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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER <5, 1300.
|[ “PUTTING AWAY ■
CHILDISH THINGS '
1
By REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD,
PASTOR UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
0
arrival of the mind and con
science at manhood’s estate
.....Id ho the escape from the domina
te of impulses and motives reudlly
{JJojnljed as characteristically chlld-
lsl j; |. a proud day for the school boy
lie dons his first pair of long
ImfiJns. The Ions coveted goal of
”!-hand seems almost attained. Ho
S up his head and steps ppoudly
- conscious assumption of those
.vhlch proclaim the citizen. And
JR, voting s |rl wh0 has been allowed
5a. tile first llhte to lengthen her (towns
It out UP her hair, already feels hcr-
fiw, nt | stress of a model home, and
fvicegnised social leader.
Hill unfortunately, years In tltelr
„?,|a nisht do not always bring a
.Mulne maturity, nnd the hoary crown
1:L n et always cover a head filled
with seasoned wisdom. With far too
n ,en and women It Is only tho
merely pbvsfcal part of them that ac-
tucliy "grows up.” Experience has
brought them certain things, it Is true,
but these have only served to deepen
•nd intensify In them tho normal char,
icterlstlcs of childhood. They suffer.
In fact from the most lamentable sort
of arrested development. They can
not unite with St. Paul In his trlum-
otiant declaration that having rejoiced.
In the proper time, in the motives, 1m-
pulsea and experiences of childhood,
and, having reached manhood's proud
estate they have willingly und per
sistently 'put away childish things."
They are physical adults, but moral
and spiritual Infants.
. Tho normal child Is your natural and
unconscious egoist. The universe ex.
lsts for him. Altruism has, yet no
p . , ln . hls "PlrltuBl vocabulary. The
Primal Instinct of self-preservation Is
predominant. Tho beloved Quaker
poet recognizes this natural character-
l* 1 "..°f childhood when hls “Barefoot
Boy unhesitatingly appropriates as
personal property the universal bounJ
ties of ungrudging nature:
”Mtnej4he sand rimmed pickerel pond.
Mine, tire walnut slopes, beyond;
Mine, on bending orchard trees,
Apples of Hesperldes:
For my use the blackberry cone
Purpled over hedge and stone.”
Now, there la nothing dangerous or
deplorable In all of this. It is a part of
the natural development ot the child,
and authorities agree that the parent
of the truly precious child Is to bo
commiserated rather than congratulat
ed. But we have a. right to protest
against the extension of the .period of
the domination of childish motives be
yond the time limit set by nature and
by nature's God. We have a right to
protest, most vigorously, against the
life-policy of far too many men and
women who, having like Whittier’s
"Barefoot Boy.” reached that time
when “these feet must hide In tho
prison cells of pride,” and be “made to
tread the. mills of toll, up nnd down
In ceaseless moll." yet refuse to sur
render their childish prerogative ond
apparently conduct their entire com
mercial and social campaign on the
can reach out and grab
We make much boast of our mar
velous enlightenment, ouV splendid civ
ilization; and, as a nation, we would
pose as the ethical leaders of our race,
when in reality we have not attained
an adult conception of civilized ethics
until We have taken hold of tho fact
that we are not animals, hustling each
other for, the best places at the trough.
But that w* are sons and daughters of
the most high God, endowed with di
vine capabilities and designed for per
fection.
As we acquire that adult mind and
conscience which enables us to put
away the Ideals and concepts of the
childish years, we become more and
more filled with the knowledge that
the things of which wo boast ourselves,
the things we gather unto oursefYes
and put our. brand upon and fondly
call ours, do not really belong to us
after all, but that they are only the
text books of life's great school, the
REV. E. D. ELLENWOOD.
alda by which we are able to learn
tho priceless lessons of human expe
rience. Wo may use the books for
awhile but they may not be taken out
of tho library.
But, I think I can hear some one
say, "that philosophy may he all right
for the pulpit, but it won't pans mus
ter, on Whitehall street or In the count
ing house or in the real estate market.
