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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1883)
■■■*—■ ■ ■■... s a **< OWRISTTAKT HTCRJLLD. 2 Wright, of Spangle, W. T.. He was on.his way to Harrisburg to hold a meeting. He reports the cause prospering in Eastern W. T. We were glad to form the acquaintance the soul. This and this only is the religion that enters the workshop, gives direction to the farm, deals out justice over the counter, and controls the nation’s commerse. ..Th;., h, t.W. Jpmmrmne ject of man as a result of evolution. That Darwin was a scholar and a great man in other respects is not questioned. He has furnished the scientific world with many inter esting facts, and has stimulated This is the voice of science on the question, and its true province is to rest with the facts. It is only as this theory of evolution bears on the Bible statements that we have to do with it; and every Egyptian THr^'-spìrit of investigation fchal • ,Itn,,nnv and imnmn sk«H vinced that he is a big preacher in to this world to make known to hope will yet result has been discovered, every city that us, and that gave direction and we more than one sense. in greater victory for truth has been unearthed, and indeed purpose to all he said and dfrl for and a strengthening of the Bible every additional discovery that has A BUSINESS RELIGION. the. world. When men and women, facts. Ii.is a great mistake to de been made in the land of man’s James tells us of a religion that many of whom are nominal Chris nounce Mr. Darwin as an ignoramus. primitive existence has only gone to is Dure and undefiled, which clearly tians, are brought wholly under the His trouble did not consist in his confirm the Scripture statement, implies that there may be other "mTTuOhce "tffThis religion, there willj ■ inability to accumulate facts, but* that in the beginning"God" made religions which are impure and de be a reformation all along the line. filed. We are to understand then We believe that business would rather in his lack of skill in man out of the dust of the earth, that there is but one true religion take on a new dress, the present handling these facts. IIo could lay that the Bible is a revelation of while there way 1c many false pen.leucyof soealled fashionable down his premises, but failed in God from first to last and that the would be Ranged-and 11,o «'« lo^th<,ugl.t-and Meal dis-I . ones. We are to understand fur society nations" of the earth would be r crimination necessary to draw the ’ 4EHL. remains only as a bubble on the thermore that the religion of which nations* of the earth would be James speaks Is "einphatrcaliy'ii revolutionized. We - as-piofoundly jcgitimate conclusions. . His theory great ocean of thought to be tossed business religion, one that enters believe as we are conscious of our was far in advance of his discover and burst, by the mighty waves of into and becomes a part of the existence that the ground trouble ies, and he allowed it to get the biblical knowledge and scientific real life of every man and woman with all Christendom is the direct hotter of him. He was not satisfied truth. to speculate, but unlike the true urtder its influence. It is not a antagonism between the religion of BEGINNING ARIGHT. religion that can be put on and off* the New Testament and the prac-' scientist he carried this method entirely too far. Out of his mere to suit the fancy or convenience of tical business features of life. It is We once heard of a little girl the professor. It is not a religion not because most professing Chris speculations and unwarranted con clusions he attempted to build a who became very impatient because that can be wornoneulay and laidljtian.s do not know what honesty ■bridge toconnect his-storeamuse.uf|her cloak, did .not..fit. There was aside for the revelings, hypocrisies consists in and have a feeble de-, and sins of the next. It is not a sire to do the right thing, bus it is facts with his theory. But over something wrong with it, and. the this bridge no one has ever scien little girl was unable to see just religion that makes a saint one day because they wish to succeed in tifically or logically traveled. We what it was. When her mother and a devil the next. It is not a business, and in order to do this religion of piety on the first day of they adopt the established busi accept his facts, but his conclusions was called to her assistance it was we are compelled to reject. J ust at found that’ the trouble was with the week in the Lord’s house, and ness principles of the day and this point the following • extract the buttoning. She had made the a sham, a hypocrite, an oxtortioner hence in the conflict of sharp com or a thief the other six. It is not petition they sacrifice their religion from an editorial on “ Man’s Primi little mistake of beginning with the a religion that talks one way and in order- to make a success in their tive Condition ” in the Christian at wrong button and hence they were acts another. It is not a religion worldly pursuits. From the world's Work will be of service. It says : all wrong from top to bottom. This question is to be settled only simple incident afforded the mother that is a friend to your face and a’ point of view the religion of Christ by The a careful examination of facts an opportunity of teaching the bittZr foe behind your back.- It is is not a practical thing, and hence Evidence as to original condition to not a religion that seeks your to that class of Christians under be decisive must be looked for in child a moral and Scriptural lesson. friendship in order to cut off your worldly influence, it becomes man’s original home. For evolu It waf shown that one bad act head. It is not a religion that nothing save a mere profession. tionists concede the unity of the though seemingly innocent within pulls down others in order to build And so it is that in almost every race, and ethnologists have fixed itself would often lead to greater his original habitat on the plateaux up self. It is not a religion that department of business and pro of Central Asia. There, if any ones, and hence the chain of evil acts from policy, or that seemingly fessional life religion in theory is where, the records of his primitive deeds may be extended indefinitely. dons the Christian robe for the one thing and religion in the state are to be found. Thus far One sinful act may require a false sake of filthy lucre. But on the practical and business relations of there has been produced no proof hood to hide it, and this in turn other hand it is a religion that life is quite a different thing. If of a stone age, prior to all others, as will demand a general hypocritical existing either at the original centre seeks the good of others. It is a any one thinks these things are not or in the countries adjacent. The course of conduct to cover up the religion that visits the orphans and true, let him enter the secret oldest remains discovered in the whole thing. It would seem that the widow in their affliction and chambers of the business or pro valleys of the Euphrates and the evil deeds are so linked together in keeps itself unspotted from the fessional man. Let him analyze Nile, in India or China, tell of an the very nature of things that he world. It is a religion that carries his thoughts and closely observe his advanced civilization rather than who makes the fatal mistake in savagery. The relics relied upon to a cup of cold water to a disciple of actions and he will soon be con demonstrate the condition of prim starting w.rong finds himself so Christ in the name of a disciple vinced of the truthfulness of what Hive-man are gathered from the hurried away to ruin that he has It is a religion that feeds the we write. We think the time has scenes of his migration, and art hardly time and strength of pur hungry, clothes the naked, prays come that papers and preachers confined to Western Europe. Even pose to recover himself from his by the bedside of the sick, strength should lay the* ax at the root of the there is found nothing to betoken a downward course. This principle half-man and half-brute condition ens the weak knees and comforts evil, and wc hope the day is not The earliest crania, as the Engis and not only. hold good with little the broken hearts. In short, it is a far distant when the distinction Neanderthal skulls, Huxley con thihgs, but is equally applicable to between the Church of Christ and religion that elevates the mind, the kingdom of this world will be cedes denote no inferiority of men the graver ones in the church changes the heart, establishes the drawn in broader lines and deeper tal capacity. The smaller of the work, and indeed in all the prac two lia<l a brain measurement tical gelations of the Christian life. will, centres the purposes, purifies colors than ever before. nearly double that of the highest of On the other hand, he who is so the conscience and controls the MAN AND" EVOLUTION. the apes. Existing savages, as well fortunate as to start aright will whole cause of life, at all times, in as the oldest remains of man, give Since the da£ of the scientific no shadow of evidence that there find it a much easier matter to con all places and under all circum- . stances. This is the religion that debut of Charles Darwin much has has ever existed a connecting link tinue on the even course of his way. It will not be necessary for benefits the human race, and saves been said arid written on the sub- between men and brutes. - 41»