The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-01-13


'The Bible God and Bible Teachings''-By
Mrs. NJ. M. Turner. 1.-THE old maxim, "A
little learning is dangerous thing per-
petually repeats itself as great, truth. The
Cog star seems in these closing years. Of the
nineteenth century to be in perihelion with
atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, and deis1n,
and their bark is voluminous, and rabies
| marked in every diagnosis. "Christianity has
failed; let it get out of the way and allow sci
ence chance TO 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 proclairns
herself "a believer in the sanctity of SCIENCE -
1t Is fortunate for the purity and we'll being
of the world that few women boast of their
atheism or agnost1cism. AS class none has
! been so uplifted, rehabilitated, and made to
fill so grand place by the pure teachings OF
the man of Galilee, as have the women. Travel
to heather lands, semi-civilized, Buddhis-
tlc' or Mohammedan countries, and note
| facts as they exist, and they are so over
Whe]ming on that point as to silence thu
tongues of any but the thoughtless or the vi
cious. 1t has not been heather ism, 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 i'll 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
H1 hold
its interpreters, or for the monstrosities
which its pretended worshipcrs have prac-
ticed any more than can science be held fol
the crude and crazy theories Of science which
have originated year after year, only to pass
away with wiser knowledge. Look around in
all this broad land today and answer, who are
the teachers and promoters of science? Who
builds and endows seminaries and univer-
sites? Who builds paiatial public schools ant
demands that the poorest child shall have the
benefits Of scientific education? Will this
woman who pcetends to worship at the shrine
Of "the sanctity of science dare answer,
They are atheists and agnostics and delsts p
1t is today, as in the past, that teachers.
promoters, and WRITER'S are, as rule, be.
levers in the "Bible Cod that our author
| ridicules and despises and flouts through all
her dreary pages. Mrs. Turner opens her
book with hundreds of quotations from
Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus, with remarks
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(D hat
taken knowledge of facts Of today, some Of
these laws for the regulation of the persona
Wel-being and moral lives of "the peculiar
people" which she ridicules, might have ha6
different Specification, even to her disor.
Gered mind. The Jews of today are scattered
world wide, but they still obey these sane
laws which these so-called "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 108 per 1000"
Fatal scrofula was LOG per 1000, in ali
others it was 6.4 per 1000" Dr. Abbot pro-
ceeGb 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-
Vile CT Frankfort says: "The average dura-
ton of the Life of the Jew is 48 years and
months and Of all others SO years and II
months. One-half the Jews born reach the
age OF So yeara and month"; while one-hal1
of all the others born reach only the age Of
36 years" "One-quarter of the Jewish popu.
lation is found living beyond the age of Il
years, while one-quarter Of all others are
found living only beyond59 years." Now, here
is a 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. Will,
he is homeless al to a; nation he is true tt
these very teachings that this wise scients;
reviles. He is freer from disease, he is no.
a drunken brawler, he seldom figures in
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 living
Jews of today are the most eloquent ant
convincing argument existing, for the divins
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 tn,
martyrs and heroes Of science" are working
"by cosmic forces for the benefit of human.
ity,' but she butts her head against ston.
wall, where every rock Is cemented, and
Only her own head will suffer. She arraign:
the God of the Bible for all the evils which
have befallen the race, she throws herself
Into semi-hysterics over Criminals and in.
sane. she demands missionaries, Dul
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,' ant
his philosophy "such stuff as dreams ar,
made Of" and that "the' story Of Eden, its
Injustice and cruelty. prove it to have beer
of barbarous origin" She arrafgns even Chris
uTon his cross as an imposter, and his life
and 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 intelH.
gence have been the landmarks of Christian.
ity, and are today. But there are periods IL
human life when evenr'the unabridged" Of
fers but little comfort. A dictionary is &
good book, but in the hands Of an atheis
standing at an open grave, or in the homes
of sorrow, It conveys no lessons of comfort
Christianity does not belittle the intellect
It. recognizes the intellect, the moral and re.
-hgious,; and the physical being combined. anc
has made its laws governing them. Edu.
cate the intellect alone. and you have tn,
agrostic; educate the religious faculty alone
and you have the puny Christian; educate
the physical alone, and you have the muscu.
lar savage: 1t is only when all are educated
iE harmony that you have being fitted TO,
the best life on earth, and for an eternal Nf.
beyond. 1t is little strange that the authoj
after demolishing Christianity (?) did not
show her readers few of the blessings anf