The Bossier banner., 1894-05-03
NUMBER 10.

was burned to her, and people bowed
down before her as to divine being, she
taking the place of the Bible and God
Almighty, while in the corridor of that
cathedral were enacted such scenes of
drunkenness, and debauchery, and OBJ
scenity as has never been wit
messed. Do you believe such
thing could possibly occur in Chris
tendon to-day? No, sir. The po-
lice, whether of Paris or New
York, would swoop on it. I know in
| fidelity makes a good of talk in our
day. It is on the principle that if
man jump overheard from a Cunard
steamer he makes more excitement
than all of the five hundred people
that stay on the decks. But the fact
that he jumps overheard does that
| stop the ship? Does that wreck the
| five hundred passengers? 1t makes
great excitement when a man jumps
from the lecturing platform or from
the pulpit into infdelity; but does
that keep the Bible and the church
from carrying their millions of passen-
gers into the skies?
They say, these men, that science is
overcoming religion in our day. They
| look through the spectacles of the in
fidel scientists, and they say: 1T is inn
possible that this book can be true;
people are finding it out; the Bible has
got to go overheard; science is going
to throw it overheard" Do you be-
lieve that the Bible account of
the origin of life will be over
thrown by infidel scientists who
have fifty different theories about
the origin of life? If they should
come up in solid phalanx, all agreeing
on one sentiment and onetheory, per-
haps Christianity might be damaged;
but there are not so many differences
of opinion inside the church as outside
the church. People used to say,
there are so many different denomina-
tions of Christians-that shows there
is nothing in religion" / have to tell
you that all denominations agree on
| the two or three or four radical doc
trines of the Christian religion. They
| are unanimous in regard to Jesus
| Christ, and they are unanimous
in regard to the divinity of the Scrip
lures. How is it on the other side? All
split up-you can not find two Of them
| alike. Oh, 1t makes me sick to see
these literary fops going along with
copy of Darwin under one arm and
case of trans6xed grasshoppers and
butterflies under the other arm, telling
about the survival of the fittest," and
Huxley's protoplasm, and the nebular
| hypothesis. The fact is that some nat
| uralists, just as soon as they find out
| the difference between the feelers of a
wasp and the horns of beetle, begin
| to patronize the Almighty; while
| Agassiz, glorious Agassiz, who never
made any pretention to being Chris
tian, puts both his feet an the doctrine
| of evolution, and says: II see that
many of the naturalists of our day are
adopting facts which do not bear OBJ
servation." These men warning with
each other; Darwin warning against
Lamarche, Wallace warning against
Cope, even Herschel denouncing Fer
guson. They do not agree about any
thing. They do not agree on embry-
ology, do not agreee on the degradation
of the species. What do they agree
on? Herschel writes a whole chapter
on the errors of astronomy. La Place
declares that the moon was not put in
the right place. He says that if it had
been put four times further from the
earth than it is now there would be
more harmony in the universe; but
Lionville comes up just in time to prove
| that the moon was put in the right
place. How many colors woven into
the light? Seven, says Isaac Newton.
Three, says David Brewster. How
| high is the Aurora Borealis? Two
and half miles, says Lias.
One hundred and sixty-eight miles,
says rwining. How far is the sun
from the earth? Seventy-six million
miles, sags Humboldt Ninety million
miles, says Henderson. One hundred
and four million miles, says Mayer.
Only little difference of twenty-eight
million miles! All split among them
selves-not agreeing on anything.
They come and say that the churches
| of Jesus Christ are devided on the
great doctrines All united they are,
in Jusus Christ, in the divinity of
the Scriptures; while they come up
ana propose 10 TenOeF LlelT VeTulcbs
no two of them agree on that ver-
dict Gentlemen of the jury, have
you agreed on a verdict?" asks the
court or the clerk of the jury as they
came in after having spent the whole
night in celebrating. If the jury say:
"Yes, we have agreed" the verdict is
recorded; but suppose one of the jur"-
men says: 81 think the man was guilty
of murder" and another says: Il think
he was guilty of manslaughter in the
second degree" and another man says:
II think he was guilty of assault and
battery with intent to kill" the judge
would say: $50 back to your room and
bring in verdict; agree on something;
that is no verdict"
Col. Ethan Allen was famous in
fdel in his day. His wife was very
consecrated woman. The mother in
structed the daughter in the truths OF
Christianity. The daughter sickened
and was about to die, and she said
! to her father: Father, shall
: take your instruction? or shall