The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-12

enacted now as were enacted in the days
of Robespierre, when Il shameless woman
was elected to be goddess, and she was
carried on golden chair to a cathedral,
and the people bowed down to her as Il
divine being, and burned incense before
her--she to take the place Of the Bible,
and of Christianity, and Of the Lord AL
mighty? And while that ceremony was
going on in the cathedral, in The chapes,
and in the corridors adjoining the cathedral,
scenes of drunkenness and debauchery
anu obscenty enacted such as the world
had never seen. Could such Il thing as that
transpire now? No, sir The police would
sWoop on it.. whether in Paris or New
York lnfidelity is not half as bold now
as it used to >be.
But" say our antagonists, "Christanity
is failing back because science Its chlel
enemy, is triumphing over 1t. Now. L
deny that there lis any war between science
and revelation. There is not a fact i'll science
that may not be made to harmonic with
the statements of the Bible. So said Hugh
Miller SO said Joseph Henry, so said Pro
fessor Hitchcock, so said Professor Sill
man. 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 believer in the
religion of Jesus Christ. Joseph Henry
knew all the facts of geology, and yet be
lieved the Book of Genesis lie knew all
the facts of astronomy, and let Beloved 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 II; put
they are not agreed. 1t IS oIten sald 'hat
we religionists are failing 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 churcn III
science. If they reject religion because
we differ on some minor points, we might
inst AS we'll reject science because the
Scientists differ but. as lar as l can zen
the war of infidel science against CIlrlS S
anity is not rs severe as IL lSeu " ~
other: and, us far as | can tell, 1T Is eolhs
IN hn q war between telescope and telescope.
Levdcn Jar and Leyden jar cheiiil IN tpPt'
rotus and chemical apparatus. Ihey 10
not agree on anything. ~. phi, 4boorr
Do you suppose that TINS bln i, t tn NY
about the origin of life is gong 10 De
overthrown by men who nave 'Hiiei tl
theories-ffty different theories-aooul .ne
origin of life? And when ASaSSlZ co I
ont and nuts both feet on the aoc-
t tr;no Of evou,ion. and says in regard 10
many scientists, II notice that these youhS
nnturalists are adopting as thcolles IN ~
ance things which have not paSeeo unu III
lIi,1nrvnfI4n." Agassz saw what we an
op'oi +hnt there are men who talk very wise
w who know but very little, and tha1 Jus
~ soon as a young scientist hilis
out the difference ,,-, pa'"e and the the
fceers of a wasp al,, tho the
horns of beetle. he begins to patfohlze tiie
ALMIGHTY. and 90 about talking about cui-
t,,nn 80 thourh if were spelled c-u-l-c-h-a-r
II makes me sick to sec these literary
fons going down the street with copy OF
"Darwin'' under one arm ana a case OIL
Il 1lItt % IL
transtiXed grasShopperS ana put'e ., su uin-
der the other arm talking about the sur
vjyal of the FittcSt' and Huxley Proto-
nIasm." and the ''Nebular Hypothesis, ana
talking to us common men as lhOu@h we
were fools. If they agreed IN their theories
and came up with solid front against Chlls-
1innity | say perhaps they might make
some impression; but they do not agree.
Darwin charges upon Lamarck, Wallace
mon Cope Hersch9 even charged upon
tprguson They do not agree about the
graduation of the species; they DO not
agree about embryoloSy. What DO they
agree about!
liersche wrote a whole chapter on what
he calls the Errors in A-ronomy.' La
plscr says that the moon was not put IN
the right place; that If it had been put tour
times the distance from our world, there
would have been more harmony in the
universe. But Lionyie comes up just in
time to prove that the Lord was wise, and
nut the moon in the right place. How
many. .nInr>. woven INTO the light! Seven
'a. \.u,tnn ,rhrre saws David brewster,
1d, XXX - thn nnrHr, hornoIis2 Two
iio" 49, ,;,o Mol, s,,', las One h,,n-
Ii'i , " i,'i' 'rr,.f,7 ,ni,as I've I>yini,r
tiox fa, is tl,. SIM from the earth? Sey-
,t.Ns;x million miles saws I,aSailie: $1,000
,a,0 mics s,vs iIumboidt; 80. OON, 900 miles,
onv. t(endarson. 1O4NEjUOO miles. saws
WaTo. DnI, d, little difference of 2S. 900
nnu ,iiiay1 ii'basn mon snv we do not agree
Wv ,'ii,, 10 thn,, 1grna in scrnceY
~ ~ i'h1 80, ,,, wv ,,inh so1;d 'front.' tn
rave 'hGS IJniG ~p r ",G,.
Assault our s"l iVuH 81 - '",'''H ,r,
Even ma i'i' ~" '' W t ftt
loE i'os"t w i3 "ie i'u''W ~ l'Ii,"
III them. ne L ititi, n'c'il' H3St'nl mas
wrong OCCUPATIONS: ialk apouL exact
sciences. Ihey are lheAact' As lar as Wlth
my little Knowledge nave been ablc TO
explore. the only exact scleAce Is Chris
tlanltE. There is nothing under which
you can 40 appropriately write, "luod erat
demonStrandum.
"Gentlrmen Of the Jury. have Won agreed
,rpon your verdict" the court or the clerk
savs to the Jury. having been out an might
ON coming in. Have YOU agreed on Your
rnrIlict?' If they saw YES. the verdict Is
ta;tnn .nJ rncortied IF they say NO we
E,va not sorned thnv arr semi hoclT to tho