The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-09-15

element when a man leaps from plat
form or pulpit into infidelity; but
does that hinder our glorious Bible
| from taking its millions into the skies?
l tell you infidelity is not half as bold
| as it used 10 be.
Do you suppose such things could be
enacted now as were enacted in the
days of Robespierre, when a shameless
woman was elected to be goddess, and
she was carried on a golden chair to
cathedral, and the people bowed down
to her as divine being. and burned
| incense before her-she to take the
place of the Bible, and 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. Infidelity is not
half as bold now as it used to be-
But" say our antagonists. Chris
tianity is falling back because science,
its chief enemy, is triumphing over it !"
Now, deny that there is any war be-
| tween science and revelation There
| is not 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 Prot. Hitch
Prof. Mitchell
If the scientists of the day were all
agreed, and they came up with solid
front to attack our Christianity, per-
| haps they might make some impression
upon it: but they are not agreed. 1t is
often said that we religionists are fail
| ing in our advocacy OF Christianity be-
cause 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 in science.
Do you suppose that this Bible theory
bout the origin of life is going to be
overthrown by men who have different
theories-ffty different theories-about
the origin of life? And when Agassiz
comes out and puts both feet on the
doctrine of evolution. and says in re-
gard to many scientists, Il notice that
/ these young naturalists are adopting
as 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 scientist finds
! out the difference between the feelerS
of wasp and the horns of beetle, he
| begins to patronize the Almighty. and
( go about talking about culture as
| though it We're 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 case of
transixed grasshoppers and butterflies
under the other arm, talking about the
Survival of the Fittest," and ''Hux-
ley's Protoplasm," and the ''Nebular
! Hypothesis" and talking to us common
men as though we We're fools.
Herschel wrote a whole chapter on
what he calls the Errors in Astron-
omy." 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 up 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 Brew
ster How high is the Aurora Borealis?
Two and half miles high. says Lias.
One hundred and seventyfive miles,
SAYS Twiuig. How far is the sun from
the earth? Seventy-siX million miles,
says Lacaille: eighty-two million miles,
says Humbolds: ninety million miles
says Henderson,: one hundred and four
million miles, says Mayer. Only a lit
tie difference of tweuty-eight million
miles. These men say we do not agree
in religion. Do they agree in science?
Have they come up 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
system has wrong calculations Talk
about exact sciences. AS far as with
my little knowledge have been able
TO explore the only exact science is
Christianity.
Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed upon your verdict the court
or the clerk says to the jury. having
been out all night, on coming in 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 jurymau
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 some
thing"
Well, my friends. there has been
great trial going on for centuries, and
for ages between Skepticism, the plain
tiff, versus Christianity, the defendant
The scientists have been impaneled