Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-07-08


and carried in golden chair to a
cathedral, where incense was burned
to her and people bowed down before
her as a divine being, she taking the
place of the Bible and God, while in
the corridor Of that cathedral were
enacted such scenes of drunkenness
and debauchery as had never before
been witnessed? Do you think that
such a thing could possibly occur ir
Christendom today? No. The police,
! Of Washington or of New York or of
! Paris would swoop upon it.
Science and Religion.
! These opponents say that science is
! overcoming religion in our day They
] look through the spectacles of the in
! fldel scientists, and they say: at is
impossible that this book be true Peo-
! pie are finding it out. The Bible has
got to go overheard. Science is going
to throw it overheard" Do you be-
lieve that the Bible account of the ORR
gin Of life will be overthrown by infidel
scientists who have so different theo-
ries about the origin of life? If they
should all come up in solid phalanx, all
, agreeing on one sentiment and one the
',
aged, but there are not so many differ
ences of opinion inside the church as
outside the church. Oh, it makes me
sick to see these literary tops going
! along with copy of Darwin under one
arm and case of transfiXed grasshop-
pers and butterflies under the other
arm, telling about the survival of the
fittest'' and Huxley's protoplasm and
the nebular hypothesis. The fact is
that some naturalists, just as soon as
they find out the difference between
the feelers of a wasp and the horns of
a beetle, begin to patrOniZe the AL
mighty, while Agassiz. glorious Agas-
siz, who never made any pretension to
being Christian, puts both his feet
on the doctrine of evolution and says:
81 see that many of the naturalists of
our day are adopting facts which do
not bear observation or have not pass
ed under observation" These men war
ring with each other-Darwin warning
against Lamarch, Wallace warning
against Cope, even Herschel denOunc-
ing Ferguson. They do not agree about
anything.
What do they agree on? Herschel
writes whole chapter on the errors of
astronomy. La Place declares that the
moon was not put in the right place.
He says if it 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
borealis? Two and a half miles, says
LAS. Ninety miles, say other scien-
fists. How far is the sun from the /
earth? Seventy-siX million miles, says
Lacalle. Eighty-two million miles, says
Humboldt. Ninety million miles, says /
Henderson. One hundred and four
million miles, says Mayer. Only little /
difference of 100000 miles! All split
up among themselves-not agreeing on
anything.
The Church Advancing.
Here these infidel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as a jury to decide !
this trial between Infidelity, the plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, /
and after being out for centuries they
come in to render their verdict. Gen
tlemen of the jury, have you agreed on |
a verdict? No, no. Then go back for
another 500 years and deliberate and |
agree on something. There is not
poor, miserable wretch in the city pris-
on tomorrow that could be condemned |
by a jury that did not agree on the YER
dict, and yet you expect us to give up
our glorious Christianity to please /
these men who cannot agree on any
thing. All, my friends, the church of
Jesus Christ, instead of falling back, is
on the advance.
l am nightly encouraged because 1
find, among other things, that while
this Christianity has been bombarded
for centuries infidelity has not destroy
ed one church or crippled one minister
or uprooted 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 get
ting the victory, and their shot and
shell all gone.
And then | find another most encour-
aging thought in the fact that the sec
ular printing press and the pulpit seem
harnessed in the same team for the
proclamation Of the gospel. Every
banker in this capital tomorrow, every
Wall street banker tomorrow in New
York, every State street banker tomor-
row in Boston, every Third street bank
er tomorrow in Philadelphia, every
banker in the United States and every
merchant will have in his pocket a
treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or 80
passages of Scripture in the reports Of
sermons preached throughout the land
today. 1t will be so in Chicago, so in
New Orleans. so in Charleston so in