each
I other; and as far as | can tell, it is going
| to be a war between telescope and tele-
scope, Leyden jar and Leyden jar, chemi-
| cal apparatus and chemical apparatus.
They do not agree on anything.
Do you suppose that this Bible theory
q t14gF tho origin of life iG croiDp tn no
Overthrowa by men who have different
| theolies-hftY different theOries-abOut
the origin of life And when Agassiz
comes out and puts both feet on the doc
| trine of evolution, and says in regard to
| many scientists: Il notice that these
young naturalists are adopting as theo-
ries in science things which have not
! passed under observation. Agassiz saw
what we all see-that there are men who
| talk very wisely who know but very lit
| tie and that Just as soon as a young sci
enlist finds out the difference between
the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a
beetle he begins TO patronize the Al
mighty and go about talking about cul-
ture as though il were spelled c-u-l-c-h-a-r
-culchar
1t makes me sick to see these literary
tops going down the street with copy
of Darwin under one arm and a case of
/ transtxed grasShoppers and butterflies
under the other arm, talking about the
! Survival of the Fittest and Huxley's
Protoplasm, and the Nebular Hypothesis,
and talking to US common men as though
we We're fools! If they agreed in their
theories and came up with solid front
| against Christianity, ! say perhaps they
might make some impression; but they
do not agree. Darwin charges upon Lam
arck, Wallace upon Cope, Herschel even
charged upon Ferguson. They do not
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they do not agree about embryOlOgy,
What do they agree about}
HersChCl wrote a whole chapter on what
he calls the Errors in Astronomy La
Place says that the moon was not put in
the right place that if it had been put
four times the distance from our world
there would have been more harmony in
the universe But Lionville comes W
just in time to prove that the Lord was
wise and put the moon in the right place
How many colOrs woven into the light
Seven, says Newton. Three, says David
Brewster. How high is the aurora DO
realise Two and half miles high, says
Las. One hundred and siXty-tiye miles
says Twinig. How far is the SIM from the
earth3 Seventy-siX million miles, says La
caille eigntytwo million miles, says Hum
boldt ninety million miles, says Hender-
son; one hundred and four million miles,
says Mayer. Only little difference Of
twenty-eight million miles! These men
say we do not agree in religion Do they
agree in science2 Have they come W
with solid front to assault our glorious
Christianity
Even mathematicians do not agree
Taylor's logarithms are found to have
faults in them. The French metric sys
tenn has wrong calculations, Talk abou
exact sciences They are ineXact. As fan
as with my little knowledge l have beer
able to explore, the only exact science i.
Christianity. There is nothing under
which you can so appropriately write
''Quod erat demonstrandum. "
Gentlemen of the jury have YOU agreed
upon your verdict?n the court or the
clerk says to the jury, having been out al
night, on coming in. Have you agreed
on your verdict" If they say yes, the
verdict is taken and recorded If they
say, NO, we have not agreed" they are
sent back to the jury-room. If one
juryman should say, Il think the man. is
guilty of murder" and another .iurymau
should say, Il think he is guilty OF
manslaughter," and another juryman
should say, Il think he is guilty of as
sault and battery with intent TO kill, the
judge would lose his patience and say
Go back to your room now, and make
up a verdict; agree on something
Well, my friends, there has been d
great trial going on for centuries and fol