The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20

religion. And II you have not room III
you house Tor the obsequieS, what building
do you solicit? DO you say: Give me the
finest room in the slo,e.-:' Do you say:
Give that theater?' Do you say:
your house for the obsequies what building
where can | lay my dead for a little While
until we say prayer over it?' No, you
say: Give us the house OF God" And il
there is a song to be sung at the obsequies
what do you want? what does anybody
want? The Marseillaise hymn? God Save
the Queen? Our own grand national air?
No, they want the hymn with which they
sang their old Christian mother into her
last sleep or they want sung the sabbath
school hymn which their little girl sang the
last Sabbath afternoon she was out before
she got that awful sickness which broke
your heart. l appeal to your common
sense. You know me most endearing IN
Stitution on earth-the most popular lnsti-
tuition on earth today is the church of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
The infdes say: .Intidelity shows it's
successes from the fact that it is every
where accepted, and it can say what II
Will" Why, my friends intieity is not
half so blatant in our DAY as IT was IN me ne
days of our. fathers. Do you know that III
nounced nfidels in public authority ana
they could get any political position? Let
today declare himself ,antaGonsit1ic
to the Christian religion. and what Guy
wants him for mayor, what state wants
him for governor, what nation wants MIN
ly proclaim himself the enemy OF our 30
rious Christianity and he cannot get a ma
jority of votes in any state, IN any Guy III
DO YOU think that such a scene cQuld ne
enacted now was enacted IN the days s Oh
Robesperre when a ShamGGieSs a wc cnTred in
a golden chair to a cathedral Wh"re lhcen9c
was burned to her and people bowed COW w
before her as a divine being, she taxing ne We
place of the Bible, and God Almighty, WINE
in the corridor of that catheural We're GH-
ar+eJ eIch scenes of drunkenness and de-
haIichery and obscenity nave never peen
Witnessed? DO you believe Such a lIli5
could possibly occur in Chrlstenqoln rGo'E 0r
Nev York would Swoop on it. know IN
fidelity makes a good deal Oh TAX III oul
dav If is on the principle that II a man
Jump overheard from Cunaru St yea r0o
he makes more excitement than all the ooQ
nc0ple that stay on the decks but me 49, 49,
that he jumps overboard-does -d ma at, so1P
The shin? Does that wreck the 900 pasSei,
gers? il makes great excitement Wien a
man iumps from the lecturinS platform. or
f fitS i{bn nulpit into intdety but does that
Keen the Bible and the church from carry
ing their millions of passengers lil'o INC
Thev saw. these men, that science is over aver
coming religion in our day. They LOOK
through the spectacles OF tf i,,,oeeihe mat
his book can be true; people are 1lndinG?
it OUT the Bible has got to go DO
science is going to throw 1t oVernoardif No No
Won believe that the Bible account on etJnJi
ORIGIN of life will be overthroWn ny l a,ioa
scientists who have fifty different 'heoriTf33
9h0mt The origin of life? # they sspula
come up in solid phalanX, an agreelirb ~.
one sentiment and one t notod mt there
om l uo many differences of opinion in
side he church as outside the church, eco, feo-
PIE uFI 1o,or1m3tions of ChriStans-that
shows there is nothing in reHGl0n' o.el kay" on
10 tt ti > p o thrce or four radical doctrines
we NV, ,M cEristian religion They are unanl-
nous in regard to Jesus ChrlSt' anu tnc' ~
are unanimous in regarl to the divinity %
10 ScrintiIres How ie it on the other SIDE:
AIl split up-you cannot ma Two ol tnC.t
al
TlGr,ri ,,n'lar 0nn arm ana a case of trans
Darwin uluSI U,iT a. ana butterflies under
fixed grasshoppGiiSi 80 @bont the Survival
the othtI az az i'o,CI II1xiev $ protoplasm and
the nebular hypothesis. The fact IS MAJ finT
out the difference between the Ieele dE,in ~ !"
Iyasn and the horns OF Il beetle peEln i "
m m,tsP the Almighty Will, AgaS5.%,
E losi0u7 10 being a Christian puts bQth ms
fo"t on the doctrine of evolution, ana saS9:
~ ~ ee "" maj many of the naturalstS OF our
So So, .'i a,iontines facts which do not pear
opserE ;,, y, ,These men warning with e ~
serNat4,R1 a win warrin@ against LamarC T.,
Q tIGio WIRING against cope, even fth
echeI denouncng terguSon dlleS t 20
agree ABOUT anything; lmeS ~ me era
on embryology, DO nor agie0 d oi * nys
ON? ? Ierschel writes Whoiee, o cn"d{ eeIa.
he errors of astronomy. I'd a. az, II 81 =.
nat the moon was not pun ~ -, Smtv
Dl9ne He says that IL IL h 't tl,.,,5I If
Rap,r times further from the ealtn No "a; -
80 - there would be more harmony ~ tr
Universe: but LionVille comes W. in me
time TO prove that the moon We ttntten into
right place. How many COZ Wov,ton Three
the light? Seven say i9' Iio,T high is the
SAYS David l3reWSrret. IVY a half miles
Aurora Bore2hS! ln mT 'i" and sixty-eiRht
saws Las one mum! a,,, far, is the sun
miles, says TWlnuS low ,,ilIion miles
from the earth? 9tEr t 40 r1iIIion miles
saws I.acalle. fIShty-tWUII i1 Niles AVS
e@%[s humboldt. Ninety million Hl.lo9, ,iiIi||n
Henderson. one hundred ana 1itI LouI tfiarance
miles says Mayer. Only a ~ n ", enlit M
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