Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-11

come an iniidel and begins an attack on
| Christianity II makes great excitemeDt--of
course IL does, and people come TO the con.
olusion. weak minded Christians come 70
The conclusion, that everything Ia going
overheard because some man Of strong in
tcllect asssils Christianity.
ia man Jumps overheard from Cunard
I steamer, he makes more excitement than
! Ali the 800 sane passengers who continue In
] the berths or on the decks. but does that
stop the ahlpi Doc that wreck all the 800
passengsrsl It makes great excitement
when man leaps from platform or
pulpit into inhdelity, but does that hinder
our glorious Bible from taking It's millions
into the skiesi I tell you inadelity is not
! balfas bold now as It used TO be.
| DO you suppose such things could be en-
acted now az were enacted in the days OF
I Robespierre, when a shameless woman was
elected TO 10 goddess, and abe was Carried
{ on a golden chair 70 cathedral, and the
people bowed down 70 her a. divine being
and burned incense 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 the cathedral,
in the chapels and In the corridorB Adjoin'
ing tho cathedral. scenes OF drunkenness
luN 0hnANAAAAg
such as the world had never seen. Could
such thing as that transpire nowi No,
sir. The police would swoop on IL whether
in Paris or New York lundelity ia not
half as bold now Ms 1t used TO be,
BUT sny our antagonists Christi
anity is falling back because science, Its
chief enemy, is triumphing over IT," Now,
| deny that there II any war between
science and revelation. Thore is not q fact
In science that may not be made to her.
monte with the statements Of the Bible.
So said Hugh Miller; so said Joseph Her q;
so said Professor Hitchcock; so said Pro
fessor Silliman; 70 said Professor Mitchell.
Joseph Henry. the leading scientist OF
America, better known and honorcd IN the
royal societies transatlantic than any other
American, lived aud died believer In the
religion Of Jesus Christ. Joseph Henry
knew all the facts Of geology and yet be.
lioyed 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 Rnat-
omy Of man aud ilsh and yet believed the
book Of Jonah
II the scientists Of the day were oil
agreed and they came up with solid front
TO attack our Christianity, perhaps they
might make some impression upon IL, but
they are not agreed. Il is often said that
we fcliHionists are falling in our ndyocn-
cy OF Christianity because we differ in our
theology. tell you we do not differ iu-
side the church In theology half az much
MS they differ outside the church In sci
enee II they reject our religion because
we differ on some minor points, we might
Just rs we'll reject science because the sci
entists differ But as far rs eau tell the
war Of in1dcl science against Christianity
Is not so severe an IL used TO be-, because
these meu are Rntagonistic to each other,
and as far as can tell Il Is going to be u
war between telescope and telescope,
Leyden jar und Leydcn jar, chemical ap.
paFatus aud chemical apparatus They do
not agree on anything.
DO you suppose that this Bible theory
about the origin OF life 10 going to be over
thrown by men who have different theories
10 different theorlcs-about the origin Of
lifet Aud whom AgaSSiz comes out and
puts both feet on the doctrine Of evolution
and says in regard to many scientists. II
notice that these young naturallsts ara
adopting as theoriesin science things which
have not passed under observation" Agns-
giz saw what we all sec-thut there nre men
who talk very wisely who know but very
little, aud that just M soon as a young
scientist finds out the difference between
the foelers VI wasp and the horns Of a
beetle he begins TO patronize the Almighty
aud so about talking about culture AZ
though II were spelled c.u-l-e-h-ar--cul.
chRrl
10 EXACT SCIENCES.
II makes mo sick 10 see those literary
tops going down the street with a COPY OF
Darwin undor Quo arm and a case Of trans.
fixed graAshoppsrs and butterflies under
the other arm, talking about the Survival
Of the Fitteqtn aud HuXloy's "Protoplasn -
and the "Nebular iiypothess,n and talking
10 US common men as though we wer,
foolsl II they agreed IN their theories md
came up with solid front against Christian
ity, say perhaps they might make som,
impression, but they dol not ngree. Darwin
charges upon LAmarok Wallace upot
Cope. Herachel even charged upon Fergu
son They do not agree upon the graduation
OF the species; they do not agree about EN-
bryology, What do they agree Abouti
Hcrschel wrote u whole chapter on wha
he calls ERRORS In Astronomy" La plac,
Hays that the moon waa not put In the RICH
place, that II II had been put four time
the distance from our world there woul,
have been more harmony In the universe
but Lionvillc comes up lust In time /,
prove that the Lord was wise and put tn
moon In the right place How many color
woven into the lighti Seven. says Newton
Three says David Brewster How hlgh I
the aurora boreals' Two and half mile
high, says l.aA, One hundred and sixty
Ave miles, says Twlnig How fnr is thesul
from the carth' seventy.sir million mile.
SAYS lacaillp. 50 ono 600 r1i1ra AMY How,