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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1890-12-25, Page 24 TIITA ATODERN PULPIT .RETAIGION, A,ND 1ODBBTSQLEITOB, anthropology hasactually removed usfurther For the klea a God, is neither emphilosos ment. Impatient of delay, unaccustomed ,from the proof of seh a connection e, tiv . phicalisor =scientific. In two essays, pub- to weigh evidezece, with A theory cut•and- " when we study the fossilmau of the quater- hashed some years ago on the "Nature of 'dried to account for each fact as it emerged. nary period, who must, of course, haveetood Atoms " mad the" Origin of Force," the late entirely indepeodent, of any examination of comparatively near to our primitive ances- Sir defin Herschela-an illustrious and ven- the fact itself, they passed, apparently'with- Ry en the order of descent, or rather a as. erable navae-distinctly arrives at the con- out any consceous Mock, from the undoubt- Be The• Bishop otemmeneseer. cent, we always flail a man, just such as elusion that, except. upon, the hypothesis g conieti invm thet the man before them was 'An there are divemiries of operations, ut men are now;'and thee "we marmot teachi of a presiding miad, a hypothesis based on a, murderer, to the equally undoubting coo- d b Stu thesante mod who worketb. ail hi elle' we cannot pronounce it to be a, conquest of the phenomena of =maven emmelouseese and victim that be was a god. No sane roan, -1 Corinthians xii. 6. science, that mart descends tom the eke or the ascertained powers a our °wee will, the since the scientific temper has been formed, As one reads the list of sueeessive victor- 1front any other animal; we can only indi- organisation of atoms and the derivation a wool venture, in a platter of religion, to ies of sciencewithin the last 50 years one is 1 cat e it as a irminhesis, however probable it force arebothinexplicableand inconceivable, draw such random conclusions as these, Lost in amazement at the vast domains that may seem, azia however obviousa solution Certainly this hypothesis does not seem. to have been brooth ght, in e progress of siiien- i it may appear." And he adds, n the very mreligious inquirer the proper freme of mind e less reasonable or even less scieotifie " Again, the philosophic lias taught the tifie investigation, out of the power of sense in which I aloe:raking these remarks, than the theory of Lucretius, who in a fa. in which every inquiry, iit is to have darkness into the assured inheritauee of the Laud with all the weight of his acknowledged mous address was matched against Bishop f Overhaug ltildren ofOverhangingMais ast vauthority, " vright at present to Butler -and meant, I think, to have the a, good result, muse he pursued. It must triumphal procession I trace, however, the be undertaken, not to fortety a fore- edoled. In this record of We hae no gone conclusiou, but with the simple dei d one element of disquietude. It is just this, stated in the front of my sire to discover truth. i How legible,' said outline of a single Goethe, writing to a friend, ' the book of conquests 1 fin thesis, simply, broadlymnequivoeallys-Will there at last, when the final problem is solv- ed, beanie placeleft for God, for Christianity, for prayer, for conscienee, for free WM, for responsibilk , for duty, for faith in the unseen?, " ts progress In seience, says a as the basis ex instructton, espect- untecems. certain writer `is the true test of the ally the attempt to dispossess the "But miracles," some me may say, "both civilization of a, nation." Will there, when Church, and to supplant its dogmas from the scientific and from the philosophic - the perfeet epee& has arrived, be any recoge forthwith hy a religion of evolution- al point of view are impossible. You: COW tatiOn Of iOtkedieeS like these, which have be assured, every such attempt will make not expect me to believe them." 1 - yelp. t.9 believe therliote eriaillegiance that is due to truth. And once mere, The philosopher has assuredly counted for eomethin,g among the sleipsameek, and in its wreck will also briug of course, force factors of civilization in the.past, and with. with it the greatest perils for the whole ani 1 prepared to say that a Christian faith out which, I doubt me, smence, whatever position of ficience." And "if,'said Pro cannot exist without a. belief in them, as. often slaown more faith than the theologian point or pregrees she may have reached, will fessor Phiaips, with that piety that sat so mirecles. And I quite feel the a, priori ob- in the conviction embodied in the maxim, hardly have accomplished, the highest. de- naturally upon laian, "natural selection be jection to them, as violations of, or at least 4 Napa est Veritas et preruiebit.' Hobe -Heves velopment of man? thue gifted with the power of go/lane:any rewiations from i known, law. But,es, in the power of truth, to uudattaio iteelf by 'nese aseestiens, pet in no captious spirit, acting for the good ,f its subject, encomogi James Paget says, , hoionee osnnotdaseaTe its own proper evidence, without formiag are not supertleons, "Eery science, and ing it, or rather compelling it toecontinual or infer all possibilities." Paley's position :tuicein,a,Htnertsallislinocesni boerenetfltedgitno efoxrtereinshelse espeeially every philosophy,' says Buchner, "muss necessarily be atheistic-, otherwise it limits up ageinst itself the path to its own watchful