The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-19

though silent to those who willingly
speak evil and gladly "taketh up a
reproach against their ~neighbor." Do
this and it will make it no longer so
pleasurable a sin. if they who offer the
reports of Islander find favor who are
willing to receive them" The Roman
Juvenal wrote of the scandal, and il
was translated into English in the
seventeenth century. 1t is not much
known so | copy it:
And there's a lust in man no charm
can tame
OF loudly publishing Our ~neighbOr's
shame;
On eagles wings immortal scandals
fly,
While virtuous actions are but born
and die
Shakespeare. who gave to the world
more of riches than any other author,
in "C~ymbeline" left this:
No. tbs SANDER,
Whose edge is sharper than the
sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile,
whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth
belle
5An corners of the world"
1t is so much better to speak we'll
than evil Of ones neighbor. 1t is Christ
! like to be good and do good; it is so
Satanic to scatter around the poison
of reproach and SANDER.
[ have aforetime written more or
Jess as to the prevailing dogma or
theory called Evolution, generally
supposed to be Darwin's pet conten-
ton. In former years l read occasion
ally discussions upon it, for and
against. 1 do not believe in the nan
monkey theory. [ have no idea that
my most remote ancestor was a que
rilla or chimpanzee. But l refer to
Darwinism now not - discuss the
absurdity and flimsin 9ss of its claims,
but to point to a mistake that pre-
walls as TO the origin of Evolution. 1t
Is not a modern dogma, but having
some antiquity back of it, and for CEN
turtles. Baron Won Holbach, a French
philosopher, of the m~aterialistic
school, in his work called "Systeme de
' Ia Nature" preached the idea now so
current among the school of men of
science, Darwin, Huxley. yndaIl and
the others. and their successors. He
thought that man might be the out
come of an infiinity of atoms, acting
upon one another from eternity. etc
] have before me the entire passage
In WnlCn ne springs MS theory OF the
production or origin of man. but it is
not necessary for my purpose to copy
it. He held the idea of the twentieth
century ScepticS and materialiSts. al
though lie lived in the eighteenth cen
fury. He and the others of this spec
ulative turn ignore the positive teach
ing of God in the Eternal Scriptures
Of Inspiration. \ Prof. Tyndall quotes
from DemocrituS. who lived in the
fifth century before Christ. and his
opinions are quite like those Of the
Frenchman Holbach referred to. So
nineteenth and twentieth century So
called science has only dug up an old
scientific fossil and busted and fur
bished it ana mad it shine with a
latter-day gloss. 1t is so with other
m~odernlzed SpeculationS and alleged
progress. The DarWinian theory is in
fidelity. | recall that in 1S73-twenty-
four years ago, an eminent, able. veTy
clear-headed German scholar. Theo-
dor Christlieb, Ph. D.. d. d. Profes
sor of Theology and University
preacher at Bonn. Prussia. read a
great paper before the General Con
ference of the Evangelical Alliance
that met in New York city. 1t was
very elaborate, learned, unique, un-
commonly thoughtful and instructive
and ] read 1t with much of edificatiOn
and pleasure. 1t was on THE Best
Methods of Counteracting Modern In
fidelity and was worth its weight in
gold. [ refer 10 it to cite a suggestive
passage that is full of truth Towards
the close of his learned discussion he
said this: For many of our oppon-