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THE
OR,
Scientific and Religious Journal.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF
CIVILIZATION, LITERATURE AND CHRISTIANITY.
BY AARON WALKER.
Office, No. 1 Howard Block, N.W. Cor. Main and Mulberry Streets,
KOKOMO, IND.
Science, properly understood, and the Bible rightly
interpreted, harmonize.
INDIANAPOLIS:
CARLON & HOLLENBECK, PRINTERS.
1880.
The conflict between Christianity and unbelief during all the centuries, or what Christianity has encountered, |
1–5 |
The Bible—the background and the picture, |
5–16 |
The origin of dating from the Christian era, |
16 |
The cardinal virtues, |
16 |
A funeral oration by Col. G. De Veveue, and a reply to the same, |
17–20 |
The motive that led men to adopt Darwinism, |
20–23 |
Shall we abandon our religion, |
23–26 |
The domain or province of science, |
26–30 |
Blind force or intelligence, which, |
30–33 |
Species or units of nature, |
33–38 |
The common sin of the church, |
38 |
Mouth glue, |
38 |
Miscellaneous, |
39 |
Man and the Chimpanzee, |
40 |
Spontaneous generation is against axiomatic truth, |
40 |
What stone implements point to, |
40 |
Professor Huxley on the word soul, |
40 |
The influence of the Bible upon civil and religious liberty, |
41–50 |
The orthodoxy of Atheism and Ingersolism, by S.L. Tyrrell, |
50–53 |
The Shasters and Vedas, and the Chinese government, religion, etc., |
54–58 |
Ancient cosmogonies, |
58–65 |
Question relative to force, |
65 |
Question relative to the production of life by dead atoms, |
65 |
Harmonies among unbelievers, Voltaire, Needham, Maillet, Holbach and Spinoza, |
66–69 |
Is God the author of deception and falsehood, or Ahab's prophets, |
69–72 |
Darwinism weighed in the balances, |
72–78 |
Did the sun stand still—was it possible, |
79–80 |
The influence of the Bible upon moral and social institutions, |
81–91 |
Law, cause and effect, |
91–93 |
The inconsistency of unbelievers, the unknown, or incomprehensible; we know the incomprehensible, but no man knows the unknown, |
96–98 |
Was it right for the Israelites to engage in war and slay men, |
98–101 |
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It only needs to be seen to be hated, or the speech of a radical infidel; art liberty, and political free discussions, who may indulge in them; self-government and the ballot-box; Calvan Blanchard's Thomas Paine, |
101–105 |
Did the race ascend from a low state of barbarism, |
105–108 |
The flood viewed from a scientific and Biblical standpoint and Dr. Hale's calculation as respects the capacity of the ark, |
108–111 |
The Mosaic law in Greece, in Rome and in the common law of England, |
111–115 |
Did Adam fall or rise, |
116–118 |
Did they dream it, or was it so? Was it mythical? Could the witnesses be mistaken, |
118–119 |
Three important questions which infidels can not answer, |
119 |
Many questions that can not be answered by unbelievers, |
120 |
Is there a counterfeit without a genuine, or Christianity not mythical in its origin, | 121–130 |
Professor Owen upon the line between savage and civilized people, |
130 |
Origen Bachelor on design in nature, |
131–138 |
Blunder on and blunder on, or blunders in science; the extinct animals, |
138–143 |
Draper's conflict between religion and science does not involve Protestant religion, |
143–146 |
What Christianity has done for cannibals, |
146–148 |
Are we simply animals? And the lexicographers on the term translated Spirit; its currency in ancient and modern times, |
149–154 |
What are our relations to the ancient law, and the ancient prophetic teachings, |
155–158 |
The funeral services of the National Liberal League, |
158–159 |
Huxley's Paradox, |
159 |
The triumphing reign of light—Winchell, |
160 |
Voltaire and an atheist at loggerheads upon the origin of life, |
160 |
Only a perhaps—Voltaire, |
160 |
The Sabbath, the Law, the Commonwealth of Israel, and the Christ; the law of Christ bound upon the world, |
161–174 |
Infidels live in doubting castle—by Alexander Campbell, in 1835, true to-day, |
174–177 |
Infidelity, or the French and American revolutions in their relations to Thomas Paine, |
178–184 |
Shall we unchain the tiger, or the fruits of infidelity?—by A.G. Maynard, |
184–187 |
The struggle—shall we have an intellectual religion, or a religion of passion at the expense of truth, |
188–195 |
The records respecting the death of Thomas Paine, |
195–198 |
Theodore Parker on the Bible, |
198 |
The last words of Voltaire, |
198 |
Three reasons for repudiating infidelity—by Bishop Whipple, |
199 |
Ingersoll's contradiction, and an old poem, |
199–200 |
The work of the Holy Spirit; What is it? What are its relations and uses?, |
201–211 |
Credibility of the evidence of the resurrection of the Christ, |
211–215 |
Broad-gauge religion—shall the conflict cease?, |
215–221 |
Papal authority in the bygone; the infidel's amusing attitude, |
221–229 |
"Even now are there many anti-Christs in the world", |
229–232 |
What is to be the religion of the future?, |
232–235 |
