The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-03-30

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the origin of life will be over
thrown by infdel scientists wis
have fifty different theories abou'
/ the origin of life? If they should
come up in solid phalanx, all agreeing
on one sentiment and one theory, 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 omany different denomina
tions of Christians-that shows ther
I is nothing in religion. 1 have to tel
you that all denominations agree Oh
the two or three or four radical doc,
4 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, it makes me sick to see
i these literary fops going along with a
4 copy of Darwin under one arm and a
case of transfxed grasshoppers and
! butterflies under the other arm, telling
about the survival of the fttest," and
/ Huxley's protoplasn, 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 a 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 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 Twining. How far is the sun
from the earth? Seventy-six million
miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million
miles, says Henderson. One hundred
and four million miles, says Mayer.
Only little difference of twenty-eight
million milesI 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
and propose to render their verdict,
no two of them agree on that ver-
diet. 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 jurv
men says: 81 think the man was guilty
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: go back to your room and
bring in verdict; agree on something;
that is no verdict"
Yonder is an aged Christian after
fifty years experience of the power
of Godliness in his soul. Ask this man
whether, when he buried his dead, the
religion of Jesus Christ was not a con.
ISOLATION. Ask him if through the
long years of his pilgrimage the
! Lord ever forsook him. Ask him
when he looks forward to the
future, if he has not peace and joy
and a consolation the world can not
take away. Put his testimony of what
he has seen and what he has felt oppo-
site to the testimony of a man who
saws he has not seen anything on the
subject or felt anything on the sub
| ject. Will you take the testimony OF
people who have not or people who
bhave seen? Gak
| You say morphia puts one to sleep.
You say in time of sickness it is very
useful. / deny it. Morphia never puts
any body to sleep, it never alleyiates
pain. You ask me why say that. l
have never tried it, never toob it. |
denv that morphia is any soothing to
| the nerves, or aI5 quiet in times of
sickness. / deny that morphia ever
put ANYBODY to sleep; but here are
/ twenty persons who say they have all
| felt the soothing effects of a ply
sician's prescribing morphine. Whose
testimony will you take? Those
who took the medicine, or
nv testimony. / never having
| taken the medicine? Here is the Cos
| pel of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all
htrouble, the mightiest medicine that
I ever came down to earth. Here is a
man who says: II don't believe in it,
there is no power in it" Here are
/ other people who say: I'VE have found
out its power and know its soothing
| influence; it has cured us" Whose
testimony wi II you take in regard to
| this healing medicine?
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
/ / take mothers instruction?
am going to die now; / must
have this matter decided" That man.
who had been loud in his infdelity.
said to his dying daughter: Ny dear,
YOU had better take your mothers re.
/ Iioinn-r Nv advice is the same to You.