The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1901-06-30

" the dignity OF GOODIES.
rLled IN a golden chair to {
&c incense was bnrne(
bowed down before
ing, she taking the
God. while in
cathedral were
of drunkenness
Fhad never before
o you think that
possibly occur in
No. The police
New York or of
bon it.
would sNyy Religion.
Science g that science is
VThese opponents D our day. They
overcoming religion eetacles of the in
look Though the 81 they saw: at is
sfdel scientists. and hook be true Poo
Ahpossiple 'tf'tpls The Bible has
PIE are iinuii.s II "" cience is going
got 10 go oNerDoaru' Do you be-
to throw. it. overheard. inf of tho ori
lieye that the, Bible accoa n Inv infidoI
gin of.life viii be overthrowA s,,t +baot
scientists who have 80 diffdAJf 10,
ries about the origin Of lifeY ii
should all come up in solid phElanxr "a
agreeing on one sentiment and one theN
DRY. perhaps Christianity ~ - be daHt
aged. but there are not SO ktly differ
enccs of opinion inside the church as
outside the church. oh, it makes me
sick to see these literary tops going
along with a 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 a 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 1t 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
boreaHs? Two and a half miles, says
LAS. Ninety miles. say other scien
lists. 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 foul
million miles, says Mayer. Only littl'
difference of 100000 miles! All spill
ND among themselves-not agreeing Oh
, anything.
The Church Advancing.
e Here these infidel scientists have i'm
paneled themselves as jury to decid
? this trial between Infdelity, the plain
tiff, and Christianity, the defendant
t and after being out for centuries the
come In to render their verdict. Ger
9 tlemen of the jury, have you agreed o.
s a verdict? No, no. Then go back 70
s another 500 years and deliberate an
o agree on something. There is not
e poor. miserable wretch In the city prii
q on tomorrow that could be condemne
, by jury that did not agree on the We
IS dict. and yet you expect us to give U
It our glorious Christianity to pleas
these men who cannot agree on an,
D thing. All. my friends, the church
T. Jesus Christ, instead of falling back,
u on the advance.
t. am nightly encouraged because
y, find, among other things, that viii
20 this Christianity has been bombard'
rs for centuries infidelity has not destro
in ed one church or crippled one minist
o. or uprooted one verse of one chapter
y, all the Bible. If that has been the
IL magnificent record for the centuries
If the past, what may we expect for Z
n, future? The church all the time g
n, ting the victory, and their shot al
", shell all gone.
or And then l find another most encoJ
m aging thought in the fact that the Sc
us ular printing press and the pulpit see
a. harnessed in the same team for [
Y, proclamation Of the gospel. Eve
r. banker in this capital tomorrow, eve
Wall street banker tomorrow in M
70. York, every State street banker TOM
ID. row in Boston, every Third street bar
Y' er tomorrow in Philadelphia, eve
as banker in the United States and eve
as merchant will have in his pocket
of treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or
nm passages of Scripture in the reports
a sermons preached throughout the la
id today. 1t will be so in Chicago, so
re- New Orleans, so in Charleston, so
m Boston, so in Philadelphia, so in c
v" cinnati, so everywhere. l know
@-oof cooiotipS arc dOinQ a grand q