Milford chronicle., 1893-09-15

D steamer, he makes more excitement thai
, all the 500 sane passengers who continue ii
ls the berths or on the decks, but does tina
stop the shipS Does that wreck all the 80
passengersf It makes great excitemen
z when man leaps from a platform or
a pulpit into inidelity, but does that hinder
: our glorious Bible from taking its millions
G into the skies? tell you inidelity is no
D halfas bold now as it used to be.
+ Do you suppose such things could be en-
acted now as were enacted in the days oi
z RObespierre, when a shameless woman was
elected to be goddess, and she was carried
on a golden chair to Il cathedral, and the
people bowed down to hera a divine being
E and burned incense before her-she to take
the place of the Bible, and of Christianity.
; and Of the Lord Almightv9 And while
that ceremony was going on the cathedral,
/ in the chapels and in the corridors adioin-
! ing the cathedral. scenes Of drunkenness
and debauchery and obscenity were enacted
such as the world had never seen. Could
/ such thing as that transpire nowf No,
sir. The police would swOop on it whether
In Paris or New York. Infdelityis is not
half as bold now as it used to be.
But say our antagonists, Christi
anity is falling back because science, its
chief enemy, is triumphing over it," Now,
/ deny that there is any war between
science and revelation. There is not a fact
in science that may not be made to har-
monize with the statements of the Bible.
So said Hugh Miller; 50 said Joseph Her (;
so said Professor Hitchcock; so said Pro
tessor Silliman; so said Professor Mitchell.
Joseph Henry. the leading scientist of
America, better known and honored in the
royal societies transatlantic than any other
] A1narinau lfaad and fIfaT a l,a1fo.re- "a, 4l,,,
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 yet believed the
] book of Joshua, the sun and moon stand
! ing still. Joseph Henry knew all the anat
I omy of man and fish and yet believed the
I 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 advoca-
cy Of Christianity because we differ in our
theology tell you we do not differ in
side the church in theology half as much
as they differ outside the church in sci
enee. II they reject our religion beS - 4
we differ on some minor points, we lnoS $
just as well rejectT epee because the s..
entists differ. Blu \ Nss can tell the
s Sps nos Ct 50 ip9s g. s2sp e sFiisisni5y bdsa8sg
these men Z discoveries have denA,eb otlvuN
and as far as I1s Of the body are uhsIer the &
war between telescope aifd teeseoBe.y sle 5 Ya Y
Leyden jar and Leyden jar, chemical ap-
paratus 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 over I
thrown by men who have different theories /
so 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, 81
notice that these young naturalists are
adopting as theories in science things which
have not passed under observation" j" Agas-
siz saw what we all see-that there are men
who talk very wisely who know but very
little, and that just as soon as a young
scientist finds out the difference between
the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a
beetle he begins to patronize the Almighty
and go about talking about culture as
though it were spelled c-u-l-c-h-a-r-cul-
chart
NO EXACT SCIENCES
It makes me sick to see these literary
fops going down the street with a copy of
Darwin under one arm and a case of trans
fixed grasshoppers and butterflies under
the other arm, talking about the Survival
of the Fittestn and Huxley "PrOtoplasm, p
and the 'Nebular Hypothesis, and talking
to us common men as though we were
fOolsl If they agreed in their theories and
came up with solid front against Christian
ity, l say perhaps they might make some ,
impression, but they donOt agree. Darwin {
charges upon Lamarck, Wallace upon
Cope. Herschel even charged upon Fergu- {
son. They do not agree upon the graduation 8
of the species; they do not agree about en- l
bryology What do they agree about?
Hersehel wrote a whole chapter on what }
he calls Errors In Astronomy" La Place i
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 j
have been more harmony in the universe s
But Lionville comes up just in time to t
prove that the Lord was wise and put the !
moon in the right place. How many colors {
woven into the lightS Seven, says Newton. L
Three, says David Brewster. How high is -
the aurora borealis? Two and half miles p
high says Lias. One hundred and sixty v
FIVE miles, says Twinig How far is the sun I
from the earths Seventy-six million miles, e
says Lacaille; 62000000 miles, says Hum
boldt; 10000, 600 miles, says Henderson; 1O4,-
300 900 miles, says Mayer Only little f,
of 28.OOOOOO milesl These men ii
say we do not agree in religion. Do they d
agree in science? Have they come up with Il
solid front to assault our glorious Chris &
sianityi b
Even mathematicians do not agree. Tay- "
or's lOgarithms are found to have faults I
N them. The French metric system has It
IL .1s.Es- NIL IL.
sncesl They are inexact. As FAR as with d
ny little knowledge have been able to ex- a
llore the only exact science is Christianity Z
There is nothing under which you can so 4
appropriately write, Quad erat demon Il
trandum." =
Gentlemen Of the jury, have you agreed =,
Ipon your verdict?" the court or the clerk
ays to the jury, having been out all night, q
N coming in. Have you agreed on your n
-erdict" If they say yes, the verdict is i
AIKEN and recorded. If they say, mo, we :. y
lave not agreed, " they are sent back to the 4
ury room. If one juryman should say, Il !,
hink the man is guilty of murder,n and l.
mother juryman should say, II think he a
s guilty Of manslaughter, and another =
uFyman should say, Il think he is guilty 9,
assault and battery with intent to KILL" b.
he judge would lose his patience and says Il
Go back to your room now and make up -
verdict. Agree on something"
Well, my friends, there has been a great /,
rial going on for centuries and for ages -
etween Skepticism, the plaintiff, versus =,
hristianity, the defendant. The scientists -
ave beenimpaneled and sworn on the jury. Il
hey have been gone for centuries, some Of ii
hem, and they come back, and we say, -,
Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed r. r.
pom a verdictY' They say. ''No, we have :,
OF agreed" Then we say, Go back for ~
w more centuries and then come in aud \,
e if you can agree, see if you can render :,
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y pLis9llsi - oiie Aoiiips court VINO @oulu OF
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