THE
Christian Foundation;
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.
INDEX TO VOL. I.
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 |
| [Pg iv] 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 |
| [Pg v] 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 | |
| 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 |
| [Pg vi] 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 |
| [Pg vii] 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 |
Transcriber’s Note
The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved. Only obvious
typographical errors have been corrected.