Providence, winch, once brought And, aa to the hlitt°s0Phleal °hleett'i'll tif Irity. He feels that doginee must rest upon *La, the trettlis " In spite ot the vehement into view, sheals a new light over the whole Hume the seine strong reasoner says, "here., or at least .,probable, warrents betore deweveiation of it by M. Pasteur, lia.ickel picture of ,muses and effecte. is a want of logical matice in a steterneut they I am aware Abet Professor Huxley has., which, while affirmiug the ineredibil- can be thoroughly. received. He would and the late Profereor Clifferal assert, thet we must assume the theory of spontaneous given itiquirers a choice betweell three ity of miracles. suppresses all those dm, tory at least to himself, for whiat he profess., have every man able to give a reason, satisfac- genererion; otherwise the theory of er0^ theories. " Either be must beliene that the cumstancee of extenuation -which result 'es 0 believe, And in the selfsame spirit, melon leeks emnpleteuces, and there is innumeralae variety et creatures now exiat- from our knoiviedge of the exieteme, Pani, Mill room muet we not say there i3 still ing, anal all the forms of the long geological power, and disposition of the Deity; Hi who, whether while sitting at the feet or front the natural tendency of need, for the hypothesis of a Personal Creae series, ham been spontanconely generated concern in the creation, and the end answer! egsGeasiTimieilnid, had eatightehe true temper of tor. Miracles nave been declared, mein without any particular reason, or that eitch ed by thentirecle; the importance of that end endagain, to be incempatible with there:ten- has been produced by a special creative ilat, and, its subserviency to the plau pursued in • of els phi -wiling was, modem philosophy, teller us that the one aim "by manifestation oi two conception of law; and that 0 warm or he =est acampt the doctrine 01 descents" the work of luttnre." " EIMWS celebrated the truth, to commend himselfto every MOM'S mind% sounlie as if they were iinnossibith But as this awesonplisheil professor tells tut principle," says Me, Ji a, mill, "that nothi conecience in the asightorGoa,"andwasueevr It iiae been peopeeed to test the value of he has "alt his life had a horror of litnitiug mg is credible which ia contrary to experi- prayer by strauge and as I suppose they the possibilities of things," I submissively' enee, or at variance with the laws of nature, .satiefied. with the result which he bad pro, dewed, unless he left' every man fully per - were thought to be crucial experamentes A ask, Is it the province of science to tell me is merely this very Imendess proposition, waded in bis own mind , set up this possible connection as a _doctrine lost of the argument -who held that the of sconce; and lmust enter my deculedproi Atoms ha.d their source of motion in them- testagainst theattepapt temake a premature selves, and that by virtue of a certaieeiclime. extension a our doetnnes in thee manner, men • that is given to them, and with the nature becomes to me . Much as 1 fin that and to be ever anew thrusting into the very help ofeertain little hooks WhiCh are attaollecl is new, 1 find nothing that is emeepeete,e, foreground of our expositions that which has to cede, they form their affinites-the atoms so often Fovea an Insoluble problem. Any with niost hooks forming the matter of because 1 hems no system, and desire nothing attempt to transform our Problems lute greatest density -and SO constitute the aes but the pure Meth. And perhaps the book doctrines, to iutroduce our hypothesis tual elemental substances of the world i of grace would become as intelligible to the book of naturebecame to him, if we sought, to possess ourselves of its coutents with the same simplicity of purpose, and made our love of theological system audour reverence sten of Bacon or Luther determined which for ecclesiastical authority bend to the high- endofteshe Dimiackmenshsoutfildusbecathmeeheaanydierh.elped give. the world a new and more tremendous Christmas. A pair of Imre feet in the snow, a hut without the, a, mouth without food, were scenes that become uneuduralde of Europe and England had a habit of keep- ehadoife to after tar away front the moons nue the church, genius a society stooa too for awasy from I the state, and all the lofty and haughty Charles Diekens had made the wrongs and griefs of children visible. The large folks ing their eyes shut when they were any- see its wonders. Nature coin - advancement -how es tins benetteent. per- is impregnable, Only believe that there le pell d Charlestrek a to live with eat 1 --,, conclusions onthosewhomhecannotpersuade where near a suffering boy or girl. When hem, eieep with, tem ooth, the indomitable SiaimmmmmmmemW MARLED MOMS AND IIIIDISTMAS. Worlds once set in mesaon ao not stop cull/ • The maim once nttesed over slander, "a There is really no suck thing in the inteli word once spoken is 'revocable," /A as tr114 • ectual world as a one -mea powers How-- of a good law or a good sentiment as it is of . lever conspicuous a name may be in SCOne de malicious insinuation. The neglected pertinent of thought, there are other names children of earth having been led around. ta which ought to share in the profits read hon. tbe front by means of wit, irony, laughter, ors of results. The names of great military and sympathy of a mostpopular writer, they generals stand alone, because the memory