The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-09


haa stopped an instant, the whole uni
verse would have been out of gear"
otop, said Christian philosophy;
hot quite so quick" The world has
TWO motlons-one on it's own axis and
the other around the sun. 1t was not
necessary in making them stand still
lhat both motions should be stopped
only the one turning the world on its
own axis. There was no reason why
the halting Of the earth should have
Jared and disarranged the whole uni
verse. Joshua right and God right;
lnnuellty wrong every time. l knew it
would be wrong. thank God that the
time has come when Christians need
not be scared at any scientific explora-
ton. The fact is that religion and
science have struck hands in eternal
friendship, and the deeper down geo,-
ogy can dig and the higher up astron-
omy can soar all the better for us.
The armies of the Lord Jesus Christ
have stormed the ohservatories of the
worlds science and from the highest
towers have flung out the banner of
the cross and Christianity now from
the observatories at Albany and
Washington stretches out lis hand
toward the opposing scientific weapon,
crying, There is none like that; give
1t me-" | was reading of Herschel,
who was looking at meteor through
telescope, and when it came over
the face of the telescope it was so pow
erful he had to avert his eyes. And
1T has been just SO that many an as
tronomer has gone into an observa-
tory and looked up into the midnight
heavens and the Lord God has through
some swinging world famed upon his
vision. and the learned man cried ou-:
Who am 1? Undone! Unclean.
Have mercy, Lord Cod"
Temptation, of the Traveller,
Again. | 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 a great many
travellers. There is many man who
is very honest at home who when ne is
abroad has his honor alched and his
good habits stolen. There are bat very
few men who can stand the stress OF
an expedition. Six weeks at a water
ing place have ruined many a man.
In the olden times God forbade the
travelling of men for the purposes of
trade because of the corrupting in1u-
ences attending it. A good many men
now cannot stand the transition from
one place to another. Some men who
seem to be very consistent here in the
way of keeping the Sabbath when they
| get into Spain on the Lords day all
ways go out to see the bull fights.
Plato said that no city ought to be
built nearer to the sea than ten miles
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 ma
tons. The gospels are infinitely null
tiplied in beauty and power since Rob
inson and Thompson and Burckhardt
have come back and talked to us
about Sloan and Capernaum and Jer-
usalem, pointing out to us the lilies
about which Jesus preached, the
beach upon which Paul was ship
wrecked. the lords at which Jordan
was passed, the Red Sea bank on
which were tossed the carcasses of the
drowned Egyptians. A man said: 81
went to the Holy Land an infidel. |
came back Christian. could not
help it,
Un'versa,itv of Religion.
So it has also been with the learn
ing and eloquence of the world Peo-
pie say, Religion is very good for aged
women, it is very good for children,
but not for men," But we have in the
roll of Christ's host Mozart and Han
del in music, Canoya and Angelo in
sculpture, Raphael and Reynolds in
painting, Harvey and Boerhaave in
medicine, Cowper and Scott in poetry,
Grotius and Burke in statesman ship,
Boyle and Leibnitz in philosophy,
Thomas Chalmers and John Mason in
theology. The most brilliant writings
of worldly nature are all aglow with
Scriptural illusions.
Samuel l.. Southland was mighty in
the court room and in the senate cham
Der, but he reserved his strongest elo-
quence for that day when he stood be-
fore the literary societies at Princeton
commencement and pleaded for the
grandeur Of our Bible. Daniel Web
ster won not his chief garlands while
responding to Hayne nor when he
opened the batteries of his eloquence
on Bunker Hill, that rocking Sinai of
| the American Revolution, but on that
day when in the famous Girard will
case he showed his affection for the
Christian religion and eulogized the
Bible. The eioquence and the learning
that have been on the other side come
over to our side. Captured for God!
There is none like that; give it me- "
So also has it been with the picture
making of the world. We are very
anxious on this day to have the print
ing press and the platform on the side
of Christianity, but we overlook the
engraver's knife and the painter
| mcneil The antinuarian poac apd