Produced by Bryan Ness, Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) 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