Democratic messenger., 1894-03-24

be overthrown hy lniiiel scientists whI
have 10 different theories about the or
igin of lif,: Ii they should come up i'll sol
Ill phalanX, all agreeing upon one senti
ment AMI one theory, perhaps Christiani
" might bc damaged. but there are No
So many differences of opinion inside til,
church as outside the church.
THE FITTEST SURVIVES.
People used 10 say, There are so man,
different Denominations of Christians
that shows there is nothing in religion.
! have To tell Won that all denomination,
agree on thu wo or three. -four radica
doctrines OF the Christian religion. They
are unanimous III regard To Jesus Christ
and they are unanimous in regard Ia III,
divinity of the Scriptures. How is ii oi
the other side: All split upon cannot
find two of them alike. Oh, il makes IN,
fick Ia see these literary fops going along
with copy of Darwin under one arm
and case of transiixed grasshoppers and
butterflies under the other arm. tellin.
about thes survival of the fittest," and
Huxley's frotoplasm. and the nebulal
hypothesis.
The fact Is that some naturalists just
as soon AS they find out the liiferenc,
between the fcelers of wasp and the
horns of beetle begin to patroniZe til,
Almighty. while Agas>iz, glorions Agas
siz. who never made any pretension I,
being Christian. puts both his feet on
the doctrine of evolution and says, 81
see that many of the naturalists of oui
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 Herschcl 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 OH: 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
farther from the earth than il is now
there would be more harmony i'll the
time to prove that the moon was put i'll
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: SeveiNy-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
II little difference of as,O0O, 900 miles!
All split up among themselves not
agreeing on anything They come and
say that the churches of Jesus Christ are
divided "n the great doctrines. All
united they are. III Jesus Christ. i'll the
divinity of the Scriptures. While they
come up and propose to render their YER
diet, no two of them agree on that YER
dict.
Gentlemen of the jury, have You
agreed ON a rdict:" asks the court or
the clerk of the jury rs they come in aft.
er having spent the whole night i'll de.
liberating. If the jury say, ''Ies, we
have agreed" the verdict is recorded,
but suppose one of the juryuen says,
II think the man was guilty of murder. y
and another says, Il think he was guilty
of manslaughter i'll 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 10 your room and bring in yer.
diet. Agree ON something. That is II,
verdict"
INFIDELlyY At 4 STANDSTIII.
Here these iniidel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as jury to decide
this trial between iniidelity, the plain
tiff, and Christianity. the defendant, and
after being ont for centuries they comt
in TO render their verdict. Gentlemen
of the jury, have you agreed on a Yer.
dict: No, no. Then go back for another
500 years and deliberate and agree on
something. There is not poor, miser-
able wretch i'll the Tombs court tomor.
row that could be condemned 10y jury
that did not agree on the verdict, and YET
You expect us to give MP our gloriou:
Christianity 10 please these men VIII,
cannot agree on anything.
All, my friends. the church of Jesu.
Christ, instead of falling back. is on tn,
advance. am certain ii is on the ad
vance. q Lord God, take thy SWORD
from thy thigh and ride forth to the vic
tory!
l am nightly encouraged because
find among other things that while thi:
Christianity has been bombarded fol
centuries iniidelity has not destroyed
one church, or crippled one minister, oi
uprooted ono verse of one chapter of al
the Bible. The church all the time get
ting the victory and the shot and shel
of its enemies nearly exhausted.
l have been examining their ammuni
ton lately. ] have looked all through
their cartridge boxes. They have not il
the last 20 years advanced one new idea
They have utterly exhausted their am
munition III the battle against the churcl
and against the Scriptures, while III,
sword of the Lord Almighty is as keen
as il ever was. We are just getting oul
troops into line. They are coming up il
companies, and i'll regiments. and i'll bri
gades, and You will hear shout aftel
90 planned 10 erecl a arst o2i'l'1
lou>e at the beach, hut were deferred
" the lack of suitable facilities for
'uick transit. Ii is said the project
ill he shortly revived.
FRIENDSHIP.