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CHRISTIAN
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only aS an introduction.— Christian it from a distance through a tele-
Intelligencer.
scope, examines it closely with a
microscope, and pronounces it an
S ound D octrine .—Since writ­ evolution by natural selection,
ing our article on the “ ordination ” through the power of forces inher­
of our missionaries at Island Park ent in the molecular structure of
the Old Path Guide reaches us con­ the original protoplasm. In other
taining a strong article from the pen words, the whole thing came of
of the senior editor, Bro. F. G. Allen, itself ! The advance of science has
on “ Dangerous Indications,” from indeed been wonderful 1 The or­
which we clip the following para- derly arrangement of parts is no
proof of an intidtfgentirfaker. ^6t~
with that of the Romish church in
atnlf-^antsaysitd^^^
in tiiè“clay s ul TélÉèl Wid" oFEeo X. "==RTs¥gmlNTr c'HnìsffXSrÌTY.—
We see that during the Sunday- settles it, for Kant is the metaphy­
And the same old spirit is mani­ Christian at Work says :
school Convention at Island Park, sical giant and sole judge on the
The
annual
meeting
of
the
dele
­
our missionaries to India and Japan
festing itself here on the Pacific
gates
and
representatives
of
church
­
were “ ordained.” We are curious bench of the final court of appeal.
Coast. But notwithstanding all ’
es of Christ in Great Britain and
Kant says—we quote the language •
their tirad of abuse, the Reforma­ Ireland, pleading for an unqualified to know by what authority this
was done. The only authority we ofone
his expounders—“ order
tion of Luther grandly moves on. j return to- primitive Cfiristiamty-in have for ordination connects it with ¡n the world implies only the intel-
If Protestants.would now only add all its purity ami simplicity, as a church of Jesus Christ. Ordina­
ligence of the th inking subject to___
a restoration of primitive Chris­ given to mankind by- Christ and tion, in New Testament times, was
whom the world appears. The
tianity to the well begun work of his apostles, was held two weeks not a mere incidental thing happen­
since in the church at Wigan. The ing here or therg^ this w^orithaL world is orderly, because only £s
the sixteenth century, the victory., drirgatrs—rrnd~-TO^mTjer^ppg
as circumstances determined, with­ orderly could it become known to
over Romanism would be complete. churches assembled in this confer­ out any established divine order. It
an intelligent being. Not the
ence disclaim all power to legislate is vicious reasoning to conclude that
T he G ospel in A sta M inor .— for the churches at large, or to in­ ordination had no uniform order world in itself, but the world for
During the first century of the termeddle in the affairs of any in because some of its features, men­ thinking beings, is to be viewed as •
Christian era, the apostle Paul dividual church. The conference is tioned otherwhere»* are sometimes orderly.” Cant must have been a
traveled extensively over Asia held simply fo?* cooperation in omitted in the account This is the great joker, a prince at "making, u
evangelistic werfe------------- ---- —— "very principle on winch the sectar-
conundrums. Ordinary language
Mmbrpreacliing tbe" gospeT’and es­
ian
would
deal
with
the
conditions
We are always more than glad
is not equal to the expression of
tablishing churches. It was not
of salvation. We have no intima­
to
note
such
indications
of
a
return
long till many of these churches
tion of an ordination apart from a our admiration. We turn to the
—lost thei r first lev», and during the- jtQ— primitive. -Cluistiaiuty - as—the cTuircTT wTUr w 1 ncTT"the ordained college-wys an<L borrow a phrase
course of time, when Romanism and above paragraph affords. We hope' were connected. We cannot avoid from them, and say that that way of
infidelity swept over that country, the time will cóme when most or all the conclusion, therefore, that the putting the thing is “ immense.”
“ ordination ” at Island Park was a
t in spite of Kant and Hegel
all traces of apostolic Chrirtianity of Christendom will see the truth
as it is, and will thus be led to I usurPafi°n
church authority; a and Huxley and Spencer and all the
were
c for more efficient
a: • x work
i upon 1 | contravention
of while
God s appointment,
- obliterated. Thus the matter
*
un
’
te
W(J
learn
t|
,
at
at fte restof them, men of sound common
has stood till recently; but now it
Sunday-school Convention, it was sense will believe when they see a
gives us great pleasure to know the Bible «Ione.
not by it. The convention gave Cor lisa„engine..drivingmachinery
that the gospel as Paul preached it_
P aul ’ s S uccess .—A missionary way till this performance was over. that there is or has been a Mr. Cor­
is Teing preached in that same ter-
We presume that at a picnic, or an
< ritory by a native Armenian, con­ in China,.recently preaching before old fashioned barbecue, the same liss. And mon of sound common
his brethren, called attention to the
verted and educated for his work different results achieved by the thing might have been done. If sense when they see the order and
arrangement of the universe, work­
in the United States. Read the great Apostle in Athens and in Cor­ not, why not ?
