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.