The Presbyterian of the South : [combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1909-1931, July 14, 1909, Page 6, Image 6

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

6 * MODERN SCIENCE / TIAN W e are well aware of minds of certain thinkers evangelical religion are i ities, however, are stea I l_ rt van ue no sucn conmct s scientist there is not ev affirm that on the contra ment of natural law adv; science and revealed reli mony and mutual confir . Beyond this, it may be effect of more recent ad scientific discovery, or th to practical uses, is to he dignity and intense reali which the gospel reveal; exalt our reverence for tl ence of him who is its a We do not refer now < of investigation, so fruitl verifications of inspired fresh historic treasures buried civilizations of 1 amidst the wrecks of an> may be called a departm ment which exhibits th< fillment of which, God hs ceeding ages, confirmatio of the truth of his irfspirt years ago and commend of our life. Discoveries i so numerous ana so impc ? a demonstration of the as being a vindication o But the study of pur their laws, as these have cent years, is suited to faith and intensify hope; realities in nature little and are of a character t< the wisdom and power c telegraph and telephone etherial substance of whi of whose nature they hac ether is the substantial from city to city and f They tell us that it fills ; to us the possibly bour communication for the r Again we are told that house of electricity and 1 the earth are nrodnred < true what a suggestion o may perchance be utilize kind, either in the future yond. Rapid transit by 1 navigation all display th God has made in his pre ing the sphere of huma sphere of human happin ceived and utilized in re< love with which they are through the microscope 0 THE PRESBYTERI> y \ STIMULUS TO CHRIS[ FAITH. the notion prevailing in the and writers that science and n conflict. The best authordfastly declaring that there ictually, and that to the true en apparent discord. They ry as discovery and arrange ances, the relation of natural gion is that of uniform harmation. observed, that the legitimate vances in the department of ie application of known laws lighten our conception of the ity of the spiritual kingdom 3 to us, and to enlarge and ie majesty and the ever-presugust author and revealer. ;specially to that department :ul ih its silent, but eloquent nistory, in which every year are being rescued from the .he past. If explorations cient cities in Oriental lands ent of science, it is a depart; laws and purposes in fulis preserved for this and sucn, which can not be doubted, :d word written thousands of ed to our faith as the guide in this department have been irtant as to be little less than Divine government as well f Divine Truth, ely natural phenomena and been brought to light in redeepen conviction, confirm for these phenomena reveal dreamed of by our fathers, 3 magnify our conception of >f the Creator. The wireless make very real the refined ich scientist had told us, but 1 but vague ideas. Now this medium of communication rom continent to continent, all space, which may suggest idless realm of activity and edeemed in a future life, the sun is a mighty power that electrical phenomena on ;rom this source. If this be f f: ?i*- -f t i mv. iiiiiuciisiiv ui iurcc inai d for the advantage of manof this life or of the life beland, aerial transit and ocean rpnarvelous provisions that >Vldential designs for enlargn activity and therefore the ess if only his gifts are recognition of the wisdom and bestowed. Discoveries made and telescope alike, are im OF THE SOUTH. pressing the minds of wise sf the wonders of design in ci provision that has been mad only for ministering to hum; ing the receptive mind witl toward him who ordained it Upon subjects of vital go assume opposing attitudes, tures are but the records ol religionists in different age these scriptures on every j their Divine author, are the and will. To sopie Christ ground; to others he is alt the natural world is the pro* ing through uncounted ages work of the only living and s of these groups will we iden our immortal souls? IT MAKES A E It is one thing to urge q preme Court's decrees whe favor, but quite another whe The Illinois, Kentucky, Geo as to Cumberland Presbytei able, and those who were 01 riously and fraternally urgee But not so when the Tenn< was a gray horse of anoth< bers living in other states to attempt to bring suit in 1 not yet gone quite as far a? Watson, or Walnut Street ( bers were actually colonized ly supported there, in ordex federal courts. There has seems. Members of a Nasi Mississippi, repudiated the Kentucky people interested nah Churches in Tennessee court to have the state cour LOUISIANA'S ONE INSTITU Silliman Collegiate Institi presided over by Rev. H. institution of our Church Louisiana. For fifty-eight cessful operation, doing a r denced by the cultured and come from it to adorn our people better. We say j educated womanhood make The Institute is under th Christian and Presbyterian i it call for all that is pure an< an institution where all of instilled into the hearts and under .its influence. Its ? nfPcirlonf ^Aiirn A.V. ? f vuiuvni, uuyv ii, I!d3 IIK15 V noble buildings of the Ir dignity and adaptation, and people around affords a com type: HHBHbHHHHHHHHHI July 14, 1909. >ecialists increasingly with reation and the boundless e in the natural world, not an comfort, but for inspir \ reverence apd gratitude all. dliness the minds of irten To some the Holy Script well-meaning but erring :s of the past; to others >age bear the impress of revelation of his thought is as a root out of a dry Dgether lovely. To some duct of blind forces work; to others it is the handiovereign God. With which tify the sacred interests of HFFERENCE. |uiet submission to a Sun the latter are in one's :n they are the other way. rgia, and Texas decisions ian property were admirn the losing side were se1 to yield quietly to them. :ssee decision came. That :r color. Absentee memmust needs be picked up .he federal courts. It has > it went in the Jones vs. Zhurch. case wher*? mfm in another state and part to get the case into the been some difficulty, it tiville Church, living in use of their names. And in Greenfield and Savan- * are not able in a federal t's decree set aside. *1 PRESBYTERIAN * fTION. Lite, at Clinton, La., ably H. Brownlee, is the one in the great State of years it has been in sucloble work, which is evirefined women who have homes and to make our people advisedly, for an s an educated manhood, e directorate of men of faith. Those in charge of d good and refining. It is the Christian virtues are minds of those who come . entire faculty, from the onstantly in mind. The V istitute attract by their a delightful and cultured munity life of. the highest i y~' .