Show FIELD aiels AND INGERSOLL sectarian dogmas abandoned in gerwolls Kera ger mistake spread of Ho mormon doctrines boet rines Tru truthie thIs ever harmonious Science and religion in ia tile tie true sense of the terms can a never be in ia conflict with each 0 the direct revelations of god to man must ever agree with the results of tille investigation invention and discovery are but the unfolding of the laws attributes and objects of nature mature to mans finite understanding the action of the divine will on the minds of men whether man seeks for sui spiritual ritual truth through the revelations of god or looks out upon the material universe and investigates the working ot of physical laws the result must be the same A truth revealed to the sensitive impulsive hu bu man heart today in its full play oi of emotions and passions cannot be at any real variance with the truth writ ten upon a far off planet rolling in tb depths of eor upon a fossil chos w poor life ebbed away thousands v years aso ago yet strange to say a con i ket has been going on tor for axes ages be tween some stude students tits of science on on side and the devotees of religion 0 the other the war his has been wa w e longer the battles have lieen b een fler fiercer the sieves sieges wore persistent perM Stent the dillof di macy wore more far geachis g and the re more deadly than ever charac cha the military campaigns campaign 0 alexander ciesar caesar or napoleon du during ring the last four months th readi reading g public has baa watched with little interest the wordy conflict b tween two of the intellectual giants giant 0 the present age on the side of v what li Is called orthodox christianity stands henry at field DD and nobly hu tie he wielded the sword of on the agnostic side is robert ingersoll whose eloquent eq aud and sparkling wit have awakened ad nitration mi ration 11 let us inquire into the causes of abo conflict and try and understand some so thing it in the first pi wo we must be careful not to under science on every side we s see e I 1 I 1 beneficent effects the food w we e e I 1 the clo clones ches we wear aud and the hous hoi 0 we dwell in depend in a great mea mease C upon it A for their existence when travel it is mostly by the appliances appl lanct ta science the books we read a 6 manufactured by its aid it trans tra wits our messages to and irom from friends anti and prepares the light t 1 c our streets and abelli g I 1 it has contributed greatly to rel e 11 human suffering and promote hum hu v happiness aad to distinguish t civilized from the savage races of t earth and what has religion done long as it was trae and pure it w the favored child of heaven W the true church existed upon rit whether jewish or christian we bea h er of no conflict between its menal al and the students of science on t lo 10 other hand we find from their writing writ r that moses job david solomon oi isal isaiah lah were the leading ociea fist 61 th the ages in ia which they lived anell T A anderst understood bod natural history archil ture tare sculpture poetry and in astronomy they maae such buch ir t 1 gress ress that many of the bonste lions still retain the names the t used such as orion Plea ides etc W V read of no conflict between the atiat arc pai of science and the teachings of P though he was one of the atie most learned tear men mea of the age in which he lived OW the other hand band the discourse of bauh P in the court of the was tho complement or sequel of ideas already alre held by the most celebrated grecia grei philosophers phio phi it should ever be borne in mind aba t p the catholic church vir virtually LUally ad abc in her apostasy she makes no prete ill to direct revelation nor dres does she d pend upon it lor for ner doctrines no even upon th letter of the scripts but upon the traditions of the fathers path in other words the rule of faith I 1 the church of romels rome is the opinions of men often ill III inton and superstitious who lived beta the alle age ot of the apostles arid and the time tim luther luthe C it was not till after the agostas apost when the voice of revelation ceased that the great conflict com c fenced between science and the so cliel 14 christian church yet ever even her apostatized condition the cathell cabb church dr much for the amell oratio of society at the commencement the fourth century of the christian e a cloud of more than camme cimmerian ian di a ness overshadowed western wester eun ro it was then occupied by wande an e 0 savages the period embr embraced aped the next thousand years greatly im proved its condition it was burls du this period that the population we v organized into families cona muni and cities those centuries found foun lull full of bondeen bondmen they lift left it without 0 slave where there had been truckle track forests there were now farms 0 and villages instead of bloo blo chieftains drinking out of 01 their ena mies skulls there were parish sh pries arl teaching the masses the crude bagi be aings of religious thought instead gladiatorial combats which ciarac iced ancient roman th tl were thoughtful men gravely poni pond irig ing the problems of tree free agency a moral responsibility under