will never pass around to the rear of the cannot carry the personalities of all the val- army of educated men emit women. To in le =Me officers and privates who served under vent the steam engine was a the chief, A single term thus becomes a diffieult task, but to forget it is impos- 1,E7 mental and, literary conveniences Instead of sibles To discover liberty was dila- h mentioning the member and the entire rol cult, but now that it has come it can never e of all the soldiers who crossed the Delaware be blotted out of menie heeds, If our na- on that Christmas night, the event stands in history and upon moves as "Washington Crossing the Delaware," about six thousand patriots being omitted. A similar necessity of condeosetion and not soon blight the truth they =yelled, brevity makes Lord Bacon bring iuto the Thus the poor schoolboys, the newsboys world the inductive philosophy, and Luther tlie bootblacks, the little Tines, the little brMg in. the Reformatien. The more exact Ma.dges of the western nations will always historic fact is that the form of philosophic happen thought was changing when Damn came; to the wourrebeaioberettethreC l bookssris ti taulasat isakne fag ems and religious belief and inquiry were in a by Charles Dickens had been read amid uni- great commotion when Luther appeared, versa laughter and tears. Things hung in equilibroio, and the heavy It is net known that, in order to see I well ony piece of ground or blimie of. genes or drop Of snow, one must aet.hown mto it mentally and do away wohill distance which renders all objects obscure. The difficulty between science and the moon is that man is compelled to stay too tion Was slow to uneliron its slaves, it , be slower still to forge new chains for the !- Africans, What if Wilberforce and Garri, son are falling into neglect, the oeglect senitication to he separated from an ever- a God„ and miraeleS are DIA incredible,* ,°Re seeks to imp-a:eon° creed by mere autho, theee ere did open it WaS to see how best little map, Dias, mop, maitys„ and nweitanieal, automatic theory of volition anteiDickens days even the churelt could to a 'filial " a le " a "I'. II aSa TOM, Ile NAV their SOU% And at ISA andIndie more clearly than et could discern wrote them downs " Whet Buoy= did for eaele Christiau, see the Peaked and ignometpeople of Africa ans Needing feet, and hungry feces in Lon. Diekens dia for each child. Bunyan gave don. form and, race to religious doetnnes, He The drama of Charles Dickens opens with toratigrttngleittaugtiZee'lloienrerasnogn;618edanadlt8tihnesgilolotc'd quite a stage full of facts. His parents were dreadfully poor. They were as dull and. their way to and bad experience of men and women on cola as they were poor. Their little bay lesion was maae into a picture, with du as good and had destinies. Ro- of all the poor m..411'1,1111 allEnglands wee one of the hdtthtesti moat emi4ftive apswamp or ree es pack for the shoulders, with ho was only nineyearia old he was Whenforee.to /dram a$ a neat gate on a hill. Time, under go out to work for 0 shillings a week. Ile the touch of Mr. Dickens, all the details of vas eompelled to assoeiate with a had order the tender years of ehildren assume the form of boys. Ile was so sensitive and ambi- of amazum external reelitiee. Seenes,eounds aghosts, and auimals are pressed hits> the ser vice of a. broad charity. what I ought to believe, or what I ought to that, whatever la contradictory to al " It derogates nothing Vora the claims or tious that his work a,nd associetions were a has Mien propounded, wheel/. to riam mind% know? Whichever of these alteruative complete induction, is increaible. . . . appears to dispose vonscience, and make the theories be adopted, if no other is possible, A miracle," he goes on to say, ,, las was tvalue of religiou to acknowledge these obli• daily humiliation, but his pareutsseemed to ations which she owes to science. She has ' want nth aieg of the boy except the mo oney After Mr. Dickens has listened. to a chime ideas of mate era respensibility utterly ill- I still fall back on the higher truth, "There justly renlarked by Brown) is no contradho een rendered more precious. more attract- ae could bring home ()Read* payeley. f Christmas bells, then the common mind It 1.8 a ive, by becoming more reasonable. It is a This hardship worked well in the can Also hear the words he heard. Indeed, weary. are diversities of working, but it is the same mon te the jaw of emee,e and effect; 4 It eaunot he denieal that them views, put Goa who -moreetit all things in all." mew effect introduced by a ilew vailsei °f ' 'reasonable service h -e. true spiritual wor- for, when the grub tweed into a butterfly, end, it ean lament the stupidity that had to wait for a book to come along and miaow theta ferweral he the name of seiev,k,e, and by some the ad me of that cause if it exist there • • • , 1 ' el Ufa leminne profes.som, have causea alarm and aneivey III many initials -du eray owe, among the monher-auti while trove the con - of the tided iteelf, it is imposeiltie t6A refuse assent to any demonetrateal ,ran h - es euineeeible 03 it would he for eane ivied to refeee assent to the COnehligOLI of the 5th Premositien of the First Book of Euclid - helmet:. tiireeteniug that truth may fOCIII to idea.; mviereilv entertaie.ea, the Onxustienee, , , up, a e aro . o g . there wasno in alt. boyhooda form o we can be no iloulit; and the only