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 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_ 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 Transcriber's Note The punctuation and spelling from the original text have been faithfully preserved. Only obvious typographical errors have been corrected.