the direction of the rom ROE church the brotherhood of man r taught as it had bad never been before a was illustrated not merely by indi ual acts of charity the memory y which is soon obscured but ala aasc 0 the establishment of permanent ins in tut ions such as hospitals aim al houses schools school and asylums fort foi relief of the afflicted tor for the spread aprea knowledge and the succoring of t oppressed institutions of which t th are few if any in pagan lands ma JU of her high dignitaries and eve popes were men who had risen fio f toe humbler ranks of society toe tl men to their instincts were oft 0 the champions of right against amigh mi the church in many ways paved t way for modern representative go ern meats ments and prepared the minds mind men tor for their introduction still it was not over nations an communities that rome showed 4 chief power but in ler her control of d bestle and individual interests W she restrained the power and tyran tyra of kings by her influence she also lieveld the hungry beggar or oi wande minstrel mir mic at the monastery apte ii in europe there was not a man oooo too too insignificant or too di dose soli dorher for her roundel Sur by her ties every one received his name at b altar her bell vt t garri id d her knell tolled at his funeral by r confessionals she extorted from 1 m tap secrets of his life and by her riar cea she punished him for his ilag alts in the hour of sickness and aad aube ubie her ber servants sought him out earcel ching aching him to place his bis trust in god id 1 him for the trials trial ol 01 e s by tae example of tle the stood aud and ethl al ot former days and when at his lifeless body had bad become an tense even to his f friends she re lived ived it into her consecrated ground ere to rest till the resurrection ie be raised woman from nearly ie e con dRion of a slave and ade her the equal and fit companion man and in turn received a ree rec by a firm friend la in every erne in an age of bloodshed and under bander she lifted up her hand band la in dease juse of the th 0 walk k s aud ud made her actuaries a the pd 01 oppressed aft y A but here arose the difficulty the o called christian church by acosta j f had lost the key of her decisions depended at upon the voice of revelation at upon the musty parchments parch ments of the i st claiming to be the church of od she regarded her decisions as in ihmle and irrevocable her teachings 0 beyond question her ideas were tier her philosophy if indeed I 1 was worthy orthy of that name was sta as must be the case with 11 II systems re reposing 0 ing oa an a stop atop ge of re revelation ye lation f from rom god lae tie sime might be said of the reed of Luthell Luther iam sm which is only ived ke ie chrystall zed ideas of men who ved in europe years ato aso in like launer presbyterianism is the aeflen I 1 the stern and rugged character ot of ie e scotch in the sixteenth and aevin beven tenth centuries and methodism and quakerism the products of zealous inglish ag sh refe reformers durm dur durtt M the seven tenth and centuries the roman church like many oth I 1 r rs has bail disclosed her human and de 1 red lied her divine origin by attempting 4 9 force fixed laws law on society in the I 1 ire tre sence ot of higher truths and addan I 1 finx m civilization in the domain of 0 tie be roman church during daring the klace ot of 1 thousand years namely from the i line of the apostles to the eleventh 1 ventury not a book had been written j ot at a painting executed nor a statue of sufficient merit to rescue tie he name of the author from oblivion iad ad tue the discoveries and invent inventions iOUS bat at were made between the eleventh ad sixteenth centuries received tor for aie most part the anathemas ana themas of the toman clergy it was therefore in a scientific not as ess than a religious point of view hat many leading minds looked with wor ivor toward that great reat religious ao known as uke Reforma reformation ticia it is quite a common error en or to sup osa so that opposition to science has inana ted from the papal power ex lu when we read of coper licus acus esea escaping ng persecution only by leath of bruno burned alive as a conster of impiety of galileo ira IM irl rl and humiliated as the worst it I misbelievers believers mis we are apt to look upa these things as the effect of romlea but we should not forjet foret et that servetus Servet ns whose greatest rime ame ws that eliat he be had bad partially dis the circulation of the blood was bowly burneo burned to death by t the he leader calvin and keppler nho ho led science on to greater victories than neither copernicus or 3 1 agileo pas hunted boated int and catholic Catti olic nor has this feeling it f intolerance been confined to any calar age on the contrary we its continue continuance nce evem eveh to our wn time dr priestly in 1772 jon jn ae ler 1 in n 1805 sir james Y Simp simpson Sim paon sont in 3 1847 t ri a and n ITT alexander lexander von humboldt Huo boldt in 1859 were each persecuted tor for their scientific discoveries scarcely forty fears have elapsed since both protest tat mt and catholic leaders were de pouncing loun cing geology as 09 an awful evasion