The weekly examiner., 1901-05-18

earth 1s simply an absurdity. Where vast thou,' says God, when set the foundations of the esrthy The eaFta has no foundation" Christian phi as translated found a tions" may be better translated "sockets." So now see how it will read if it is translated right: "Where vast thou when set the sockets of the earth? Where IS the socket? It is the hollow of Gods hand-a socket large enough TOT any world to turn in.
 Worldly philosophy said: What al an absurd story about Joshua making the sun and moon stand still! Ii the world had stopped an instant the whole universe would have been out of gear.' ssStop,'' said Christian Philoso- phy; "not quite so quick" The world has two motions-one on it's own axis and the other around the sun. Itwas not necessary in making them stand still that both motions should be stopped-on1y the one turning the world on it's own axis. There was no reason why the halting of the earth should have jared and disarranged the whole universe. Joshua right and God right; infidelity wrong every time. I knew it would be wrong. l thank God that the time has come when Christians need not be scared at any scientific exploration. The fact is that religion and science have struck hands in eternal friendship, and the deeper . ho fnh ar up astronomy can soar all the better for us. The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ have stormed the observatories of the worlds science and from the highest towers have flung out the ban ner of the cross, and Christianity now from the observatories at Albany and Washington stretches out it's hand to- ward the opposing scientific weapon, crying: ''There is none like that; give it me-" Twas reading of Herschel, who was looking at meteor through a telescope, and when it came over the face of the telescope it was so power full he had to avert his eyes, And it has been just so that many an astrono- mer has gone into an observatory and looked up into the midnight heav- ems, and the Lord God has through some swinging world famed upon his vision, and the learned man cried out: ''Who am I? Undone! Unclean! Have mercy, Lord G>d!"
 Again, I remark that the travelling disposition of the world, which was adverse to morals and religion, is to be brought on our side. The man that went down to Jericho and fell amid thieves was a type of 8 great many travellers. There is many a manswho is very honest at home who when he is abroad has his honor hlcheda and his good habits stolen. There are but very few men who can stand the stress of an expedition. Six weeks at a wa tering place have ruined many man. In the olden times God forbade the travelling of men for the purpose of trade because of the corrupting inhu- ences attending it. A good many men now cannot stand the transition from one place to and Gr Somsmen who seem to be very consistent here in the way of keeping the Sabbath when they ! get into Spain on the Lords day al ways go out to see the bullfights. Plato said that no city ought to be
 
 lest it be tempted to commerce. But this travelling disposition of the world which was adverse to that which is good is to be brought on our side. These mail trains, why, they take our Bibles; these steamships, they trans port our missionaries; these sailors, rushing from city to city all around the world, are to be converted into Christian heralds and go out and preach Christ among the heather nations. The Gospels are infinitely multiplied in beauty and power since Robinson and Thompson and Burk- hardt have come back and talked to us about Sloan and Capernaum and Jerusalem, pointing out to us the lilies about which Jesus preached, the beach upon which Paul was shipwrecked, the lords at which Jordan was passed, the Red sea bank on which were tossed the carcasses of the drowned Egyp- tlans. A man said: "I went to the Holy Land an infidel. I came back a Christian. I could not help it.'
 am not shocked, as some have been, at the building of railroads in the Holy Land. I wish that all the world might go and see Golgotha and Beth lehem. How many who could not af- ford muleteers now easily buy tickets from constantinople to Joppa! Then let Christians travel! God speed the rail trains and guide the steamships this night panting across the deep in the phosphorescent wake of the shin ing feet of Him who from wave cliff to wave cliff trod bestormed Tberius. The Japanese come across the water and see our civilization and examine our Christianity and go back and tell the story and keep that empire rock ing till Jesus shall reign
 Where'er the sun
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 And the firearms with which the in- fdel traveller brought down the Arab horseman and the jackals of the des- ert have been surrendered to the church, and we reach forth our hand.