New-York tribune., 1903-08-06

that I was very much Interested. and / read that
We osePh BaGPs wat wh has his ay had em
grated to your country and his family renamed
remained Christan-and took farrl cut West
e and m there they Re bi f0' and S bis
eye fell upon copy Of the New Testament l 51e be
too t99k d9Tn tnt nat n MeT " G bnsa 9S 70 Tead long
time had passed since the days OF these congo-
ferent tone in his mind and as he read the Gospel
he felt there was power mere tnat ne &c aa1 @ ne he
wondered, the more he impressed. He felt
III thpf a % B9"sE a df 6Sec63s 59d fP9n ed a away as
If they had never been. He didnt say muen al
from to time. and, not to prolong the story o.;
by bit he came back first Of all agan 70 kisu 2 O1
Gospel and again entered the ministry and died "a
your land minister of the Gospel OF the LoFo
Jesus Christ.
NOT AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE.
Well that was Yog say y{r.IsT pt that that if
want to bring is that this is not an eAeeR9@hat @
fS 5 the2 9e aTe could tell you one after another
and after another OF Just sucn cases 80 ~ in
country Thomas Cooper man man SSo9, Tn0 Tes Ieetur m
infidei lecturer GharSt W wnG and otSer things
and who became converted TO the 5 Ialsn % M 3hs
faith he had once destroyed If you go to any olo m
bookstore in our eountry rf you @1es % % %Apoeryphai
GospeIs written by man who had no faith IN
Snd many others r at the time became earnest
Christian man wrote his autobiography and lelt Oh
have in my desk at home had.5 think 9Isd l
h5ye b0St f6a sfa Of @ sdne sec1r leaders
in England and Scotland but mainly IN a.is sIone
who became Christians before tneI II Lis ~ fs Of
b Christians and adXoeates o. I Iae over in
Christ. remember when Mr. M MOODY $com9o1 waS 1v
You 90 to Berlin. You will find there a -t3s tn9st
agnisenf mas Re 6ddhes S5 What IS the history Of
these? Well there was Iaan-I1ey Iaan,y,, SinS Of a
man who was grief TO all about him VINO dfss IHLs
his own country ana came m co15 1Ts make Of himself
He entered into your Civil War mere ana Of
course @ nae d 70 6 ooA an old Colonel Of his down South
sonnew here a Christian man; was taken mt ao Lt,
home, was kindly treated by him. was taken 70 9eT see
he was Carrying on. It resulted in that man & : con
version He became minister dozdn N TINS SoG3g men
round about him and asked them TO try to sup
Pou have over here They said I'VE have neither
money nor influence nor power, ma NO. en- ths Work
began and out of that there sprung this 41nns
Mems Christian Association ~oTH, ,,rr many sim
liar associations in the cities OF Germany AN
Al but You say all this refers Just to ordnary
people people who have naa no ISM it true
that you have great drift away from GhI'Stiae 4;
acb Talt9 IN rSe lhst in the best men Of them
have either an unshaken Christan No let me
give you an illustration or two Of that ~ men ens
tened q RoaHe RReT9 Wen Known name in
the scientific world great evolutienist We'll:
library. lost every atom Of faith he ever had He
wrote one of the most trenehant books & that bS We
is often quoted. l have quoted it myself In ooGks
tbiet of unbeIief But What happened? IN the
last two or three years Of his life great faanSs m I
Gas Gnbeef eyer was a shaken BIT by bit he under
the power Of the Gospel and & Ls DIED a. Tpsaad
avowing the faith of Jesus His deity and HIS
every other great article Of our faith That Is
on wei. You say. but that is kind of excep-
ton. No. dear friends tel you sgain u 1naf has -
boo book of bis tells US thai one thing that greatly
impre ssed him the fact that at Cambridge,
the fact that all the most eminent mathematicians
and men Of science in that university +; were Gev
%Tit9en SHffg in this book You say Oh but there
the m drft FITS is not tt away further from christianity
venture say that the drift is at this hour nearer
TO Christianity.
DRIFT TO CHRISTIANITY.
Now. will give you an illustration ton Of oti1- that
outburst of infdelity. We have Of late years had
a new development in the form of what is called
sixpenny editions of books Among them there IS
book thai mqst be M knOTn to many Gger asFs
Of German book. a book that has gone thTough ugh
a q0 m nto OF 1e N W 6aTs SwP NO do1b yoG
have an American edition of 1t. but we have an
about in this slxpenny edition; and the idea OF
that German book is to make the most virulent
show that science the author dec ares. destroys
and Immortality and the freedom of the will Well.
l do minimize the seriousness Of that SHE. But
Hackers that / speak Of is being circulated in
that way, it has long, for fully quarter OF
there is this very peculiar thing about IT that
have had occasion to do and write about it also,
1 was Impressed by th1s-thaI nearly ali the great
of the greatest Of them quoted in favor Of his
opinions changed their views some thirty or forty
s hs g6e aoSs at they haTe Hs al oSansad
since then and come round to the other SIDE
you the names Of one or two OF them; There
I suppose. who died recenty Virchow OF Berlin
Exactly on the line Of this Haeckei book; taught
his Morism and his materialisra in way that
reJoiced the soul Of Haeckel But later or, in
lecture ~ sgf Which ne gAye Sr at BERN sailed the
Sd me "ine rConoed upon the view ne mad hitherto
thing that HaeCkel advocated went even from evo-
descent OF man nom the ape; he said: 1T is all
nonsense: you are as far ever you were from
ape That is the highest physioiogicaI authority
II n Germany; yet ne sad these things Well, poor
detection Of his supporter, thinks il is sad
business iE he has gone away in this fashion. but
There IS another of his great authorities Du Bots
9h0eeF man VIC wrote % Just in the same
things that HaeckeI is advocating He too in a a
Haecke beoans and has reamed the e'So soul a as
4s ma reanFmed ths spiritual pr nripe in man. and
HaeckeI is inconsolable at his detection ~ 1-'@
ana thtn tnere IS another man that viii name
Nundt; the man who stands probably highest as a
psychologist in Germany at Leipsic-and he in his
materiastic resolving man Very much Tpro h M
or brain functions; but HaeckeI tells rs that ir -
book that he p16shed as the great er 5s os early E
10 eXniata s9 VI! 80 'ahe i1 al the rest Of his life
thing ~" "iiu"s the other
And 50 l might go on. I might say that the last.
he has 7-E