euehte,esed!,e't Alunghty God demigods from His ereatures. or wisdom or laughter or crying or torture with lanhinage. The chimes said 1 improbability which on be ascribed to eue lee would be no wise main who would wish that was not welt known to this mature toil. Toth" veek, TIT. Teeth "rig ter you, Por litte-oltorettirn Vedic Weave of superetition for i er when he came et age. His case seems one TV,II,le,' fik.,1.1), ',,-=',11.:egusf you, 7. miracle, is the imprebability that any h cause had existeuee in this cases All, I "ere"' the sake of esenping. the posssilile perils of lot those in which an Oxford or Cambridge !Meg him to us, drag him to us, fore, which gum has made out 18, that HO seentioism. Mem es a safer mese from long course of steely would have destroyed flaunt and hunt him ; haunt and hunt him; evidence caul be sufficient to prove amiraele ti ' le els Which I admit to be real • • Break his slumbers, breim hisslumbers, .. Toby 1, eek, Toby N ea. door open nide. . Toby Veck- And mien reading then words with a solemn Jingle it becomes perfectly evident that all those'Decemher hells home been say- ing kind words for ages, but saying them into stupid ears. Never since this literary artist lived and died has ally gray church, tower uttered its voice upon the eve or night - that commemorates the tar mile of Jesus with- out sa.ying, amid storm or toll; Feed the eldhiren, feed the children. Think of Tim, think of Tim - Nor will bells or dilutes ever be wordless again. A great laughter, a great, joker, a THU COxibicr MATE'S RELIGION AND mum. - A conilict between the claims of religion and the claims of sisience upon the allegii nee of the human mind, as though _Way were rautuallt exclusive atel aettagonistec, the nature riches of a punt . let a toss is a ceniliet tlilat no wise man would desire to one who dial not previously heifer° the not imaginary. The peril would. be pest, if . of ten years in Greek, Latin, and matlectuae to. prnvoke. For it would be a emeilitt 'existence of a being or beings with super- ouly the spirit of inquiry were peneIreted tie:shad, interfered with the nature of this ralseill upon a false issue. Each can pursue natural power: or who believed himself to by a litrii rer measure of 'reverence and god. poor boy and liadseparatedhim forever from have full proof that the character of the , ets own Ivey, et it will only bear in mend its the world's Tom Pipers and Bob Sawyera 1 a ma enotaticeal repugnance to be driven tore* of tie i other. with his having men fit to interfere on the feelings IV frir ' le eed, how can we better express the A college graduate mightpossibly havenmit- ten the books of Charles Dickens, but it is er whet we luve heron taken for such. eats own limitation% without violating the terrii Being whom he recognizes is in cousiatenti ' e '`i ' freta the throne on n lade great thinker, ai which must more or less touch all If it, le berne in veinal," said Sir Joseph occasiou in question." hearts toolay, than in that exquisite "In- rather well that the world was not com. lam liseirop Butler hail iaeatel her, hystheo- Hooker, ia thet ti e 1.,ws et mina are not TDDLIFE ZUVONDLIFIt. vocal 10 Christi," in which the poet, who pelted to run such a risk. The law of aver - me ea iiihe Rem 'meet at the root of name , yet relegated ti the d amain of the teachers g , noes makes a collegeoue of the most reason. `or can the hu en heart he content wtth best interprete the spirit of this yearning Pats iitia iii: i"'llitl."-t• 11 " caniluet "he, as "as of physical aLieraaN. and that the laws of that 1 k a 1111"viewf f ' sumsu his hopes,and faith, and leave;i l''''.'n''liat "' thvrt4=11's(lf lift's" alltaltillaY matter are not within the religious teacher's il a•F au it reary o the future age, P able institetions that can be founded,. but pretence, these maty then work together , e meld. 11, e feel that, they aro meestble m harmony and with good nil' things beyond the visible, We have Anal he emotes 'Mr. Herbert Spencer's bop that, stretch beyond the grave. dictum's*" "'Ithit"tt "1"1 siifett°° °re. We are Dot content with the assumea Me- te lie esetimileal, one basis of the mortality of the race, nor with the told reeoneiliation must be this deepest, yid- comfort of the posthumous immortality of est. anal most certain of fads, that the the famous and renowned. It does not P"wer wilbil the 17iltyer8e iliatiffes,t° 1° tie° satesty inc. who run neither renoweed nor ese thinks bewae not with pot a y and. abuse a lt; SC. - "Plies° he mewl' famous, to say with the old heathen, "My And Time leastmade Mut; Thou artjust. out of college and left to the made to die. enselves for Y the hearth, more frmt upon, the (Amanita le utter)). inserutable." / aite's work done, let darkness ince more Thou seemest human and Divine. amusemmt extract more from mimicry, fun, air. tree, and more music of love in the wiutry Davio Sweet. that it lila* depths which evince, with its lir instrument% ram notpenetrate. "There islet cover me." The hope of irnmortality cannot realite," said Sir .Tames Paget, in an adinite , be extingueslical in the human breast. eon - able address on the relations of eolgy and , , science and feeliug alike require, alemend it. science, " There is in reality , . . 