The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-08-27


scientists and they say: 1T is impossible
that this book be true. People are finding
IL out. The Bible has got TO 20 over
board Do you believe that the Bible
account OF the origin of life will be over
thrown by inhdel scientists who have
fifty different theories about the origin of
life II they should all come up in solid
phalanx, all agreeing on one sentiment
and one theory, perhaps Christianity
might be damaged, but there are not so
many differences of opinion inside the
church as outside the church.
On. 1t makes me sick to sec these liter
airy tops going along with 4 copy of Oar
win under one arm and a case Of transiixed
grasshoppers and butterflies under the
other arm, telling about the Survival of
the httest and HuXley's protoplasm and
the nebular hypothesis. The fact is that
some naturahsts, 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 Almighty, while Agassiz,
glorious Agassiz, who never made any pre-
tension TO being Christian. put both his
feet on the doctrine of evolution and says:
see that many OF the naturalists of our
day are adopting facts which do not bear
observation or have not passed under OBJ
serNatlon.' These men warning with each
other-Darwin warning against Lamarch,
Wallace warning against Cope, even Her
schel denouncing Ferguson. They do not
agree about anything.
Then you have noticed a more significant
fact If you have talked with people on the
subject-that they are getting dissatisfied
with worldly philosophy as a matter of
comfort. They say it does not amount to
anything when you have a dead child in
the house. They tell YOU when they were
sick and the door of the future seemed
opening the only comfort they could find
was the gospel. People are having dem
onstrated all over the land that science
and philosophy cannot solace the troubles
and woes OF the world, and they want
some other religion, and they are taking
Christianity. the only sympathetic reli-
Just take a scientific consolation into that
room where mother has lost her child
Try IN that case your splendid doctrine of
the survival of the fttest." Tell her
that child died because it was not worth
as much as the other children. That is
your survival of the fttest" just try
your characterization, your philosophy,
your science, on that widowed soul, and
tell her it was geological necessity that
her companion should be taken away from
her, just as in the course of the worlds
history the megatherium and the ichthyo.
saurus had to pass out of existence, and
then you 60 on in your scientific consola-
ton until YOU get to the sublime fact that
bO,OOO;O 900 years from now we ourselves
may be scientific specimens on the geo.
logic shelf petrihed specimens of an ex-
tlnct human race, and after you have got
all through with your consolation, il the
Will send forth from any of our churches
the plLinest Christian we have and with
one half hour of prayer and reading of
Scripture promises the tears Will be wiped
away, and the house from floor TO cupola
Will be flooded with the calmness of an
Indian summer sunset. There Is where
see the triumph of Christianity. People
are dissatisfied with everything else. They
want God: they want Jesus Christ
The fact Is that infidelity and agnosti-
tOundpd
ignorance chemical, ignorance astronomi-
cal, Ignorance geographical. We have
heard what the enemies of Christianity
have had to testify: Now 1 put before
and the church in heaven. Not fit. not
a thousand, not . mllnon but all OF the
church on earth and all OF the redeemed
In heaven.
VIII you take the evidence of those
who have witnessed as we'll as felt the
power of religion. or will you prefer the
testimony OF those who begin by declar-
ing that they have never witnessed or felt
its power? You tell me that on certain
4th OF March, twenty years ago, Presi-
rated. How do / know it? You tell me
there. were 10000 persons who distinctly
heard his inaugural address. / deny both.
/ deny that he was inaugurated. | deny
that has inaugural address was delivered;
on ask why? | did not sec il. / did
not hear It: But you say that there were
10000 people who did see and hear him.
Is not the testimony of the 10000 who
were present worth more than the testi-
mony of one who was absent? Now there
are some men who say they have never
seen Christ crowned in the heart. and
they do not believe 1T is ever done. There
Is group OF men who say they have never
heard the voice OF Christ, that they have
never heard the voice of God. They do
not believe that anything like it ever oc-
CURED. L point TO twenty. a hundred
thousand or million people who say:
Christ was crowned in our hearts affec-
tons. We have seen Him and felt Him
IN our soul, and we have heard His voice.
We have heard il in the storm and dark
ness. We have heard it again and again"
Iou say morphia puts one to sleep.
\ GU say. IN time OF sickness 1t is very use
iul; deny 1t. Morphia never puts any
body to sleep 1t never alleviates pain.
You ask ny i say that / have never
tried IT. l never took it. l deny that
morphia Is any soothing to the nerves or
any quiet IN times of sickness. l deny
But here are twenty persons who say they
have all felt the soothing effects of a ply
sician's prescribing mornhine
Dung man, 90 not be ashamed to be n
friend OF the Bible. Do not put your
thumb in your vest, as young men some
times do, and swagger about, talking of
the glorious light of nature and of there
being no need of the Bible. They have
luC lEnI OF nature IN lnQld ana emma
and in all the dark places of the earth.
Did you ever hear that the light of nature
gave them comfort for their troubles?
They have lancets 90 cut and JuCgcrnauts
TO crush, but no comfort. All. my friends.
you had better stop your skepticism. Sup
pose YOU are put in a crisis like that of
Colonel Ethan Allen. / saw the account
and at one time mentioned IL IN an adj
dress A descendant of Ethan Allen. who
Is an inhdcl. said 10 never occurred Soon
after 4 received q letter from a professor
IN Ole OF our colleges. who is also a de-
sccndant OF Ethan Allen and bis "a Chris
tlan He wrote me that the incident is
accurate; that my statement was anthem
TIC and true. The wife OF Colonel Ethan
Allen was q very consecrated woman
The mother instructed the daughter IN the
truths OF Christianity. The daughter sick.
cned and was about TO die. and she said
90 her father. Father, shall 1 take your
instruction, or shall i take mothers iu.
struction; j ann going to die now.
must have this matter decided" That
man who had been loud in his infdclitv
said 20 his dying daughter. NY dear Won
mad better take your mothers religion"
Ny advice IS the same 20 YOU, O young
man. You know how religion comiorted
her; YOU know what she said to YOU when
she was dying You had better take your
mothers religion.
9e Wa Undoubtedly CuSt7.
In old NEGRO named F.ufFa. I'm how