Milford chronicle., 1908-04-24

2 Take. for instance, the movement {
]. the crusades. Do you believe that til
n men who followed Godfrey Of Bouillo
I or Frederick Barbarossa or Richar
/ the Lion Hearted or Count Baldwin O
a Flanders cared a plcayune abou
Christ? Do you believe they were sin
, cere. earnest, noble, self sacrifcin
Christians, or do you believe that 70
the most the crusaders Of old wer,
freebOoters and renegades and children
of the fortunes of war who cared no
whom they were fighting as long al
they could live by conquest and fatteI
upon the spOils of their swords? When
the pope sent forth his emissaries ia
peddle around his "indulgences." dc
| you think that he cared anything about
the sins of the people? Was It not
rather that he adopted this means to
levy tax upon the whole world to
support the outrageous extravagances
Of his ecclesiastical hierarchy? Do you
believe Henry VIII was concerned
about the purity OF the church when
be separated from the pope and estab-
like the pOtentates that had gone be-
fore him. sought from the church the
help and strength 1t might afford. 1t
was a selfish design. out Of which God
has brought good to the world. Wher-
ever you see the church in olden times
grow powerful in a temporal sense.
then 1t became tyrannical and Cypress
i've, and If any man refused to join It
he was looked upon as an enemy to his
country. In olden times the question
Of a mans membership in the church
did not turn upon whether he loved /
Christ and had his spirit. but whether |
he believed in the technicalities of a
sectarian creed which had been the
product Of human ingenuity and had
little to do with the great purpose Of
Christ's gospel.
But there is another fact which has
split up the hard, rocky soil of the
earth for the gospel harvests-that is.
some Of the abest men Of this century
nave come out unequlvocally I'm their
testimony to the truth of the Bible and
he Immortality of the soul. The more
ully science has gone on in its in
the more the Bible is ac-
epted in its simplicity. the more the
reatest men Of light and learning are
eady TO accept it, This fact is not a
natter of doubt; it is susceptible Of
roof.
About year ago the editor Of
opular magazine published the an
wers to series Of questions which he
ad sent out to a thousand members Of
lie medical profession. One OF the ,
uestiOns he asked was. DO you be- :
eve in lmmOrtallty?" There were 600 !
lswers to that inquiry, and Of these =
'ery physician but twelve answered .
the affirmative Think Of that! q
ome Of US have supposed that the :.
edical profession was made up of u
Five hundred and eighty a
ght physicians out Of 600 confessed .
at they believed in the Immortality h
the soul. And without any doubt u
e larger proportion of those men also n
lieved in the divinity Of Jesus Christ. a
What is true Of the medical profess m
IN is true Of the law And what is II
lie of the law is also true to a large n
tent in reference TO students Of phys r.
Il science. Said a prominent college n.
esident to me some time ago. MY d,
lbition is to give my college the best m
urse Of science it is possible for il h,
have, for ! believe the more we I'M a,
rstand the sciences the more we will ",
lieve in the Holy Bible" The night
reinforcement today we have for 70
bic truth is the archaeOlogists ham or
r and the biologists crowbar-New- wl
and Faraday and Agassiz and Jo- no
III Henry and Sir William Dawson so
1 Professor Sayre, the leaders of ga
entific thought, all firm believers in OI
d and his book. N
Science on Side of Religion. pli
want TO read the powerful test- sm
ny Sir William Dawson, one Of the in
attest biologists Of our time, gave ste
ne time ago before a body Of stu lor
ITS: Il have read recently-and. to
TESS, with feelings of contempt ere
respecting the supposed rea
itations Of the knowledge Of Jesus. We.
he know the data of modern criti- int
n? Was he acquainted with the dis pal
cries Of modern science? The iy lif,
hitting on my hand might as well hin
impt to understand the thoughts
sing through my brain as criticism
sauge in this way the mind Of Je-
To me as student Of fifty years
nature, of man and Of the Bible A
b discussions seem most frivolous Tur
e our Lords knowledge as we have lOni
his discourses is altogether above ton
beyond our science and philoso- Tur
transeanding them as much as the at
on OF an astronomer armed with gov
OF the great telescopes Of our time was