Connecticut western news., 1893-09-14


 Union would he carry; how many counties; how many wards in BrooklynP Not one.
 An, my friends, infdelity in this day is not half as bold as 1t used to be. If 1t comes now, it Is apt to come under the disguise of rhetoric or fantastic senti- mentality. know if 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 to the conclusion, weakminded Christians come to the con- clusion, that everything is going over board because some man of strong in- tellect assails Christianity.
 If a man jumps overheard from Gu nard 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 a man leaps from platform or a pulpit into infdelity, but does that hinder our glo- rfous Bible from taking it's millions into the skies? I tell you infdelity is not half as bold now as 1t used to be.
 DIVERSITY OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT.
 Do you suppose such things could be enacted now as were enacted in the days of Robespierre, when shameless wom- an was elected to be goddess, and she was carried on golden chair to ca thedral, and the people bowed down to her as a divine being and burned in- cense 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 ad- joining the cathedral scenes of drunken ness and debauchery 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 it, whether in Paris or New York Infdelity is not half as bold now as it used to be.
 "But," say our antagonists, Christi anity is falling back because science, it's chief enemy, is triumphing over it." 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 harmonize with the statements of the Bible. So said Hugh Miller; so said Joseph Henry; so said Professor Hitchcock; so said Professor Siliman; 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 be- hever in the religion of Jesus Christ. Joseph Henry knew all the facts of geol- ogy and yet believed the book of Gene sis. He knew all the facts of astronomy 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.
 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. It is often said that we religionists are failing in our advocacy of Christianity because we differ in our theology. I tell you we do not differ inside the church in theology half as much as they differ outside the church in science. If they reject our re- igion because we differ on some minor points, we might just as well reject science because the scientists differ, but as far as I can tell the war of infidel science against Christianity is not so se- were as it used to be, because these men are antagonistic to each other, and as far as can tell it is going to be war be- tween telescope and telescope, Leyden jar and Leyden jar, chemical apparatus @,,o Ia ,,of 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-50 different theories 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, "I 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 scien- tist 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 culture as though 1t were spelled c-u-l- c-h-a-r-culcharl
 It makes me sick to see these literary fops going down the street with a copy of Darwin under one arm and case of transfxed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, talking about the Survival of the Fittest," and Huxley's "Brotoplasm," and the s'Nebular Fly .pothesis," and talking to us common men as though we were fools! If they agreed in their theories and came up | with solid facts against Christianity, say perhaps they might make some i'm precision, but they do not agree. Dar- win charges upon Lamarck, Wallace | upon Cope. Herschel even charged up on Ferguson. They do not agree about the gradation of the species; they do not agree about embryology. What do they | agree about?
 | what he calls "Errors In Astronos1y. T 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 har- | mony 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 hghtP Seven, says Newton. | Three, says David Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis? Two and halt | miles high, says Lias. One hundred and sixty five miles, says Twinig? How far | is the sun from the earth? Seventy six million miles, says Lacaille; 82,000, ,00C miles, says Humboldt; 9O,O00,00 miles says Henderson; 104, ,O00, ,000 miles, says Mayer. Only little difference of 2S,. ,000 milesi These men say we dc not agree in religion. Do they agree in sciencep Have they come up with solid front to assault our glorious Christian. ity?
 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 seiencesl They are inexact