210 artii° Ana the revelation of Jesus Christ alone has wine is alt t eat some ean pretend to iitrong San of God, immortal love, whoever well read thohlographies of eminent net he prejeaie d or very ignorant if beWhom eve that have not 250131 Thy face, mon will be glad thee tome hooks have been litioelaly " but eaut these things be By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Belleving, weere we cannot prove. written lay what is called "native talent"- proveas talent in its own native air. les take rem ealicut instance, Thine ere tbeee orbs of tient and shade, As painters spring ttp outside of school Titv t'4 it,svIstAn Thou modest life in man and brute Thou modest death: and lo Thy foot singers away from Paris or Berlin, 8i great sanest, itn acute reasoner, a powerful I de not nice& eve that aeoliing.is to be Is on the skull which Thou bast, mulles stateemen come from cornfielas thus came 521(' writer, all combinea in one Olemeehas fought, epie-eitte Is a reasonable faith the Thou wilt not leave us In the dust; M. Dickens up to a wonderful' authorship af gelled figlr for loll theoltildreaoped hence - :rase es-semi/en I do not even linew Thou mutest man, be knows not wile, ort for t t lent will be a hotter fire on thet theiwy of spentammus generation, waieis sa.s tieveSary to give com- pleteness to the other. would rweessitate tia abandonment of faith in Goa ; it woula hut throw the rfW,!.4 ievoriale one step fate Mae laaiit. It mite. " a true inferenee from allaiO.4V that probelay all the ergauie thni4e whieli have ever on thie earth have &mewled fn011 SOW OHO primordial feria into wbieli life was first breathed." TI4V 0:14,?stion Prout may he true that im.leheen must be the primertliai snit. TiOTO may have mien n " aeried, laginuine yeam, ago, when the temitrieity of the cattle's 11ibit, whiefx for the la.st ite4,0uo years has been '016, varied from `21; All these things may be true, aud if they are, I do not see that they will runil affeet ray religion,/ belief. In. lived, Sir James Paget seem that "the unity of mature becnines only more and more sig- nificant aif the Unity of God." lint are they nnt stated a little too posi- tively? " It usea to he supposed,"not so very long ap, "that them] was a dark body enveloped m a luminous atmosphere. The reverse now appears to be the truth." And. yet, the theory of evolution, which was as- sumed as proved by Professor Tyndall is ranked by Sir John Lubbock among the conclusions of science as surely proved "58 the discoveries of the spectroscope and the development of peometry." I have already said that it wouldnot disturb my faith, if it were ; but when I am asked to accept as a proof, that" without community of descent, how can we explain the fact that the frame- work of bones is so similar in the arm of a man, the wing of a bat, the fore -leg of a horse, and. the fin of a porpoise," or am told that if I refuse this I am bound to furnish another theory of the existence of rudimen- tary organs, I feel a want of logical force in these challenges, and I claim as a right, to - distinguish between what Sir James Paget calls the distant inferences" of science and its palpable and clearly ascertained facts. I am aware that Professor Huxley thinks he had found a "demonstration of the kind that I require, in three successive stages in the genealogy of the horse ;but besides the precariousness of the adduced facts as evi- dence of a developmental sequence, few in- ductive generalisations which have taken rank among the principles of science have ever rested upon so namely a basis of ob- aervation as this. And thinkers of much eminence have thrown grave doubts on this theory, which at least bids us pause before we accept it as the undoubted account of the present condition of things. "The specula- tions of Lamarck," which were in the same direction, says Professor Phillips," have met with a full and fair examination in Lyell s "Principles of Geology," leading to a clelib- trate rmection of the hypothesis, and a deoi- eive affirmation ot the reality of species in nature." "Professor Sedgewick,' says the same eminent writer, " has communicated to the Cambridge Philosophical Society an the examination of the evidence bearing on Darwinian hypothesis not less searching than that formerly directed by the same hand into the doctrine contain ed in the work, entitled Vestiges o . Creation,' and with the same result -ea a-. cided rejection of the hypothesis." And if these opinions be thought antiquated in the face of more recent research, Virchow, who surely is in the first rank of the professors, and abreast of the latest discoveries of mod- ern miencet preclaime with no faltering tongue, that, with regard to the 'alleged con- nection between man and the mat of the animal kin adom-sO far from " this desider- atum in science" being proved, on the con - ho lest num , Thou, and ridicule than from all other sources. Our wills are outs,we know not how. Our wins aro ours, to make them Thine, The mind of young Diekens.was thus train- ed by. the joking crowd. He became won- derfully capable of seeing such youth sat Sam Weller. The Pickwick Papers came of ane t le nes wets. eatisflea conscience and feeling. Just as Starving into Submission, can be the subject of direct sewneific mousy. the Franc= an said, if there were not a . The disputes begin in questions It is well known Mutt the present policy Goa "11 would be necessary to invent in whieliknowledge is neither clearly reveal- of stopping trade and all food supplies m- illet as Professor Huxley says: that " the ea, nor clearly within the present reach