The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-05-12

| got to go overboard; science is goinf
| to throw it overheard" Do you be
| lieve that the Bible account o
the origin. of life will be over
thrown by infidel scientists whs
the origin of life? II 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 many different denomina
tions of Christians-that shows ther.
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, it makes me sick to see
these literary tops going along with
copy of Darwin under one arm and
case of transfixed grasshoppers and
butterflies under the other arm, telling
about the survival of the fittest," and
Huxley's protoplasn, and the nebular
! hypothesis. The fact is that some nat
uralists, just rs 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: 81 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
Lionvilie 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 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
and propose to render their verdict,
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:
Eyes, we have agreed" the verdict is
recorded; but suppose one of the jurv-
men says: 81 think the man was guilty
of murder" and another says: Il think
he was guilty of manslaughtef in the
second degree" and another man says:
II think he was guilty of assault and
l. .vc%o 10 y;1 he ind
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 Goodness 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
Win 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 man who
says he has not seen anything on the
subject or felt anything on the sub
i ject. VIII you take the testimony OF
people who have not or people who
have seen?
i You say morphia puts one to sleep.
You say in time of sickness it issery
useful. / deny it. Morphia never puts
ANYBODY to sleep, it never glleviates
pain. You ask me why say that.
have never tried it, / never took it.
deny that morphia is any soothing te
the nerves, or any quiet in times OF
sickness. / deny that morphia ever
put anybody to sleep; but here are
twenty persons who say they have al
/ felt the soothing effects of ply
sician's prescribing morphine. Whose
testimony will you take? Those
who took the medicine, OF
nv testimony, / never having
| taken the medicine? Here is the Cos
pei Of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for al
| trouble, the mightiest medicine thai
! ever came down to earth. Here is a
{ man who says: II don't believe in it
there is no power in it." Here art
other people who say: I'VE have founs
out its power and know its soothing
: influence; it has cured u.s." Who's
: testimony viii you take in regard +
: this healing medicine?