Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-07-11

and Huxlcy's protoplasm and the nebular
hypothesis! The fact is that some natu-
ralists lust az soon as they find out the
difference between the feelers OF a wasp
and the horns Of beetle begin to patron
ize the Almighty, while Agnssiz, glorious
Agassiz, who never made any pretension
TO being Christian. puts both his feet on
the doctrine Of evolution and says: II SEQ
that many of the naturalists OF our day
are adopting facts which do not bear OBJ
servation or have not passed under OBJ
serva,iou. These men warning with each
other-Darwin warning against Lamarch,
Wallace warning against Cope. even
Hcrschel dcnouncing Ferguson. They do
not agree about anything. They do not
agree on embryology, do not agree on the
graduation Of the species"
Perfection of Christianity.
What do they agree on? Herschel
writes whole chapter on the errors Of
astronomy. La Plnce declares that the
moon was not put in the right place. He
says il 1t had been put four times farther
from the earth than it is now there would
be more harmony in the universe, but
Lionville 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
| borcalis? Two and a half miles, says
Las. Ninety miles. say other scientists.
How far is the sun from the earth? Sew
enty-six million miles, says Lacalle.
Eighty-two million miles. says Hum
boldt. Ninety million miles, says Hen
derson. One hundred and four million
miles, says Mayer Only n little differ
ence of 2S,0O0,000 miles! All split up
among themselves-not agreeing on any
thing.
Here these infidel scientists have i'm
| paneled themselves as a jury to decide
| this trial between InGdelity, the plaintiff,
and Christianity, the defendant, and aft
or being out for centuries they come in to
render their verdict. Gentlemen Of the
| jury, have you agreed on Il verdict? No,
no. Then go back for another 500 years
! and deliberate and agree on something.
There is not a poor miserable wretch in
the city prison tomorrow that could be
condemned by jury that did not agree
on tho verdict, and yet you expect US to
give up our glorious Christianity to please
these men who cannot agree on anything.
All, my friends, the church Of Jesus
/
advance. | am certain it Is on the ad-
vance. l see the glittering Of the swords;
| hear the tramping Of the troops: ! hear
the laundering parks of artillery. o God
l thank thee that have been permitted
to SEQ this day Of thy triumph, this doy
of the confusion Of thine enemies! O
/ Lord God, take thy sword from thy
! thigh and ride forth to the victory!
l am nightly encouraged because
/ find, among other things, that while this
/ Christianity has been bombarded for cen
turtles inidelitv has not destroyed one
/ church. or crippled one minister, or up
rooted one verse of one chapter of all the
Bible. If that has been their magnificent
record for the centuries OF the past. what
may we expect for the future? The
church all the time getting the victory
and their shot and shell oil gone.
Secular and Religious Press.
And then find another most encourag
ing thought in the fact that the secular
printing press and the pulpit seem har-
messed in the same team for the procla.
nation OF the gospel. Every banker in
this capital tomorrow. every Wall stree,
banker tomorrow in New York. every
State street banker tomorrow in Boston
every Third street banker tomorrow in
Philadelphia. every banker In the United
States and every merchant will have in
his pocket treatise on Christianity, 10
90 or 80 passages Of Scripture in the re-
ports of sermons prea ched throughout the
land today. 1t will be so In Chicago, SC
in New Orleans. so in Charleston, SO in
Boston. so in Philadelphia, so in Cincin
matt. so everywhere. l know the trac,
societies are doing a grand and gloriou:
work, but | tell you there Is no power OF
earth today equal 30 the fact that III,
| American printing press is taking up The
sermons which are preached to n few
hundred or a few thousand people, anC
on Monday morning and Monday evening
scattering that truth to the millions
What an encouragement to every Chris
tian man!
Then you have noticed more sig
nifcant fact IL you have talked with PEG
pie on the subject, that they are getting
disgustcd with worldly philosophy as q
matter Of comfort. They say it does moi
amount to anything when you have q
dead child in the house. They tell yor
when they were sick and the door OF the
future seemed opening the only comfor
they could find was the gospel. People
are having demonstrated all over the lane
that science and philosophy cannot solacc
the troubles and woes OF the world. ant
they want some other religion. and they
are taking Christianity. the only sympa
thetic religion that ever came into the
world. You just take a scientific conso
lafion into that room where a mother has
lost her child. Try in that case you
splendid doctrine Of the Survival OF III,
ittest." Tell her that child died becnus
1t was not worth as much as the othc
children. That is your Survival Of tn,
lttest" Just try your transcendentalism
your philosophy. your science, on ths
widowed soul. and tell her it was a geo
logical necessity that her companion
should be taken away from her. just a
In the course OF the worlds history th
megatherium and the ichtbyosaurus ha,
to pass out Of existence, and then you g
on in your scientific consolation until yol
get to the sublime fact that 50,0O0,00t
years from nav we ourselves may be sci
entiiit specimens on the geologic shelf
petriiled specimens Of an extinct human
race And after you have got all through
with your consolation, if the poor Athlete,
soul is not crazed 10y it. we will senC
forth from any Of our churches the plain
est Christian we have and with one hal
hour Of prayer and reading OF Scriptur,
promises the tears will be wiped away
aud the house from floor to cupola will b,
flooded with the calmness OF an IndiaI
summer sunset. There is where ! see tn,
triumph Of Christianity. People are dis
satisfied with everything else. The,