Bill of indictments against Protestants—eight in number, |
235–238 |
A summary of grand truths, |
238 |
A crazy pope, |
238 |
Ethan Allen, the infidel, and his dying daughter—a poem, |
239 |
Truth is immortal—Bancroft, |
240 |
The fountain of happiness, |
241–249 |
Indebtedness to revelation—colloquial—by P.T. Russell |
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| No. 1, | 249–254 |
| No. 2, | 289–293 |
| No. 3, | 331–334 |
| No. 4, the divine origin of language and religion, | 375–379 |
| No. 5, language and religion, | 408–412 |
| No. 6, the nature of man necessitated revelation, | 457–464 |
Do we need the Bible?, |
255–259 |
The unfair treatment of Bible language by infidels, |
260–263 |
Geology in its struggles and growth as a science, |
263–267 |
Pantheism is deception and hypocrisy, |
268–273 |
The origin of life and mind, |
273–279 |
A hard question for infidels to answer, |
279 |
Difficulty in the fire cloud theory, |
280 |
The infidel's offset to the doctrine of Calvinism, |
280 |
The importance and nature of reformation from sin—a sermon, |
281–289 |
Thomas Paine was not an infidel when he wrote his work entitled "Common Sense", |
293–295 |
A cluster of thoughts from Jenning's internal evidences, with modifications and additions, |
295–300 |
The resurrection of the Christ, |
300–304 |
Public notoriety of the Scriptures, |
304–305 |
What people have been and done without the Bible, |
306–310 |
The latest evolutionary conflict, from the Cincinnati Gazette, |
310–314 |
Books of the New Testament, Porphyry, Julian, Hierocles and Celsus, with a tabular view of the ancient persecutions, dated and located with Nero, Domitian, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, |
315–318 |
Testimony of Tacitus, Juvenal and Seneca, |
316–317 |
Diocletian's coin blotting out the very name Christian, |
317 |
Strauss—who wrote them, |
317 |
When the books of the New Testament were written, along with contemporary landmarks, tabulated, |
318 |
Carlyle's estimate of the book of Job in his own words, |
319 |
What I live for, |
319 |
The Molecule God, Punch's poem, |
320 |
The divinity of our religion as it is conceded by its enemies, |
321–331 |
Infidels in a logical tornado, |
334–338 |
Religious hysteria, or instantaneous conversion, by George Herbert Curteis, M.A., and how John Wesley got to be a "faith alone man," convulsionists, etc., |
338–345 |
Things hard to believe, by D.H. Patterson, |
345–348 |
The result of ignorance viewed from the skeptic's standpoint, or Duke of Somerset and Huxley quotations, or the contrast, |
348–349 |
What do evolutionists teach? Dedicated to C.T., of Danville, Indiana. Origin of germs, |
349–355 |
When should children become church members, |
355–356 |
Our indebtedness to the Jews, |
357–358 |
The second five points in Calvinism, with two other fives, |
358–359 |
Benjamin Franklin's epitaph as an exponent of his faith; honesty, or the inner-self, |
360 |
Law and atonement, |
361–370 |
The simplicity of the science of mind, individual, what does it mean, |
370–375 |
Mind and instinct, or strictures on the teachings of evolutionists, |
379–382 |
Revival of learning—to whom are we indebted? The art of printing originated with the love of the Bible, |
382–386 |
The Councils, or unity of the Roman Church, |
386–392 |
Infidels in evidence in favor of Christianity, Logansport, |
392–395 |
Woman and her rank, |
395–398 |
Ingersoll's estimation of a drunkard, logical deduction, |
398 |
The infidel Rousseau on the books of the New Testament, |
399 |
The religion of the Jews known among heathen writers, |
400 |
Centuries before Christ—Berosus, Manetho and Sanchoniathon confirm the facts of the Bible, |
400 |
Coleridge on the Bible, |
400 |
The life and character of our religion, |
401–408 |
Carlyle's estimate of the Bible, |
412 |
Force and life, Dr. J.L. Parsons, |
413–418 |
Alleged contradictions answered, by request from Logansport, |
418–421 |
Some things that need thought, |
421–423 |
The religion and society of Greece, |
424–427 |
The relation of Christianity to human greatness, |
427–431 |
Col. Ingersoll's truth telling business, logical deduction, |
431 |
The theory of the original Freethinkers as given by themselves, with remarks upon their advancement, |
432–435 |
What a man may be and be a Christian, or Col. Ingersoll tied up, |
435–437 |
Life and force are not the same, |
438 |
Macaulay on Sunday, |
438 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's estimate of the Christ, |
439–440 |
Little Myrtie Bogg, |
440 |
Is the sinner a moral agent in his conversion, |
441 |
Where shall we take infidels to get them out of unbelief, |
464 |
Councils—No. II, |
468 |
Free thought in Germany, France and Russia; or, Russian Nihilism, |
471 |
Axioms lying at the foundation of all philosophy and religion, |
474 |
Estoppels; or, fossilization, |
476 |
To keep a room pure, |
479 |
Interesting facts, |
480 |
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The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
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