Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-03-23

stay on the decks But the fact that
he jumps overboard-does that stop
the ship? Does that wreck the five
hundred passengers? 1t makes great
excitement when a man jumps from
the leeturing platform, or from the
pulpit, into infdelity; but does that
keep the Bible and the church from
carrying their millions of passengers
into the skies?
They say, these men, that science is
overcoming religion in our day. They
look through the spectacles of the in
fidel scientists, and they say: at is
impossible that this book can be true;
people are finding it out; tho Bible has
got to go overheard; science is going
to throw it overheard" Do you be-
lieve that the Bible account of the ORR
| gin of life will be overthrown by in
tidel scientists who have fifty different
theories about the origin of life? If
they should come up in solid phalanx,
all agreeing on one sentiment and one
theory, perhaps 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 de-
nominations of Christians-that
shows there is nothing in re-
! ligion." l have to tell you that
all denominations agree on the two or
three or four radical doctrines of the
Christian religion. They are unani-
nous 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 grass
hoppers and butterflies under the other
arm, telling about tho 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 wasp and the horns of
beetle, begin to patronize the AL
mighty; while Agassiz, glorious Agas-
sig, who never made any pretension
| to being Christian, puts both
his feet on the doctrine of evolu-
ton, and SAYS: II see that many
of the naturalists of our day are adopt
ing facts which do not bear observa-
ton, or have not passed under observa-
ton 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 agree on the graduation 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 farther from the earth than
it is now there would be more harmony
in the universe; but Lionvi!le 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 LAS. One hundred and
sixty-eight miles. says Twining. How
far is the sun from the earth? Seventy
six million miles, says Lacallc Eighty
two 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
up among themselves-not agreeing
on anything. They come and say nat
the churches af Jesus Christ are di-
vided 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
verdict, no two of them agree
on that verdict Gentlemen of the
jury, have you agreed on a verdict?'
asks the court or the clerk of the jury
as they come in after having spent the
whole night in deliberating. If the
jury say, Yes, 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 man
slaughter in the second degree" and
another man says, 81 think he was
guilty OF assault and battery with
intent to kill" the judge would say,
go back to your room and bring in a
verdict; agree on something that is no
verdict"
Here these in1del scientists have
empaneled themselves as jury to
decide this trial between infidelty,
the plaintiff, and Christianity, the de-
PENDANT, and after being out for centu-
ries they como in to render their YER
dict Gentlemen of the jury, have
you agreed on verdict? NO, no
Then 90 back fl another Eve hundred
years and delibcrato and agree on
something There is not a poor miser-
able wretch in the Tombs court to-
morrow that could be condemned by a
jury that did not agree on the verdict,
and yet you expect us TO give up our
glorious Christianity to please these
men who can not agree on anything
All! my friends. the church of Jesus
| Christ instead Of falling boclr 10 ON