Man was put here upon the earth to
subdue It and to developed Its natural
resources, and, In order that he might
be faithful to this mighty task, he w
endowed with the faculty of acquisi
tiveness. The physical Items of prop
erty which, by energy, Industry and
frugality I am able to possess myBelf
of, are mine, and no amount of pulpit
sophistry can make it otherwise. Their
acquisition lias not taken me outside
the pale of the law. I have not know
ingly defrauded any one. These lands
and houses and goods which stand In
my name represent the tireless effort
of the best years ot my life. I have
spared myself, in their gathering,
neither In brain nor brawn. They be
long to me.”
Certainly they belong to you. No
one contests your right to them. We
rejoice In the enterprise and energy
which has bent Itself to their gather
ing. But—you are going upon a long
journey, before long, I am told. I sup
pose you will take these things with
you, these things whom possession
S ves you so piuch pride and satls-
ctlon, these things whose acquisi
tion has demanded the greater part of
>"Ur I'oiisrlMjs year.*;, those tilings,
which by long nnd close association
have come to seem indeed a part of
you—of .course you will take these
things with you, on your Journey? No
Well, I am surprised! Shall you not
need them, In the place to which you
are going? They are yours. They
have coat you so much of time and ef
fort and love and life. * They belong to
you and to you alone, you say. Surely
you are not going to abandon them
when you Journey?
* * Well, then, lam sorry for you, truly
I am. Your friends know perhaps even
better than you are able to realize
yourself, just how much these things
have coat you, and now you are going
away pretty soon and are not going
to take these thlpgs which, of course,
are yours, along with you. I don't
wonder that you are grieving about
it, and that you are delaying your
journey .just as long oa you poaslbly
:an N
But, friend, the Journey must be ta
ken, sooner perhaps than you have
any Idea about, nnd it seems to me
that I can hear again the voice of one
who long ago gave forth priceless
words of wisdom and of counsel, re
peating for the childish minds of this
present age, hls olden story of the man
who, perplexed to know where he
should bestow all hls rapidly increas
ing goods decided that he would tear
[down hls barns and bulkl them again
with greater capacity, anti then, se
cure and happy In hls affluence, would
say unto hls soul, “Soul, thou hast
much goods laid up for many years;
take thine ease; eat, drink and he mer
ry." But God said: “Thou fool! This
night shall thy soul be required of
thee, then whose shall these things he
which thou hast laid up?" And so,
friend, ns you are soon starting upon
your Journey, and shall not take with
you any of tin* things for which you
have spent so prodigally your life, let
us hope that in their acquisition there
has also mm*' to you something which
will be available on your Journey and
In your new residence, something
which .does not figure In your bal
ance at the bank nor upon the rolls of
the tax collector. And, If this Is so,
If the westering sun In a farewell Illu
mination of the old, familiar school
room, finds you without greedy re
luctance. hut rather with Joy, putting
back upon the library shelves the books
you have used so long, and with a
heart filled with gratitude for the profit
of their long association, facing tor-
ward with calm confidence toward the
untried Journey, secure in the posses
sion of that of which neither time nor
change may deprive you, then Indeed
shall you know that your years in life’s
school have been profitable to you and
that through them you have been able
ta “put away childish things.”
HONEY FROM A FOUL HIVE
“And he turned aside to see tho car-
ca„ of tho lion; and behold there woo
a swarm of bee, and honey in the car-'
case of tho lion.—Judge, xlv: 8.
By REV. JOHN E. WHITE,
PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
A T first an unsavory' text, but a
closer view yield, relief. There
was honey in the carcass. It
b a chanter of Strang things. A fast
ind furious love affair, a desperate
fight between a man and a beast, a
lion's carcass full of honey, a riddle and
, woman's treachery, and moving In
Herculean fashion In the center of It
,11 the strange strong man, Samson’s
character la much more, of a problem
than hls riddle. The arresting thought
for us Is the fact Illustrative of a
principle that n foul carcass yielded
sweetness and strength to Samson and
Ms company. I doubt not on I have
rend the story many of you have run
ahead of the sermon to Its widest up-
S llcallon to our situation here In At
into.