of barwenian theory of descent !mallet heenpre- tended for the Arab population of the science -in such questions as•the method et Eastern Soudan is causing great misery creation, the relation of en= to the lower ° I'm among the natives in that region. A .cori Bente(' to the palaeontologist haa th invent, it, to aesount for the plan animals, the natureand relation of mend and respoutlent writes, from Saukim that serums nominal. before him," so John Stuart ammosity matter, on tree will end law, on am against Eugland is developum held that, oven if the hope of immortality among the people. This is a HOW feature, possible nature and eondetions of states . of were illueion, it were well matinee:teed; conscious existence other than those in which for hitherto the evils provoked by the nus - we live now. No one can snstly maintain that either revelation or science can supply nearly exact knowledge on these matters, or can make us sure of what may be inferred from what 'WO think of them." And. he adds," In these discussions it is generally believed that one side must be in the wrong. Yet, in many of them, both may be right, comfort and stay. !further that sometimes mothers are driven and their opposition may be due to their TILE Hammes MINISTER - both being ignorant of some internmor THE TWO GREAT aiate /NG SERVANTS. ; from One gate and the children from another, to the south or north to die, and are thus Pe was the hope of Francis Bacon, expres- never enabled to meet again on earth. A tied in the preface twills great philosophical.large number of thesepoor exiles are report - work, the " Instauratio Magna," that by . ed to be wandering about the shores and his new method of scientific inquiry he had reefs, dragging out a miserable existence established a true and legitimate union be- upon shellefish, waiting for the better days tsveen the twat faculties, the empirical and that never seem as if they would dawn. the rational, wbose morose and illomened . ferenee from facts in science, that miracles divorces and reeudiations had thrown every - are impossible, or a. resurrectionor that thing into confusion in the human family. Extraordinary Confession of Grime. , ' God became man, so let it be; from the It is on the same ground that I humbly but A singular confession of crime has just purely seientific point of view, such things earnestly deprecate even the appearance of been made in one of the Paris hospitals. seem impossible.; but from the religious a,conflicebetween science and Cluistianfaith. The 'ease should act as a powerful stimulant point. of view we may hold them to bo not We are each of us -teachers of soience and to persons who have secrets they do not only.hossible but sure; and the religious teachers of religion -being wounded in the wish to be known to actively combat any house of those Nebo oa ht to be our friends. tendencythey may have to hysteria. A conviction has a right to be no less strong that the scientific. Science cannot infer or define all possibilities." Surely, the great statement of St. Pad, which I have prefixed to this discourse, and which contains the idea that I meant to run through the whole of it, and th redeem it from the charge of irrelevancy, is not in; con- flict witle any greet principle of science. Man may net be able by scientific processes to find out God: his microscope and tele- scope and chemical experiments stop on the verge of the "inscrutable," and ca,nnot pene- trate its, abysmal darkness; but if another faculty can discern through the darkness "the hands that reach through nature, moulding men," there is nothing that com- pels us to reject these inferences of faith, which are not irrational, which rest 'upon their proper evidences, which in one form or other may be 'found universal, and which have commended themselves to minds which find no natural repugnance between science and piety. • , Dirt the Christian mysteries give him no trouble?.was a questiofa asked 'of Sir David Brewster ° upon • hie death -bed.' • "None. Why should they? We are surrounded by mysteries. His own being was a mystery -he could riot explain the relation of his soul eo his body. Eteryborly believe& things they could not understand.' ' The Trinity.or the 'Atonement was a great deep ; so was Eternity, BO' Was Providence. it caused him no uneasiness that he could not account forthem. There were secret things Omit belonged to God. He made no attempt to reconcile the sovereignty of grace with the responsibility of mac; they. ware both true. He manta wait to see their harmony deared they .were not cantrary to reason however Incomprehensible. . . . thanked God the 'way of salvation was simple; no laboured argument, • no hard at- tainment was revived. To belie/eh in tbe, so belpful Wal it alld. comforting. Memo, government of affairs have been laid against certainly, has neither the right nor the Egyptian rule rather than the English eon. power to rob us of it. Humanity -at boast trol. Once more starvation is decimating the mass of it -is not so rich .thati It scan 'the people, and even the Sheikhs and Thlema afford to part with whet, to it, isno illusion, I are en want of bread as well as the poorer butts revealed truth, whichhas provedto it dunes. By official order numbers of natives actual experience, in hours of darkness, are turned out of Sauldm only to die of temptation, sorrow, trial, an unspeakable actual want in the desert. It is alleged