ing out beneficent ends, will believe
following from the brother referred inth, the former furnishing .very few
to taken from the Christian Stand­ believers but the latter a multitude;
D ESIGN. Evidences of design are in an almighty, intelligent, wise
and
he
explained
it
by
saying
that
Creator and Ruler: And if the
ard. Surely the dry places shall
in one Paul preached only »Christ, no proof of the existence of a de­ philosophers and men of science do
be watered and the desert set with the wisdom of God and the power signing intelligence. This is so be­
not pretty soon abandon the silly
roses:
of God, while in the other he bowed cause Kant uadL.Hegel and Spencer trash they have been talking and
S ivas , Aug. 9.—Last Lord’s day before the philosophic spirit and and Huxley say so, and because a printing for a few years past, they
morning I commenced preaching in yielded to the demand for logical materialistic science and the “ ad­ will be overwhelmed before long
the Protestant church in this place. display and worldly wisdom. This
under an avalanche of contempt.
It is a church that separated from seems to us an entire mistake. In vance of science ” demand it. Or­
us events occur. At the re—
another Protestant church in Sivas the first-place, Paul's stay at Athens dinary men of sound common sense cent annual meeting of the Ameri­
six or seven years ago. They built was short, only “ while he waited ” will say, “ So much the worse for can Association for the Advance­
themselves a house of worship, de for Silas and Timothy, whereas he the philosophers and scientific sa­ ment of Science, Principal Dawson,
ciding to take the Bible only as was more than eighteen months at vants.” To bring the matter to a of Montreal, one of the the first of
their guide, and continued to meet Corinth ; and the harvest is usually
living geologists, led off, in his ad­
for a time, but they were not proportioned to the sowing. In the point, let us suppose that a man en- dress as retiring President, with a
sufficiently taught in the Scrip­ next place, his “ disputing ”* in the counters a Corliss engine, driving strong argument against Evolution,
tures, and when 1 came, a few days Athenian synagogue (Acts 17 : 17) several machines producing useful and a considerable number of tho
ago, I found they had scattered and was no doubt the same with his articles ; he is not to believe or sup­ eminent men there assembled agreed
seldom came together for worship. “ reasoning ” in the Corinthian pose that there is a Mr. Corliss. To with him. One of them said at the
Several of the members came to see (18 : 4), there being no difference in
close of the session in regard to the
me at once. They had correspond­ the original term ; and the bulk of do so would be illogical and un- theory of evolution, “ It hasn’t one
ed with me, read my tracts and his teaching in most places must philosophical, according to the
fig leaf of ascertained fact to cover-
were well informed of our teach­ lave been identical. The address philosophy and logic now the fash­
ing. They invited me to preach in on Areopagus was exceptional, and ion in some, so-called, scientific cir­ its nakedness of speculation.” An­
their church. I soon had large besides, it was interrupted in the cles. The engine and machinery do other said, “Neither its author, nor
his disciples, have been able, by any
audiences and attentive listeners. midst. Had he been allowed to
The first two days resulted in six finish, the cross’ would no doubt not prove the existence of a Mr. amount of research, lo find a parti­
confessions. Up to to-day there have come out as plain and con­ Corliss or any other Mr. Science ble of evidence to support it.” Such
as it did anywhere else. must be called in to explain the were the words of two of the most
have been ten confessions. I will spicuous
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distinguished members of the Asso­
remain another week longer. I “
' Grand philosophic truth’’ was used ■ phenomenonj and science looks at ciation.— Christ ian Intell igencer,
Jishing everything concerning him
that is in any way calculated to
damage -bis- - roputatioft;—At the
headquarters of thè Papal.See pre-
Ìjarations, it is said, are being made
dr the publication of two volumes
jof documents relating to the great
Reformer’s career^ with the same
depreciatory object in view.”
The Freeman’s Journal, of this
city, breaks out into a tirade of
abuse of Luther and of his follow­
ers, manifesting a malignant and
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baptized them three miles out from
the city, before an immense crowd.
-Could" I remain’iiefe' a few months^
I am sure the Lord would reward
my labors beyond all expectations.
Protestantism was first introduced
in Sivas by my uncle about thirty-
five years ago. He suffered perse­
cution and imprisonment, and died
in the work which he loved for his
Masters sake. I feel that I am
reaping the fruits of his labors.—
G. N. S hishmanian . .
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