The Qiant and the Lion.
In the first place to apeak of At
tests under such figure as Samson'a Is
no new or original conception of mine.
In the winter of 181V, just seventeen
years n*o, when the people of this city
were standing by the open grave of
Henry W. Grady, one of the spokesmen
of Atlanta's grief declared: "Wo itro
dteheartened, almost discouraged. At
lanta Is so young and fiery, almost
fierce In her civic energy, nnd pulls
eo hard at the reins. Who will drive
ferns now?" That expression In the
newspaper of the time gave to a col-
l»ge student In another state hls flrst
Impression of Atlanta, (Jo. It became
memorable to him of a city some
where to the south, possessed of young
. but giant energies which, Samsonllke,
was tugging Impatiently at the leaah
of progress. The figure has held good
through a closer touch nnd a nearer
elew. This city Is a young giant, un
formed, undisciplined nnd far from
having formed Its final civic charac
ter. Like Samson, It Is itself n greater
problem than nny of Its problems.
So also has Atlanta her tragic hor
ror. 8e has met the lion In the path.
Uit Tuesday she put forth strength
and strangled the beast. We are now
standing by the carcass, the foul carcass
of a murderous riot. "And behold
[here Is a swarm of bees and honey
In the lion's carcass.” He that hath
eyes to see let him see. It Is « car
cass, a carcass so foul nnd loathsome
that we would If we could put It from
memory forever. "If the work of that
Saturday night could be blotted out
from the history of this city," declar
ed one of. the foremost and oldest
-builders of Atlanta, "I Would give my
right hand off this right arm.”- But
let us lift up our eyes. Behold- the
bees are at work bringing honey from
the garden of God's providence. We
will yet bear witness that good comes
out of evil, and that for this com
munity In the noblest moral and civic
sense God has made the wrath ot men
to praise Him." A great power has
moved upon the streets of this city. A
great principle Is being demonstrated.
8weat Out of Bittar.
No great tragic experience has ever
failed to leave behind its permanent
mark. It Is In the records of men that
when Dante came out of hls appalling
visions of "The Inferno” he was never
the same man after. Joy had departed
from hls life forever and all smiles
from hls face. He bore about him
darkness nnd shadow. As hls sombre'
form moved through tho streets of
Florence, the owed Florentines whis
pered to. each other, "There Is the man
who hoa been to hell." Sometimes
agtc experience leaves only blight
id wreck In Its wake. *
But I have read also In the records
of men that tragedy Is oftener tlje
birth throe of progress. When Wen
dell Phillips, the ease loving, cultured
and wealthy young patrician of Bos
ton, stood In the door of hls office and
saw tho work of a mob In the streets
of Boston, the vision disturbed Ul"
contentment. That hour transformed
him. From a mere worldling ho be
came at once a messenger of human
ity. He became the conscience and
the voice, of hls city nnd hls section.
He Incarnated an era of American his
tory.
There a^e hours of life when human
nature, heated hot In burning fean,
becomes fluid and runs quickly Into
new moulds. There are minutes when
elemental forces get at the heart of
humanity and shapes it nnew. See It
at you will, there are moments of life
which mean more than many years.
Centuries- have been crowded Into
hours.
There nre moments In man's mortal
years when for an Instant that which
has long lain beyond jour reach Is of
a sudden found In thfngs of smallest
compass. We hold the unbounded shut
In one small minute’s space. We hold
worlds within the hollow of our hand.
We hold anvorld of music In one word
of love, a world of love In one word
less look, a world of thought In one
translucent phrase, a world of mem
ory In one mournful chord, a world of
sorrow In one little song, a world ot
power Iq the experience of an hour.