truth which, when gamed by increasing knowledge, will combine the truths they now hold apart. Both sides are right, in tnat which may be claimed as well aecer- taineil knowledge, and distant inferences on one side should not be allowed to weigh against knowledge or meat probability on the other. If it be maintained, as an in. trary, 1' every positive advance which we have made in the province an pre -Materiel Lord esne Christ wasi to riVe. either elearness or sohnety to their 3udg- sida" • • is a. conflict in whic , if fought out to the young . woman on the occasion refereed to bitter end, some of the highest interests of was seized with such an acute hysterical at - society would be imperilled. It is an un- I tack that it was found necessary to place necessary, and therefore anunrighteous, war. I her under medical treatment. At last she It would seem that no single resource of the fell asleep. Those who watched by her bed - human mind is adequate to bear the pres- side were destined to hear a shocking tale. sure, or satisfy the demands of man's During her uneasy slumber thematient re - nature, taken at its best or at its worst; coueted with the most painstaking exactness and the knowledge which feeds the soul, all the details of an assassination which she and supplies motives to moral conduct, is stated. had recently takee place, and to at least as helpful and as necessary for the ' which she averred she herself had been a mass of mankind as that which teaches them 'party.. After she had awakened and was their place in the universe of matter, oh ex- sufficiently strong to be interrogated, the plains the framework and mechanism of self -accused criminal was informed of what that physical body, so fearfully and wonder- had transpired. At first she seemed to be fully made. greatly shocked and frightened, hut finally There is another side to this subject which affirmed that what she said was the truth. ought not to be passed over. There are ser- This was uttered in such a convincing and vices which the spirit of scientific inquiry has circumstantial ' manner that those around rendered to the cause of true religion which I her, though disposed to make every allow - it wouldbe uneandid and ungenerous not to ance for the condition in which she was recognize. And upon this point I prefer re- ! when the astounding declaration was made, peating what I said in a sermon preached felt no other course was open to them but Just thirteen years ago. The repetition will, to inform the authorities of the extraordin- at least, show that on this subject I have not ary affair. This was done, with the result changed my mind. I had chosen for any that the woman was taken insto custody. text a passage (Acts xxviii. 8-6) containing Great interest is manifested as to how the anincident in the story of the shipwreck, stra.ngs occurrence will terminate. which had been read in the lesson for the e. • day, and I remarked :- " It is the prevalence of the scientific tem- A Great Financial Disaster. per, more, perhaps, than anything else, "Ah, my beautiful Edith, I 'am over. which has redeemed religion from supersti- come with anguish." Mous corruptions, affecting both faith and "Why Reginald I" practice. Observe the crude and utterly ri I have come to tell you that our marri- unwarranted, hypothesis by which these age cannot take place. A great financial 'barbarous' Maltese, who received St. Paul disaster has overtaken me." =dials shipwreeked companions, attempted "Alas, my poor Reginald, but we still to account for any extraordhuary phenome- love each other; and you forget MIMI have non. They had kindly instincts; they be- alittbs money." lieved in God and in the accouptability "Yes, that's just it ; it is so little. I man -the two fomidations of the principle lways thought that it was at least a huia- of religion; but, reasoning as they reasoned, dred thousand, but I've just found out that this mere belief waseinsufficient to give it can't excessi forty thousand at the out - Zags and reuttry lit England. Mr. John Sanders of Hemptsille, Ont., who was sent by the Dominion government very naturally teem one whose college had to England. to make inqutries rbartling the been found in his own oyes and ears. egg and poultry business there7has return - The "Christmas Carols " were a direo et. In his report to the Finance Minister aid to an enlarged. and eejuvenated holiday, he says that the market Is practiaally un - but all of Mr. Dieliens' 'smiting, in Um limited for All manner of farm produce, Tula memory end. commiseration of the neglected particularly of the prodtte° at the barnyard. boys, were powerful blows dealt the stony,He states that fowls should be prepared heart of the world. He made vere visible for the Englieh market as follows: Both the huinbler classes. He diselOsed the soul turkeys anal geese must, before being killed, that lay under the ragg.ed clothes, and he'. be starved 24 hours, or at least until the made more noble all the men and women , crop is entirely empty. Turkeys should be who would become the friends of the poor. i bled in the neck and the head and feathers Hail net Mr. Dickens laughed even while left on anl entrails drawn. Geeseshould be he lampooned abuses, his books would have bled in the same manner, but the feathers had less influence because they would have should be Ricked off, except those on the been less read. The world iuns after fun wings, leaving