The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-13

how many states of the Union will he
carry: how many counties; how many
| wards I'm Brooklyn? Not one.
/ From Christianity to InndeIIty.
All. my friends, infdelty In this day Is
not half as bold as IT used to be. If 1t
comes now. IL is apt to come under the
disguise of rhetoric or fantastic senti-
mentality. I know II man with great
intelligence does become an infidel and
begins an attack on Christianity It
makes great excitement-of course It
| does-and people come 10 the conclusion
| -weak-minded Christians come to the
conclusion-that everything Is going
| overheard because some man OF strong
intellect assails Christianity.
II a man jumps overheard from a
| Cunard steamer he makes more excite
| ment than all the 500 sane passengers
/ who continue In the berths or on the
| decks. but does that stop the ship2 Does
that wreck all the 500 passengers? It
makes great excitement when n man
leaps from a platform or pulpit into
| infdelity. but does that hinder our glori-
Gus bible from taking It's millions into
| the skies. I tell you infidelity Is not
half as bold now as II used to be.
Do you suppose such things could be
| enacted now as were enacted In the days
Il Oh lkDbeSpleTTGt Nntn n snhtleleSS Wpflldu
| was elected TO be goddess, and she was
| carried on a golden chair TO a cathedral
| and the people bowed down to her as a
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 the cathedral, I'm the chap
/ els and I'm the corridors adjoining the
| cathedral scenes OF drunkenness and de-
| bauchery and obscenity were enacted
such as the world had never seen. Could
such a thing as that transpire now?
| No. sir The police would swoop on II,
/ whether in Paris or New York. Infidel-
| ity is not half as bold now as IL used to
/ be.
But" say our antagonists, christian
| ity is falling back because science, its
chief enemy, Is triumphing over It,
| Now. 1 deny that there Is any war be-
| tween science and revelation. There Is
/ not a fact in science that may not be
made 10 harmonic with the statements
| OF the bible. So said Hugh Miller: so
| said Joseph Henry; so said Prof. Hitch
| cock; so said Prof. Silllman; so said
| Prof. 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 be-
/ lever 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 as
/ tronomy and yet believed the book OF
| Joshua. the sun and moon standing still
| Joseph Henry knew all the anatomy Of
man and fish and yet believed the book
| Of Jonah.
II 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
| IL, but they are not agreed. 1t Is often
said that we religionists are falling in
| our advocacy of Christianity because we
/ differ in our theology. / tell you we do
/ not differ inside the church In theology
/ half as much as they differ outside the
/ church I'm science. If they reject our re-
| ligion because we differ on some minor
| points, we might just as well reject
| science because the scientists differ. But
as far as l can tell the war OF infidel
| science against Christianity Is not so
severe as IL used TO be, because these
| men are antagonistic to each other, and
as far as ! can tell 1t is going 10 be a
war between telescope and telescope, Ley
den jar and Leyden Jar chemical appar-
atus and chemical apparatus. They do
not agree on anything.
| Do you suppose that this Bible theory
/ about the origin of life is going TO be
| overthroWn by men who have different
! theories-fifty different theories about the
origin OF life? And when Agassiz comes
| out and puts both feet on the doctrine
| of evolution and says in regard to many
| scientists, IT notice that these young
naturalists are adopting as the theories
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 little,
| and that just as soon as young scien-
| fist finds out the difference between the
| feelers Of a wasp and the horns of q
| beetle he begins to patronize the AL
mia rf1f n hCFr f1@ al
ture as though it were spelled Gull
| c-h-a-r-culchar!
No Exact Sciences.
It makes me sick to see these literary
| tops going down the street with a copy
of Darwin under one arm and a case of
| transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies
under the other arm, talking about the
Survival of the Fittest" and Huxley's
| "Protoplasm," and the "Nebular Hy-
| pothesis," and talking to us common men
as though we were foolsl If they agreed
in their theories and came up with solid
front against Christianity, 1 say perhaps
| they might make some impression, but
they do not agree. Darwin charges upon
| Lamarck, Wallace upon Cope. Herschel
even charged upon Ferguson. They do
not agree upon the graduation Of the spe-
/ cies; they do not agree upon embryology
| What do they agree about?
| Herschel wrote a whole chapter on
i what he calls Errors in Astronomy
| La Place says that the moon was not
! put in the right place; that If ii had
| been put four times the distance from
1 our world there would have been more
| harmony in the universe. But Lionville
/ comes up just in time to prove that the
| Lord was wise and put the moon in the
| right place. How many colors woven in
| to the light? Seven, says Newton Three.
| says David Brewster How high is the
/ aurora borealis? Two and a half miles
/ high, says LAS. One hundred and sixty
/ five miles, says Twinig. How far is the
/ sun from the earth? Seventy-six million
miles, says Lacaille; 81. 900 900 miles. says
| Humboldt: 90 900 900 miles, says Hender-
| son; 104, 600 miles, says Mayer. Only
| little difference of $1,000 900 miles II
| These men say we do not agree I'm re-
| ligion. Do they agree in science? Have
| they come up with solid front to assault
| our glorious Christianity?
/ Even mathematician do not agree
| Taylor's logarithms are found to have
faults in them. The French metris sys-
TEN has wrong calculations. Talk about
| exact sciencesl They are inexact AS
| far as with my little knowledge l have
been able to explore the only exact
science is Christianity. There is moth
| ing under which you can so appropri-
ately write, Quad erat demonstran-
| dunn
Gentlemen of the jury, have you
| agreed upon your verdict7" the court or
| the clerk says to the jury, having been