The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16

gifts that adorned him. He wrote verse
well and published a volume or so of
poems. He wrote some very impressive
lines on his return to the faith. They
close with these sober. modest words:
20 may it be that, coming soon or late.
Thou still shal find thy soldier at the
gate,
Who then may follow the till sight
needs not to prove,
And faith shall be dissolved in knOwl-
edge Of thy love-"
Rev. DR.. Hoss, the able editor, says
in the Advocate OF Romanes and his
reverent lines:
THE citadel is found in the derths of
mans spirit. 1t is needful that some
should be found willing TO pace with
patient step h narrow line Of physi-
cal facts. But it is vastly more so
that Others should go into the holy
places of the heart, and explore their
mysteries. 1t is there especially that we
shall find God. Himself a Person, he
reveals his glory to other persons"
A man must either believe in God
or reject Him altogether. He must
either be an infidel and scoffer or ac-
cept the Christ, the Son of God, as
He is revealed in the Holy Scriptures.
Ilc Is III IIlIuuIc 6IOuilu. II Is 10 a.
cept or deny-to live or to perish. There
are but two places to which the i'm
mortal soul can go beyond the grave.
That applies to the life to come. There
is no middle way between believing
Christ as God and the Redeemer and
to reject Christ and deny III faith"
That applies to the life here and there
is no common Christian standing place
other than faith in the Messias, the
Christ Of History, the blessed Divine
Son. A man m conscientiously deny
the Divinity OF Christ, out he must
take the consequences here and here
after. He hat believeth not shall be
damned" That is the law and the tes-
timony. Mr.. Frederic Harrison, the
eminent English writer. and critic is
of the Positive philosophers. But on
New Years Day, 1897, he made an ad-
dress On THE Religious Reaction" He
said much for ar agnostic. Here is a
quotation and admission:
IAN increasing number OF men and
women are making up their minds to
wait till they find something more hu.
man and social han the cosmogony of
evolution, something to reverence more
tangible and ineligible than the I'M
movable, something more positive
than agnOSticism."
Evolutionistsha HAYES hiftedtheir ground
since Darwin began his first work. We
have shown this in several editorials
from time to time. The definition now
Of evolution is not Darwinian. It is
! defined now as development and
growth" Herbert Spencer, as did Hulk
ley and Tyndall to some extent, sur
renders much when he speaks of the
Infinite and Eternal Energy, out Of
! which all things proceed" That practi-
cally abandons Darwin's theory. The
able Christian Intelligencer, northern,
recognizes this and says we'll and
strikingly:
apparently the advocates Of the hy-
rotheSis Of vOlutiO have fallen back
pom development, affected by envi-
rcnment. That is just where we all
we're thirty years ago.. Tt is said that
there is a Theistic evolution, a Chris
tan evolution. But when it is eXanin-
ed it is found to be simply develop
ment under divine agency and a di-
vinely arranged environment. That in
PRODUCES an omnipotent, all-knowing
maker, creator, and ruler, and is in
full ~antagonism to Darwinian evolu-
ton, or any evolution the potency of
which is found in matter itself"
There is a wide protest among the
real Christian leaders of the religious
press, the men of brains and force and
independence and fidelity to truth and
plain speech, to the money-making
system of evangelism. The entire mer-