Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-22
RAM5LINGS ALONG THE RE
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fury. it is impervious TO public opin-
ion," but bending it 10 the betteIment
of your readers. / have read with To-
terest the controversy between Pupil
and ''Steno." and feel like raising my
voice-imperfect though it may be-
in favor Of evolution and as against the
truth. reason and reliability of the
Bible.
My earliest recollection Of my father
was hearing him preach as Methodist
preacher. He was brought up in the
Methodist PATH (belief) that Pupil
pirates Of so glibly, but after years Of
thought and study, the faith OF a
Sulphurious he'll. eternal damnation,
salvation by faith, became revolving and
he evoluted into SwedenboTgian
religion. but could not stay there and
grew into the Universal faith. Yes.
evolution shows the work of good
intellect" and the stronger the intellect
the faster the evolution; hence we have
such men as Humoolf, Huxley, Oar
win, Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, our own
Lincoln, and many other ''moulders OF
men," Environment and education have
been, are, and always will be, ''mould-
ers of men," Let your faith be in
your fellow men (there Is no greater
god)-rather than place it upon the
very ridiculous and foolish accounts OF
the Creation of man. in Genesis,
which is on par with many other
moral? precepts, such as the Joshua
and the sun, Jonah and the whale. Lots
wife and one thousand and one "di-
vine' fish stories revealed in God s
holy word. Every intelligent farmer
knows personally of the evolution in
both animal and Vegetable life. This
earth is teeming full, inside and out,
with countless thousands of vegetable
and animal life, which only wants the
proper proportions of oxygen, hydro
gen, carbon and nitrogen-air, heat,
light and moisture-for development.
Without the proper proportions of these
inUls,ble gaSses no life can erist. Who
shall say that the life of man is but
invisible gas which cannot be de-
stroyed, but fills the life limit of this
earth?
anx ously look for Pupils analysis
of Steno's moulding proposition; which
imagine he dare not tackle.
think. Bro. Steno, that you are off
your base in not taking secular period
calls. For, by interchanging ideas we
get new ones-give and take-and
compare the faith within us, according
to our light-with others, thereby dis
seminate knowledge, reason, truth.
agree with Steno relative to the
Police News, Gazette and Northwestern
Mail, but ] go still fai Their and say that
they are models of polite, moral htera-
ture when compared with their book of
books. which is indisputable
One late news item illustrating this
goodness of God, Edward Dunbar, the
author of that pretty but sentimental
folly, There's Light in the Window
for thee, Brother" died at the city jail
at Coffey willie, Kansas, short time
ago, where he had applied for lodging
as a tramp. hungry, and drty--forgot-
ten by his fellow men. On the same
Sunday, the Lords dsy, in tae same
country, a millionaire, who once robbed
his own mother, and had driven thou
sands of working men to tramping. sat
on a cushioned seat in q magnificent
house of God, while the ascetic pastor
preached eloquently Of the goodness,
Justice and mercy of God; then the
grand pipe organ played and the sal
AIRED choir sang There's Light in
the Window for thee. Brother"
Will Pupil explain where it comes
AZ A1AOs 0bCnO lClClo " OuIlSlldu
science. What is that? Has Christianity
a single scientific discovery to her cred
itP Is there a single known science
that at some time in its history, has
not been prosecuted and condemned by
the so called Christian churches? r
re ad of foolish woman in Iowa, two
or three weels ago, who took spoon
full of rough on rats because she had
filth in that passage of the Holy word
that true believer could pick up pois-
onous serpents, drink deadly drugs.
etc and not suffer. Three doctors and
two stomach pumps could not work
fast enough to save her life. and she
was a Christian scientist. Ii this is
what you me5n by the term pass
My old father has often told me there
are two classes of people who do not
reason, the fool because he eaunot and