The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-03-23

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have 80 different theories about the or.
igin of lifea If they should come up in sol.
Id phalanz, all agreeing upon one senti.
ment and one theory, perhaps Christian.
ty might be damaged, but there are not
80 many differences of opinion inside the
church as outside the church.
THR FITTEsT SURVIVES.
People used to say, "There are so many
different denominations 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
doctrines of the Christian religion. They
are unanimous in regard to Jesus Christ,
and they are unanimous in regard to the
divinity of the Scriptures. How is it on
the other side? All split up-you cannot
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 transfxed 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 naturalists 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 Agas-
siz, who never made any pretension to
being Christian, puts both his feet on
the doctrine of evolution and says, 81
see that many of the naturalists of our
day are adopting facts which do not bear
observation or have not passed under OBJ
servation." These men warning against
each other-Darwin warning against La
marche, Wallace warning against Cope,
even Herschel denouncing Ferguson.
They do not agree about anything.
They do not agree on embryology, do
not agree on the graduation of the spe-
cies: 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
farther 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 au-
rora 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 Lacalle. Eighty-two million
miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million
miles, says Henderson. One hundred
and four million miles, says Mayer-only
little difference of 29,00O,000 miles!
All split up among themselves-not
agreeing on anything. They come and
say that the churches of Jesus Christ are
divided on the great doctrines. All
united they are, in Jesus Christ, in the
divinity of the Scriptures. While they
come up and propose to render their ver-
dict, no two of them agree on that YER
dict.
Gentlemen of the jury, have you
agreed on verdict" asks the court or
the clerk of the jury as they come in aft
iberating. If the jury say, ayes, we
have agreed" the verdict is recorded,
but suppose one of the jurymen says,
81 think the man was guilty of murder"
and another says, 81 think he was guilty
of manslaughter in the second degree"
and another man says, II think he was
guilty of assault and battery, with in
tent to KILL" the judge would say: go
back to your room and bring in a YER
dict. Agree on something. That is no
verdict"
INFIDELITY AT A sTANDSTILL.
Here these infidel scientists have i'm |
paneled themselves as jury to decide
this trial between infidelity, the plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and |
after being out for centuries they come
in to render their verdict. Gentlemen |
of the jury, have you agreed on a ver-
dict? No, no. Then go back for another |
500 years and deliberate and agree on
There is not poor, miser-
able wretch in the Tombs court tomor-
row that could be condemned by jury |
that did not agree on the verdict, and yet |
you expect US to give up our glorious
to please these men who
cannot agree on anything.
All, my friends, the church of Jesus
Christ, instead of falling back, is on the
1 am certain it is on the adj
vance. o Lord God, take thy sword
from thy thigh and ride forth to the VIC
;ory!
1 am nightly encouraged because /
ind among other things that while this
Christianity has been bombarded for
infdelity has not destroyed
,ne church, or crippled one minister, or
lprooted one verse of one chapter of all
,he Bible. The church all the time get
ing the victory and the shot and shell
If its enemies nearly exhausted.
I have been examining their ammuni-
ion lately. 1 have looked all through
heir cartridge boxes. They have not in
the last 20 years advanced one new idea.
They have utterly exhausted their am
in the battle against the church
and against the Scriptures, while the
sword of the Lord Almighty is as keen
rs it ever was. We are just getting our
troops into line. They are coming up in