Thera are the great moments when a
man, a city or a nation flings oft Im
pediment and leaps forward; when a
human being has realized a tragedy
that shake*-Its soul to Its center, It Is
never the same life after. A man who
has paled and shivered In a blast that
found him to hls depths la not again
what he was. Ha discovers that old
points of view have dissolved and that
? ew forces have arrived within him.
hrough the fissures of moral earth
quake light from somewhere has
broken in on hls soul. Through moral
explosion the elements of hls char
acter assume a new combination. He
can do from henceforth that which he
would not have dared before. Thomas
Chalmers, the great Scotch preacher,
passed through an experience of trag-
■ ‘1 ‘' pul
pit It was
pirn. On
turn hr said: "You have a new min
Ister. Not until this day have I ever
known how to preach, but now I be
lieve I do.” Jenny Lind could not con
quer the world with aong till honey
from the carcass of sorrow had sweet
ened her volce.-Charles Spurgeon spoke
ns an archangel only after the terrible
dlaster of Surrey Hall, which cost the
lives of scores and almost hls own.
Dwight L. Moody was an earnest,
R loddlng worker In Chicago, but when
e came out of the flaming horrors of
the great Are of 1871 he found a new
power, a power which, gave hls zeal a
resistless earnestness.
Atlanta Finds Hsrsslf.
It Is not over-consciousnsss of the
terrible character of recent events that
causes me to say that Atlanta will
never be the same city again, bill a
seen that, a new power sat
tho first Sabbath of hls
DR. JOHN E. WHITE.
nobler, better city, growing out of the
tragedies which have shaken this com
munity. We have turned down the
blood-blotted page and opened up a
new chapter. September 22, 1(08, will
remain a noted dato In (he history of
Atlanta—the date of more than one de-
parture. Prophecy Isgsnld to be half
wish and half environment, and, there
fore, subject to discount: but history
confirms the prophecy. In cases where
there" has been a great and lasting
movement of progress there was some
great moral source of It In a sacrifice
and a sorrow of.some kind. Scotland
dates her ethical and Intellectual glory
from the day when he heathers ran
with the blood of the Covenanters.
France has built her Place de la Re-
pubjlque on the site of the center of
her murderous revolution. Wilming
ton, N. <’., a sleepy old town, was
shocked Into a>new consciousness nnd
a new progress by a terrible riot In
her streets.
Atlanta’s time of lawlessness has
been a time of revelation and dis
covery. A ship, the sailors say, must
have a storm before she -finds herself.
A city Is like a ship. There Is today
In Atlanta what was not here be'fore.
For a while, at leaah the leprous things
ot our life have withered In the public
gaze. For a while, at Ieazt, we have
been ruled by a high conscience. We
may see this city sink back Into Its
wonted submission to the dictates of
commercialism, but Atlanta can never
say that she has not seen the light.
Somewhere In the archives of record
at the city hall some things which
have come to consciousness In a trl
umphant way during the month of
September ought to be chronicled for
future reference.
Flrit. There, haa been an unshack
ling of honest speech. Our old flatter
ers and the habit of sublimating every
thing with soft words has appeared a
mean and unworthy bualnesa.
Second. We have realised the peril to
the safety and honor of the city of
having In seals of authority men with
out moral weight, whose characters
lack moral Imperative men who, neg
lecting to command themselves, have
no power over the lawless elements of
our population. I say we have real
ized the terrlflc peril of that. Tens of
thousands have boldly borne witness
to that.
Third. We have realised the right
and the duty to require In our situa
tion that those who have Influential
access to the public mind through
newspaper power shall not idly and
recklessly sow firebrands In the dry
field of race antagonism;- that the
teachers and the leaders of thought
shall support and strengthen the hands
of the law and not bring It Into con
tempt.
Fourth. We have realised that our
machinery of Justice has lacked both'
power nnd spirit to protect the un
protected and bring criminals against
life and virtue to speedy account.
Fifth. We have new light on tho
liquor traffic. Acknowledged before a
curse without a single redeeming good,
we realize now that the liquor business
Is a menace to our safety In Atlanta,
as It Is probably to no other city In the
world. The saloon breeds lust, lust
commits rape, rape excites beyond nil
prudence the newspapers, nowspapers
inflame riot, the mob slaughters the
Innocent, and the savagery of murder
In the streets brings Atlanta Into the
contempt of the world.