I 1 1 I the mony ot of revelation while tach mch honored names as prof sedwick adward hitchcock louis Ast agassiz assiz and hary somerville were denounced deaoun ced arcely ar sely by name lor for those studies which untold unfold the wonders of creation creat crea ioa tiou md ind illustrate the goodness ot of our aea heavenly venly father the lessens thus thug taught are clear 1 md ind convincing many intelligent minds ii perceive that protestants as well as catholics lack not merely the charit ible ble spirit of the gospel but likewise that tat knowledge and authority which i ire the certain results ot of divine estion they are wei weighed gheo ia the bal laces and found wanting want lag in other fords the absurd theories rigid dogmas and heathenish superstitions of ipos apostate tate christianity bear no more re lemb lanee to te the benign and heavenly principles of the gosp goedl I than an an lent jent egyptian mummy with ite ih skeleton eton and ghastly visage ears to the person ot of a bein being a the meridian of his mental and PM physical powers v in this conflict with dr field the arraignment of modern christianity which ingersoll makes is simply ter 1 ible able fastened as it is to the memory beyond the possibility of forgetting b by T the quotations from his opponents awn authorized sectarian works some of i Inger solla sentences amelse full of roth that they will go down ie e columned years like t the e chant 0 of a mighty I 1 aty organ down the aisles of a tat eural some of his bis questions will set men to thinking as they ibey have not thought before but the mistake lies here that ing ersoll makes stat statements emenAs and asks questions as though apostate christianity Christiaa iTy was the real church of christ he as emes that the doctrines taught by vie the presbyterian church go are vh those inculcated by the savior of f men he does not even stop slop to inquire whether the various sects have any aay valid claim to be called christian in the proper sense of that term what would sensible business men think of a person who would acknowledge a bungling bung llna it to be a genuine baux baus bill and then because lie ae could not get it if cashed commence to ridicule all bank back bills yet this is last what Inser soli does throughout we the whole chapter oo on the other hand field betrays his jacket lack ot confidence in apostate christianity ti liau ity by no longer insisting upon nor even asi asserting erting the old dogmas that thai have been in former times the very landmarks land marks of the creeds but it should be remembered that dr field is only developing the ideas outlined by that inci incisive olve and radical reformer of religious thought henry ward beecher who would have thought that an orthodox presbyterian minister would so far abandon the old creed as to even countenance the idea of probation beyond the grave repentance after death T true que he be shirks the responsibility of saying what he be believes by telling us ns what archdeacon D farrar believes but lest we be accused of misinterpreting the rever reverend end gentlemen gentleman we will quote his own words archdeacon farrar of westminster abbey the most eloquent pr preacher eicher in the church of Hu hugland glaud has haa written a book entitled eternal Bl ernal hope 1 in chien he argues from reason and the bible that thi is not the beall be all and end all allol of human proba probation tiou but that in the world to come there will be another opportunity when coun counties tle millions made wiser by unhappy ex peri ence will turn agaba to we paths path of life and that so in the end the whole human race with the exception of perhaps a few who remain irreclaimable will be rec recovered and made happy forever dr field seems to forget that since henry ward Be becchers beechers echers visit to 10 eng land laddin in 1868 1863 archdeacon farrar has seen been one ot of beechers becchers Be echers admirers nay may more farrar has been to some extent Bee Be chera echers disciple when therefore a few years ago beecher one sabbath morning announced to tits his congregation ion that he be believed the doctrine ot of probation beyond the grave arave not only odly did many of et the congregation accept the doctrine but likewise his f friend ric d archdeacon farrar saw the force of Bee Be chera echers arguments and became an ardent disciple of what was called the new doctrine but in tact fact the doctrine was as old as christianity much more joseph smith had bad taught that truth to his bis followers nearly or quite forty years before some were surprised to bear beecher adaoo eting what was well known to be one ot di the distinctive mormon tenets still more surprised were they to hear beecher afterward admit the scriptural proof ot of other mormon doctrines and to find that by means of a relative who was a member me imber of the mormon church and with whom beecher had ha frequent correspondence he was welt well informed concerning the teachings of joseph smith thus we see how mormonism however much the world may affect to despise it is iii wiel wielding dinga mighty influence among the various ranks of men and in the various grades of human society J 11 W |