the down on the body and as flies seek sugar. It is fortunate for the ' the entrails in. Geese must not be boys of the world that the "Pickwick scalded, but simply . rough plucked. Al] Papers" and "Nicholas Nickleby " were not petal y should be killed the day before serious volumes. The lessons against abuse' deliverY to the Canadian purchaser, so that ter, the lesson being often only a kind of and cruelty are taught amid roars of laugh. the animal heat mom be completely gone. Fowls should be packed. in eases, each, of side -play is soen found to be an important which shonld contein not more than -00 part of the drama. After the laughter had Pounds weielbt, say 18 or 20 fowls. Each ceased the lesson of love reznains. package should be marked with the number ' Mr. Dickens was not 5 believer in the of birds, the weight of the package and "unities" of plot and person. He began whether it contains cocks or hens. Regard. books without looking ten pages ahead, but ing the important question of prices, Mr, about the • unities " if only it has lots ex e 12 cents a pound, turkeys at 16 cents and Sanders says that geese sell wholesale for the reading world does not Care anythine should, in the main, point toward some fowls at • anywhere from 80 to 60 cents a pair. Eggs were always in demand and the. Inc. The writer saw • to it that the fun prisons, the courts, the private schools, the . price laid down invariably higher than betterment of the humbler millions. The ezr-cum-locution offices, the self-righteous, could be got in the States. He says: "I. observed that nearly all the eggs placed on the argument, even if the love affair of the the British market from European countiies were packed in long straw, usually bright the icy -hearted, were all well cared for in novel at times grew thin. and clean, but in a few instances not so. 111y That Christmas carol, in which old Scrooge own opinion is in favor of packing in clean undergoes such a conversion from being an cut straw, and from the experience I had old sniveling growler about the " Christmas some years ago I intend using it . in future humbug," is an essay frofn reading which cases shipments. largeenough eggs should be packed in nearly any human being living would rise a oh to contain 12 long hun- better man. Scrooge is so set in amid fun, dreds ; that is, 120 dozen. This size of puns, jokes, tears, and ghosts that the pieco packages necessitates their being handled by acts upon the reader like a stage covere two men, and the experience ot European, with great actors. Humor is never absent. • h shippers shows that there s a muck pathos is never absent, wisdom is always on sffmaller percentage of breakage three hand, and in the end one iof the meanest packed in ' cases that can be! misers becomes a great heart that would of handled by one man. These. cases have a ?mean be love to have Christmas come many times central divisional board, so that carol, Mr. Dickens leads out his star actor, The usual commission for 'selling • is 5 per il trade. ' each winter. . When in the opening . of this sawn into when required for there he holds the audience to the play.thereafters. cent. although I found some hops willing! "Hard and sharp as a. flint from whieh 'no I to sell f ir 8 per cent. Ae. the sale and prices steel had ever struck out generous fire, . of all f nel products in the English market oyster, Lite cold . within him froze his old are largely infleenced by ' the reputation She products of the . country from secret, self-contained, and solitary as an bf Scrooge, but when the carol is done this which the article cameo, anclias Canadian poultry and eggs are comparatively new ta features." Such lines give us the face of to all people, high and lore, and saving that market, it is of the Sitmost importance that no inferior article ra should be sent, but old, mean niiser is seen scattering his smiles group of families from ruin. a, !that they 'should be packed and shipped in _ 1 such a manner as to be most acceptable to . In the" Chimes " and the " Christmas the market and invith g to the consumer. . Tree" the ' December feast receives more • , - real help than literature had ever before ex- • The last lineal descendant of Christopher tended, it. This author has now become eo Columbus, the discoverer of America, is re- fer removed from the day . of his tretimplf, potted to be d.ying. 'That be has ever done :that few realize how great' was • his fame. 'anything 'to peepetuatethegloryof his house The zeal over recent writers, has ben quiet: does not empear. , The inose noticeable thing in comparison with the entliiipiasm whichlholicernieg, him seeihs to he • that "he is a. once buret forth,oVer the . name. of Charles breeder of thebest fighting hulls." ' What a 1 'Dickens. Filty thouiand copies of some of degradation is this 1 The discoverer of a, his publications were sold within a fear days New world have his line go out in a breeder He waster some years the autocrat of the of fighting bulls. It teaches, however, that. book trade. ' ' I noble aspirations . are not hereditary 31 that wonderful blare of fame has burntf and that no= can tell ieto what unwors .down not a little, the impulse given to phl- , thy aesocietidns his u,qrne may be brought bee anthropy by that fame remains eating still. 1 those who.conte after him,' . •, . . . . . . .. „ • • . . „..,- •••i „ riVOlialletaiessegithe eisiaiereammeeisseersiee 4:ewer,.