The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-18

coveries There were more lnndels ~
the latter part of the seventeenth anu
during the eighteenth centuries IhtlH
there are today. Long before the III
vention of photography. long peIoie
the marvellous researches and discover
les made by the spectroscope, telescope
and electricity. inhdels were numerous;
In fact there were more some 5'VVo
years ago. David said: The fool says
in his heart: there is no God Another
great lie of Robert Ingersol is, Wheh
he said: where is an orthodOXCD
brain to be compared to Alexander
Hum boldt's? Where can the Christian
world produce d man like DAWN.
Buckle, Draper, Mill or Spencer? We
answer that their equals and even ,heir
superiors are found
In Kepler, Newton, Herschell. Copper
nicus and Calico, the worlds greatest
astronomers; in AgassiZ. Lyell and
Hilley, the worlds greatest biologists
In Linnaeus. Gray and Hooker, the
worlds greatest botanists.
In Won Liebig. Cooke and Faraday,
the worlds greatest chemists.
In Marco Polo. Albuquerque, NascO
di CANA. Magellan. Diaz, Columbus.
Livingstone and Stanley, the world $
grea test explorers and navigators.
In Wellington. Nelson. Faragut.
Washington, Napoleon. Grant. Sheri-
dan. Sherman, Schley and Dewey. the
worlds greatest generals and admir-
ais.
In Palmerston. Pitt. Gladstone. Lin
coin, Bismarck, Guizot and Blaine, the
worlds greatest statesmen.
In Shakespeare, Milton. Boileau. Cal
deron. Camoens. Dante. Moliere, Long
fellow, Bryant Tennyson. Schiller,
Klopstock the worlds greatest poets
In Hayden, Mozart. DOuizetti. GOu-
nod. Beethoven. Schubert Bellini. Con
cone and Verdi, the worlds greatest
musical composers.
In Raphael. Murillo. Da Ninci, Ru-
bens, Van Dyke, Michael Angelo and
Rembrandt. the worlds greatest paint
ers.
In Bossuet. BourdalOne, Massillon,
Burke, Lacordaire. Ryan. Spaldiug,
Talmage and Beecher, the worlds
greatest orators.
In Juarez, ST. Thomas. PerrOne. Man
ming Newman. Gibbons and Leo XIII.
the worlds greatest theOlogians and
sociologists.
And since the dawn of the Christian
era the worlds greatest and grandest
men have been neither unbelievers nor
heather. but Christians by majority of
a hundred to one.
These atheists of our times who look
down with contempt upon us poor
Christians. what are they Largely
they are the sons of Christian moth
ers. They learned the name of Christ
in their childhood: they read Christian
books in an atmosphere OF Christian
civilization. Had the conditions been
different, and had they been born in
Africa or on the islands of
the southern Pacific. they would now
be clad in blankets and mOccasins, or
perhaps in tropical cline with no
clothing at all, engaged in cracking
cocOanuts for a living whatever time
they could spare from the alteration of
snakes and Lizards. If they do not
like the influence of a Christian civili-
zation, they ought to go where the
atmosphere is as unbelieving and
heathenish as heart can desire. Nobody
becomes an unbeliever in consequence
OF true science. because science. as we'll
as religion. come from the same source.
all Ho-called contradictions
are only imaginary caused by un-
aspersiobs and gratuitous the
cries. or by misinterpreting truths Of
nature or of revela ton. or of both at
the same time.
REV. W. J. HENDRICKS.
Montpelier, Ida, Jan. 9, 1902.