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ell, the Huguenot, Puritan, and Pil- grim Father; which, passing behind the cloud in the eighteenth century, left the church in the chill and darkness of Deism; and which again shining forth produced the nineteenth century tri- umphs of missions and evangelism. We do not wonder that it is offensive to "any thinking clergyman who wants to live and think in today," for it is made for them who' would be abreast of eter- nity, out of which it comes, unto which it leads, and throughout which it shall endure, when the thought of "today" has gone into the yesterdays. EDDYISM A man had a garden. VERSUS THE It did not seem to be MICROSCOPE, doing well, The plants w e r e stunted, spin- dling, sickly. He called in a neighbor, a "Christian Scientist," and asked him what was the matter. "Weeds," said the Scientist, "it is full of weeds." "No," said the man, "there are no weeds; weeds are pure invention of an erroneous imagination." The Scientist replied, "Man, you are crazy. A sane man would know these common pests instantly. There are dock, sand burr, and wire grass, and they are sapping your soil." But the man was steadfast in his denial. The Scientist then brought in neighbor after neighbor, who confirmed his word, each one iden- tifying each particular weed. The man persisted in his opinion, and the Scien- tist left him for a fool. There were sicknesses in a commun- ity. A physician attributed them to divers baccili, or microbes, microscopic plants, invisible to the naked eye. These entering the system, the doctor said, took root in the blood, tissues, or organs of the body, and multiplying produced characteristically yellow fever, diphtheria, tuberculosis, etc. But a "Christian Scientist" disputed the doc- tor: there is no reality in these alleged causes and effects, they were errors of mortal mind. The doctor took him to the laboratory, showed him under the microscopic cultures, or crops, of these various plants, declared that they had been taken respectively from patients afflicted with typhoid, malaria, cancer; were always present in such cases; and
4 1AROUS IA Burkitt, M„ A., P. B. ^ P R O F E S S O R . A., says: "The hope of the second coming of . the Son of Man h,as faded with us into an unsubstantial dream. . . . The true way is to accept the coming of the Mes- siah upon the clouds of heaven to gather his elect together from every quarter, as the natural picture, the natural way of expressing faith and hope in the tri- + u m p h of good over QVil, all that people mean nowadays by Progress." T .y. The Professor's Bible will read thus: "Then shall appear the sign of Progress in heaven: and then shall the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see Progress coming in the clouds of heaven. As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of Progress be. As in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and ^ y giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not ^ until the flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of Prog- (Mat. 24:27, 30, 37-39.) ' "Nevertheless, when Progress cometh shall He find faith on the earth? (Lk. 18:8.) Judging by the Professor, M. A. P. B. A., we should say No! A THINKING We print the following ^¡¡Si CLERGYMAN card, which was handed us from the mailing de- gj,.: partment of that stout defendant and confirmer of the Truth, "The Puxida- ^ mentals," not venturing to alter the ' indignant writer's orthography: . "Dear Sirs: I wish you would tell Kf: the Two Laymen who send out the Fun- damentals how much we appreciate Y' them As soon as we see them come in, we fire them into the stove! They are rV out of date, uutgrown seventeenth cen- tury in thought, an impertinance to this age, and an insult to any thinking clergyman who wants to live and think in today. You would save postage by taking my name off your list. "Yours, • —— What was that "seventeenth century" thought so insulting to the clergyman of today? The flower of the sixteenth century thought that produced the Reformation, Protestant Europe and America; the thought that made Crom- i L t r~ ® ress be."
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