The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-09-21
over did and eelipses all other institu-

IacI tCnaG lnndellty IS holder now and
more blatant than it ever was. | DENY
Cl.e statement. Intideltv is not near so
bold now as il was IN the days Of our
fathers and grandfathers. There were
times in this country when men who
were openly and above board ulidcl and
antagonlstlc to Christianity could he
elected to high Office. Now let some
man wishing high position in the state
proclaim himself the foe of Christianity
and on mlidcl, how may states Of the
Union Will he carry; how many cOun-
Ties; how many wards in BROOKLYN? Not
one.
All! my friends. inlilelity in this dav
ls not half as bold as il used to be, If
II comes now, it is apt to cOiuo under
the disguise Ofrhetoric or fantastic sonti.
mentality. know if man with great
intelligence does become an nlidcl aud
tegins an attack on Christianity it makes
great eXcitement-OtC course 1t does, and
people come TO the conclusion, weak
minded Christians come to the concu-
SION, that everything is going owe board
because some man OF strong intellect as
s,tils Christianity.
IL man jumps overheard from a Cum
ara steamer, he makes more excitement
than all the 500 sane passengers wno
continue i'll the hcrths or on the decks,
but does that stop The ship? Does that
wreck all the 500 passengers? 1t makes
great excitement when man leaps from
Il platform or Il pulpit into iuIidclity,
but does that hinder our glorious Bible
trom taking its millions into the skies?
tell You inlidelity is not halt as bold
now as it used to be.
DO VOu suppose such things could be
enacted now rs were enacted in tho DAYS
OF ltobespCrre, when shameless wO-
man was elected to be goddess, and she
was carried on golden chair to n ca
thcdral, and the people bowed down to
her as divine beng and burned incense
before hcr-sho to take the place Of the
Blblc, and of Christianity, and Of tho
L0rd Almighty? Aud while that cerc-
mony was going on the cathedral, III the
chnpcls and i'll the corridors adjoining
the cathedrnl, scenes Of drunkenness
ana debauchcry and obscenity were ca
acted such as the world had never seen.
Could such thin" as that trauspirc now?
No, sir. The police would ,woOp On it
whether IN Paris or New York. l.:
fidelity ls not half as boz now as it
used to be.
"But," say our antagonists, "Chrleli.
i,nitv is falling back because science, lis
chcf ancmsY, is triumphluy over it,"
Now, l deny that there is any war be-
Tween science and revelation. There is
not TACT in science that may not he
made to harmonic with the statements
)t the Bible. So sad Hugh Miller; so
said Joseph Henry; 80 said Professor
Hitchcock; so said Professor Silliman;
so said Professor Mitchell.
Josph Henry, the leading scientist nt
America, better known and h0norcd in
the royal societies transatlantic than
any other American, lived and died Il
believer in the religion Of Jesus Christ.
Joseph Henry knew all the facts OF
geology and yet believed The book OF
icncsis. lie knew all the facts OF as.
ronomy and yet believed the book of |
Joshua, the sun and moon standing still |
Joseph Henry knew all the anatomy of |
nan and fish and yet Lcllcvcd the book
# Jonah.
If the scientists Of the day were all
greed, and they came up with solid
:ont TO attack our Christianity, perhaps
hey might make some impression upon
,, but they are not agreed. II is often
ald that we liyionists are failing in
nr advocacy of Christianity because
G differ in our theology. | tell you =,
g do not differ inside the church in
zoology half as much as they differ out. p
lie the church in science. II they re-
ct our religion because we d;ncr on II
me minor points, we might Just as t
'll reject science because the scientist
icr. Bat as lar as can tell the war v
inhdel science against Christianity is v
" 30 severe as it used 10 be, because t
csc men arc antagOnjstic to each other. s
d as far as | can tell it is gOn. tD be II
var between telescope and telescope, L
'ydcn jar and I2ydcn jlf, c hcmical y
paratus and chemical apparatus. They !.
not aGtcc on anything. =
DO you suppOsc that this Bible theory {"
out the origin of life is going to be over T.
own by men who have different the
es---5O different theorics-about the t.
GIN OF ?ic2 And when Agassiz comes [
and puts both feet on the doctrine e
evolution and says in regard TO many
entlsts, 81 notice that these young y
turahsts are adopting as theories in D
Icncc things which have not passed Il
der observation" Agassiz saw what n
all scc--that there are men who |
|ow but very little, and that just rs q C
llnG scientist finds, out the difference t.
tween the tccIer8 of wasp and the
rms ot beetle he begins to patronizc t.
0 Almighty and go about talking +
out culture as though it were spelled /
!. I-c-h.a-r--culchar!
| makes me sick to see these literary il
- gong down the street with Il copy t
Darwin under one arm and case Of v
nsliXcd Grasshoppcrs and butterflies |
der the other arm, talking about the Z
survival of the Fittest" and IIuXley's
and the "Nebular Uy- :
thesis" and talking to us common y
IN as though We were fools! If they v
reed In their theories and came up c
tn solid front against Christianity, | Y
Y perhaps they might make some inn c
esslon, but they do not agree. Darwin d
argos upon Lamarck, Wallace upon y
'pe. Herschel even charged upon t
'rguson. They do not agree upon the /
adatiOn of the sDeCies: thew do not ]