T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S preaching will be in the miniature in future or with the power and unction that characterized it in those glorious days when the multitudes fell like trees upon which the fires from the storm clouds had descended.” DOINGS OF DARWINITES ECENTLY the New York Times carried a vigorous attack on Darwinism by Hon. William J. Bryan. The next week the Times had somewhat lengthy replies to Mr. Bryan by Professor Osburn and Professor Conklin. To these replies Mr. Bryan had a brief reply in the Times, as follows: “ To the Editor of the New York Times: I presume no rejoinder is ex pected to the answers of Professors Os burn and Conklin, but I am sure you will pardon me if I trespass upon your time long enough to thank you for the compliment you pay me in having two professors write in their effort to reply to one’ layman. You have rendered a distinct service to your readers in bringing two distinguished ‘tree men’ down from their arboreal lodgings to terra firma. “ Usually when a professor, of the guessing variety, curls his intellectual tail, so to speak, around a limb of Dar win’s family tree, he is too high for the public to understand what he says. From his lofty position he naturally looks down with amusement upon the plain, common people, who, instead of claiming aristocratic ape ancestors, are content to believe that they were made in the image of God. “ The answers of the professors whom you selected have exhibited all the char acteristics of their class. They misrep resent their opponents, look with con tempt upon all those who do not ex haust the alphabet in setting forth their degrees and evade the issue which they pretend to discuss. The evidence upon
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which they condemn the Bible would not be sufficient to convict an habitual criminal of petty larceny in any court in Christendom. “ They prate about science, and warn Christians not to attempt to ‘confute science by the Bible.’ They seem ignor ant of the definition of science, namely, thaf it is classified knowledge. They string guesses together and demand that unsupported hypotheses shall be substi tuted for Bible truth. They dodge the real question and refuse .to state how much of the Bible they regard as con sistent with Darwin’s hypothesis. “ But as far as evidence can be drawn from what they do say, it is evident that they regard the discovery of the bones of a five-toed horse as a greater event than the birth of Christ. There ought not to be any doubt of the baneful in fluence such teaching will exert on young men and women trained in Chris tian homes and taught to regard the Bible as the Word of God.” ■ A PANTHEIST IN EDEN A pantheistic minister met the late Dr. Emmons one day, and abruptly asked, “ Mr. Emmons, how old are you?” “ Sixty, sir; and how old are you?” “ As old as the creation,” -was the answer in a triumphant tone. “ Then you are of the same age with Adam and Eve?” “ Certainly; I was in the garden when they were.” “ I have al ways heard that there was a third per son in the garden with them,” replied the doctor with great coolness, "but I never knew before that it was you,” ; ’ . , HAPPY ON THE WAY Quoth the colored man at Colonel Clark’s Mission in Chicago: “ Bredren, when I gets to de gates ob heben“, if dey shuts me out, I’ll say, ‘Anyhow I had a good time getting h e r e /”
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