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AW h ERÀ l D trines of the Bible, accepted by the earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for budie«»- evangelical example, whether in Sirius or in one year of convent life would Of late years there has been heard sicken young Martin; but he did a loud-outcry from many quarters Christians ; Christ taught them and Arcturus, execu not know what stuff the youth was against doctrinal preaching. Away preached them. To this fact we in the same time... .No theory of made of. Instead of whining and with your dogmas! Down with owe our possession of them. If ever evolution can be formed to account jthedoctrine of man’s depravity and for the similarity of molecules, for complaining of his hard fare and I your creeds anj c0 scourgings he wanted more. He catechisms ! We will none of them. guilt, and his helplessness therein,- evolution necessarily implies con puttied Ilin mipt ulnu bj lil.u »iuueri | w^ull t W|un UU1 uuulu i,M,l|)w.A was preached, Christ preached it. tinuous change, and the molecule is Accay, ..... ty of his faith, and the earnestness up and afflicted by being told that If the way out oTThis dilenffmainter incapabfe of growth of his character. When he was they are altogether sinful, and must life and immortality through the generation or destruction. ‘None of sent to Rome to divert his thoughts, perish everlastingly except they re- blood of atonement was ever preach the processes of nature, since the - and save him fronj possible insanity pent and be converted by the grace ed, Christ preached it. If the ne- time when nature began, have pro- by sights that would dazzle him" of God, cleansed by the blood of ■euwity of holiness of hcarLand life duced the slightest difference in the with worldly ambitions, he was Christ, and renewed by the Holy was ever preached, Christ preached properties of any molecule. We disgusted with the immoralities and Ghost. We prefer not to be told it’ If ever the doctrine of the Holy are therefore unable to ascribe either - license and mockery of religion Jie that we must die, and that there is Spirit’» presence, necessary to re the existence of the molecules or beheld, and returned more serious a judment-seat at which everyone new, guide and keep to eternal life the identity of their properties to. and earnest than ever. He studied, must give account of himself to God. was preached, Christ preached it. any of the causes which we call na The certainty of death ; the solem tural. On the other hand, the ex was licensed to preach, and aston Prophesy unto us smooth things. nity of the judgment; the eternity act equality of each molecule to all ished the people and his superiors This cry has had its influence in by his eloquence. The Elector the pulpit and the class-room, to the of the saint's, jiliss and the impeni -others of the same kind gives, it, as Frederic was impressed with his detriment of a vigorous Christian- tent sinner’s woe—how He labored Sir John Herschel has well said, earnestness, and fervor.__ He was w,lity. Much _of that which passes to inculcate them, and to get the the essential character of a manu- Lelieva -them 1-But why, factureil article^,and precludes the -- too . . zealous and too much in earnest • -- current to day under the name uf specify ? His Very presence in this idea of its being etcrnaT and self- for his superiors. When Tetzel the Christian religion, as it is illus came into Germany peddling in- trated in the lives of professed be world, His suffering life and igno existent. Though in the course of - diligences, and selling them at . lievers,- is effeminate and weak. minious death, were all sermons, ages catastrophes have occurred, auction in the name of the Pope, Nothing is more to be deplored than fraught with compassionate elo and may yet occur in the heavens, the best sentiment of Germany was the religious superficial ness and its quence, on every doctrine of the though ancient systems may be dis solved and new ones evolved out of scandalized, and Luther revolted. double resultant, the disparaging Word °f God. Let not His disciples, who profess their ruins, the molecules out of He faced the tremendous power of criticism and distressing scepticism Rome alone. Perhaps no grander that mark the present. And it must to sit at His feet as learners, forget which these systems áre built—the scene was ever witnessed than that l>e confessed that conspicuous among the example of the Great Teacher. foundation stones of the material imperial diet at Worms. It was the reasons for this state of things Let them be influenced by that universe—remain unbroken and un one young man confronting the is to be reckoned the studied sup rather than by the demand of some worn. They continue this day as mightiest organization on the globe. pression, to great extent, of the that the doctrines be omitted, or, if they were created, perfect in num The Pope’s Legate had said to him fundamental doctrines of religion— presented, so glossed over by be ber and measure and weight; and that he- must retract. “ Think you the comparative paucity of doctrin witching rhetoric and modifying from the ineffaceable characters im parentheses, as to be emasculated of pressed on them we may learn that that the Pope cares for the opinions al preaching and teaching. all energy. The sword of the Spirit those aspirations after accuracy in of Germany ? Will the prince take They who join in this outcry are up arms for you ? No, indeed. out of harmony with the great placed in the hands of preachers measurement and justice in action, And where will you be then ?” founder of Christianity. Doctrines and teachers is two-edged, nor is it which we reckon among our noblest “ Under Heaven,” answered Luther. were the subjects and substance of meant to be a toy to play with, but attributes as men, are ours because This answer showed the spirit of His discourses. The effect upon a weapon to slay with, and no one they are essential constituents of the man. Baron George, of Frends- the people, of His Sermon on the is justified in making it ineffectual the image of Him who, in the be- berg, touched Luther on the Mount, was to cause astonishment by dulling its sharpness with gar gining created not only the heaven shoulder as he passed into the great “ at His doctrine." Out of His .ser lands of roses.— Christian Intelli and the earth, but the materials of which heaven and earth consist.” hall, and said, “ Little monk, little mons and sayings the Apostles con gencer. ------------------------------------- -- monk, thou hast work before thee, structed their Epistles, all of them The Quarterly Review remarks Against Evolution. that I, and many a man whose replete with doctrine. To Paul’s upon this passage as follows : • trade is war, never faced the like mind the doctrine of justification Clark Maxwell, Professor of Ex- “No apology need be made for this of.” “ If you are right," whispered by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ peri mental Physics at Cambridge, lengthyextractwhenitisremembered Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, “ the overshadowed every other. Strike England, who died in 1879, was one how important is its bearing upon Lord God stand by you.” He did out from the New Testament the of the highest scientific authorities the nebular hypothesis of Laplace, stand by the young man, and Pro doctrines that Christ taught and and was a devout Christian. His which, it is to be feared, is being testantism sprung into being. His Apostles enforced m every let studies in molecular physics led too readily accepted by the world It becomes Americans to cele ter they wrote and in every sermon him to reject the theory of evolu without giving due weight to the brate the birth of Martin Luther they preached, and you will over- tion. In a famous address before difficulties which beset it a» regards more than that of any other man thow the sacred edifice of Christ the British Association, he said ; the origin o£ matter and of force ; “In the heavens we discover by as well as upon that extreme phase bom in Europe. And here, at ianity, for thereby you will have some central and conspicuous point destroyed its very foundation. As their light, and by their light alone, of evolutionism which some men of in the nation’s capital, a monument opposed to Atheism Christ taught stars so distant from each other that scienco prefer to the alternative be should be raised as commemorative Theism. Against Unitarianism He no material thing can ever pass from lief in special and distinct creative of what he was and what he preached the doctrine of the Trinity. one to another; and yet this light, acts by an intelligent First Cause. He. called Himself the Son* of man | which is to us the sole evidence of The greatest physicist of the pres wrought.— Christian at Work. and the Son of God; asserted His f the existence of these distant worlds, ent age has declared that the marks ------------------ , - A man is rich enough when he preexistence and His oneness w ith tells us also that each of them is of skill and handicraft impressed has a little more than he haa-r-and the Father, and spoke of the Holy built up of molecules of the same upon the molecule are a fatal diffi Ghost. Take all the cardinal doc- kind as those which we find on culty in the way of that theory {hat is, never I Doctrinal Preaching. »