The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-01-20

marked IN every diagnosis. "Chrstianity has
tailed; let 1t get out of the way and allow sci
ence chance 10 redeem the world,' says one
voluminous writer. The volume before us is
along the same lines. but the novelty is that
| 1t Is by WOMAN in this case VINO proclains
rerselt "a believer in the sanctity OF science
1t is fortunate for the purity and well being
of the world that few women boast of then
ATHEISM or agnost1cism. AS a class none has
been so uplifted, rehabilitated, and made tc
NIL so grand place by the pure teachings OF
the man of Galilee, as have the women. Travel
to heather lands, semi-civilized, Buddhis-
tic, or Mohammedan countries, and note
facts as they exist, and they are so over
Whe]ming on that point as to silence the
tongues of any but the thoughtless or the vi.
clous. 1t has not been heathenism, Buddhism
or science that has uplifted the race ant
given woman her honored place in the world.
LOOK where you will upon the globe, and
where Christianity is taught in it's greatest
purity and simplicity and there will be found
the largest liberty, the greatest happiness the
most abundant prosperity, and its people the
very nestors OF science. To read this volume
by woman who boasts of being "a believer
in the sanctity of SCIENCE one would infer
that the religion taught in the Bible has al
ways been the enemy of science Nothing is
palmer to honest readers than that the Bible
was never written to teach science. Its en-
tire dealings are with the religious and moral
training OF the race. The Bible cannot Justly
be held responsible for the vagaries of all
It's interpreters, Or for the monstrosities
which it's, pretended worshipcrs have prac-
ticed any more than can science be held fol-
the crude and crazy theories of science which
nave originated year after year, only to pass
| away with wiser knowledge. Look around in
all this broad land today and answer, who are
tie teachers and promoters of science? Who
tuilds and endoWs seminaries and univer-
stiles? Who builds paiatial public schools ant
demands that the poorest child shall have the
Dement'S OF scientific education? Will this
oman who pcetends to worship at the shrine
OF the sanctlty OF science" dare answer,
Ihey are atheists and agnostics and delsts 2"
1t is today, as in the past, that teachers,
promoters, and writer's, are, as a rule, be-
levers in the bible God" that our author
| ridicules and despses and fouts through all
her dreary pages. Mrs. Turner opens her
book with hundreds of quotations from
Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus, with remarks
IL ON her own astute mind, showing how su-
perior her wisdom is to that of God, and
Moses and the prophets, and finally adds:
:'These immoral teachings have followed the
generations having the sanction of God and
Moses. How far from such cruel teaching.
has science, with her love of truth and her
exact methods, led the human mind!'
The laws of Moses come in for her savag,
denunciation. If this great scientist(?) hat
taken knowledge of facts of today, some OF
Weu-being and moral lives of 1.-The peculiar
people" which she ridicules, might have hae
different signifcation, even to her disor.
Gered mind. The Jews of today are scattered
world wide, but they still obey these SANE
laws which these so-caEled scientists mari
as foolish" and "impracticable'' and cruel
A recent writer has been delving into the facts
disclosed by the census of the United States
He says that Consumption and scrofula
are rare diseases among Jews" ''The
ratio Of deaths from consumption among Jew;
in the United States was 81 per 1000, while
all others combined it was 1os per 1000"
'Fatal scrofula was LOS per 1000, in ali
others it was, ga per 1,OOO." DR.. Abbot pro.
ceecb to say that this immunity of the Jew
ish race from these fatal diseases has at
tracted the attention of statisticians of sew.
eral countries of the world, and it has beer
found uniform everywhere" DR.. De Neuf-
willie CT Frankfort says: 1.-THE average dura-
months and Of ali others 36 years and II
months One-half the jews born reach the
age Of So years and month, while one-hall
of all the others born reach only the age o.
SO years." "One,- quarter of the Jewish popu.
lation is found living beyond the age of II
years, while one-quarter Of all others are
found living only beyond5 SO years." Now, here
is solemn though. for these revilers of these
earliest teachings of the race; if their "sci.
eIce' will permit them to take it in. The
Jew yet follows the old Mosaic law. Whil3
he is homeless az to nation he is true tt
these very teachings that this wise scientis,
reviles. He is freer from disease he is no.
a drunken brawler, he seldom figures in E
police court, he is not found often in jails OF
penitentiaries, and while cut off by ostracium
from many places Of honor and trust, yet h:
IS the richest man in the world and Lives long.
er to enjoy 1t. The facts are that the livins
Jews of today are the most eloquent ant
convincing argument existing, for the divint
power that brought the Old Testament scrip.
lures into existence. This woman critic may
preach her crusade about the crude supersti.
lions and how "the loving devotion of TIL,
martyrs and heroes of science" are workins
''by cosmic forces for the benefit of human.
ity," but she butts her head against stone
wall, where every rock is cemented, ant
OILY her own head will suffer. She arraign:
the God of the Bible for all the evils whict
have befallen the race, she throws herselj
Into semi.hysterics over terminals and in
sane She demands missionaries" bul
wants them "to leave their Bibles at HON,
and for every Bible send ten Dictionaries
She proceeds to pity Gladstone, and says chi:
idea of God is not a very elevated one," ane
his philosophy 'such stuff as dreams art
made off, and that "the story of Eden, its
| injustice and cruelty. prove it to have beer
OF barbarous origin" She arralgns even Chris
UPON his cross as an imposter, and his life
end miracles after the same agnostic meth.
DDS, and shouts down with the Bible" anc
for every Bible bring ten dictionaries" Die.
tionaries and science and the largest intelli.
gence have been the landmarks of Christian.
1ty, and are today. But there are periods il
| human life when even "the unabridged" Of
fers but little comfort. A dictionary is
good book, but in the hands of an atheisa
standing at an open grave or in the home.
OF sorrow, 1t conveys no lessons of comfort
Christianity does lot belittle the intellect
Tnonpni1oS INT fha,
Mgious, and the physical being combined anc
has made its laws governing them. Edu.
cate the intellect alone, and you have tn.
agnostic; educate the religious faculty alone
and you have the puny Christian; educat.
the physical alone, and you have the muscu
lar savage 1t is only when all are educated
In harmony that you have being fitted To-
the best life on earth, and for an eternal Lift,
beyond. 1t is a little strange that the autho
after demolishing Christianity CD did NO
show her readers a few Of the blessings an.
practical beauties of agnostic and atheist,
science as "she is taught fair estimate o
the book is, that it is melted by cephaii,
head Of 100, with a heart and soul at 0. (Nev
York: Peter Eckler.)
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