Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-15


creation as set down by Bible chron-
ology AS little friendly advice |
would ask him to read Andrew D.
Whites History of the. Warfare Be
tween Science and Theology; Buch-
ner's Man in the Past, Present and
Future; Tuttle's Antiquity of Man,
and other works of the same kind. But
he would be afraid he would endanger
his souls salvation and refuse
Permit me to add that if he studies
the subjects with the mental integrity
they deserve, he never will know these
things, for the simple reason that they
are untrue. To hear some men talk
one would imagine they had sounded
the depths of the universe.
The peoples pulpit appears to be
covering quite broad scientific field
So far we have had the Mosaic hex
aemeron, and the antiquity OF man. IL
is now in order for someone to broacn
the Noachian deluge, and ring in the
Neanderthal and Canstatt skulls and
the skullcap of the pithecanthropus
erectus. The authors he names, TO-
gether with others of the same Kid
ney, had not been so busy lmpartlns
information, and would take time 10
ACQUIRE some, they would learn that
Christian scholars are so far in all
vance of them, in the sciences ne
names, that they might prohtaply
spend the rest of their lives In their
footsteps without overtaking them.
Just note the sheer, suggestive of
lurking Mephistopheles. He is, OF
course. familiar with DR.. Whites
.'History of the Warfare of Science
with Theology" and twits others with
being afraid to read the books he
enumerates, but I will wager my
saccharine vitality upon it that he has
never studied the mastery analysis
by Reverend Thos. Hughes, OF the
chef d'oeuvre of those two preten-
tious volumes. If the reader will get
| this and study it, he need have no
| fear of reading DR.. Whites prating, as
| it will be as harmless as a wasp with
its singer extracted.
lust here l am reminded by Carlyle,
certainly an able critic, that "ridicule
is intrinsically small faculty Its
use. however, evinces a good knoWl-
edge of human nature. The average
man Is afraid of laugh. He may be
physically brave-in fact he would
| fight at the drop of a hat-but, bless
you he trembles with apprehension
lest his fellow men fail to regard him
as being a broadminded, liberal fellow,
so he swavs with the wind.
Reader, do not misunderstood me.
hold that anyone has perfect right,
so far as human laws go, to believe
what he pleases, and if he finds any
pleasure In DR.. Whites tommyrot, to
gulp 1t down. He has the further right
to publish any argument in support of
| his theories he may deem proper, as
long as he confines himself to the do
main of The intellect. But he has not
the right to outrage Christian senti-
ment; to resort to ridicule, irreverent
sibes at everything the Christian con-
siders sacred and holy. Sentiment
deals not with truth or error-that is
the province of the judgment. Just q
word about A. D. Whites so-called
history" The criticism referred tc
proves to any man who can distinguish
between 4 valid illation and non
seuuitur, that it does not rise to the
dignity of even tenth-rate scholarship
Choosing the portion selected by Mr.
/ Whites friend and critic, DR.. Kendall
| Adams, ex-president of Cornell uni
versity, presumably to show the au
thor at his best, Rev. Hughes dissects
it with keen Damascus blade, and re
veals DR.. White as he is. Think o.
being offered, as an author from
whom to learn science, man Whf
treats, in two big volumes, of science
and religion, yet gives a definition O
neither; who says that for nineteeI
years after the death of the man o
whom he was writing, nothing was
known of certain stories that then be
gan to be related of him, and then pro
ceeds to relate some of these storle:
dating from two, three and four year,
after his death, and refers TO certain
judicial processes instituted four year
after his death. to examine these
stories: who libels certain authors D.
distoring their text, makes false as
: sumptions, false assertions, gratultou
affirmations, and false quotations
quotes an authors statements con
corning a general question, as if it re
lated to a specific instance, when tn
author, in dealing with the precls
case referred to, gave his testlmon
against Dr.. White, and in more thai
one passage, even though he was writ
ing in Peru, 10000 miles away from
the country spoken of; who quotes
letter as coming from man who wa
: not in the place at the time the lette
was supposed to emanate therefron
and cites as evidence of the Hon-eXls
ence of these stories, one speech on
, of more than $50, contained in IA
great folio tones, though it did nc
deal with the subject-like the erin
inal Offering to bring ten witnesses t.
testify that they had not, for every on
: who would testify that they had, see
} him commit the crime.
This brand of logic does not con
!, mend itself to a plain common sens
: Christian people. And this is the sol
, of twaddle offered to intelligent peopl
in this boosted age of enlightment a
twentieth century common sense an
e reason from one who deserves tn
I title of Philosopher of the Suppress
/: Ver. Although the masters
: biblical literature long ago decide