Anarchy came doWn on.us like night
—Atlanta sprang as one man and
shouted, “Close the saloons!"
At the angle of race contact between
the Inflammable elements of both white
and black stands the saloon. Georgia
w(th eleven hundred thousand negroes
and tens of thousands of negro haters
must see the utter folly and madness
of courting conflagration by tolerating
the liquor business, which does Its
work three hundred days of the year
at the very point of peril to everything
that patriotism holds sacred.
Every good man will thank God that
a new light has been ehed on these
things In Atlanta- Every good man
knows hls duty better than he did be
fore. I am assured that a great multi
tude of citizens have sworn to do that
duty more faithfully.
Cut to the Quick.
But the profounder revelation the
mob has uncovered goes deeper than
the ordinary externals of reform. The
veil has been lifted from our civiliza
tion. Our Ideals and the governing
principles of our life are expossd. The
question that disquiets and yet should
Inspire ue, Is whether our city and Its
vigorous captains have been laying the
foundations of progress with emphasis
on some things without which Atlanta
can not be great In- real and noble
sense. The mob- showed us that we
were not wo secure-in our position of
pre-eminence as we thought. The
mob showed us that' the municipal
stomach was full of undigested stuff
—that our process of progress was a
stuffing process, and that we have
'been taking In a mass of material with
out really assimilating It.
Here are reflections which must oc- I
cur to cltlsens who think about Atlan
ta when they so home at night. We
all love our city: we are proud to be
haired Atlantansabroad. But are there
not some qualities of solidity, disci
pline, modesty and real strength ad
mirable ns ue agree In Individual chnr-
.'ii'lrr. Hint tv-mid bo net less desirable
In municipal character? Have we no
ground for misgiving If our coat-of-
arms Is a crowing cock rampant over
ever so many modest angels dormant?
Is a crowing cock civilization the
stablest civilization?
We call Atlanta "The New York of
the South.” Is that the Ideal for this
Southern capital? Mr. Jerome suld
recently at Birmingham. Ala.: "I hear
some of your orators speak of your
city as 'The Pittsburg of the South'
God grant that It Is not so, nnd that It
may never be so." Let us pause and
reflect at this point.
The mob lifted off the lid of another
situation. It Is one that proposes a
problem to the churches and the Chris
tians of Atlanta. Have we received
Christianity halved to suit our nat
ural passions and prejudices or are
tiling to have a religion that con
trols our nnturnl passions and preju
dices? The mob will always despise
mir churches If III*- members of these
churches nre sympathetically support
ers of the mob. If religion does not mean
more titan It has appeared to mean to
men who have put Its authority aside
to exprejB the most Chrlstless senti
ments In the same week they have par--
taken of the communion bread and
wine, the very roots of righteousness
are rotten.
I do not believe In the policy of cov- ,
erlng facts up. We have sinned nnd
wo must suffer. We should be profiled
thereby. Our editors ought not to hush
up the Holy Spirit that Is working In
this riiniimmlty. Few cities are loved
ns our people love Atlanta, but we can
not K" against eternal principles, I
challenge thnt the truest lovers of At
lanta are not those who would he wil
ling to flatter us back Into complacen
cy, but those who would make of our
sorrow a stepping stone to higher
things.
SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT OF RELIGION
lINHtHMHMINUtl
IIIHIIHHHK
By REV. JAMES W. LEE,
PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH
T HE human mind deals with rela
tions of material, human and dl-
vine facta In three dlatlnct ways,
u perceives them, conceives them and
reproduce, them. During the first
*l*fe of mental .activity things are
»Mn singly, during the second they are
•ten In clsstee. during the third they
re re-created. For Instance myriads
repressions ere made upon the eye
* " u * e object that stands before
,' This It perception. The mind uses
* ln,,l 'i<Junl Impressions given In
perception as so much raw material
™ r a single generalization which rep-
«„ W V‘ Thla la conesp-
", r!y the aid of Imagination the
" U8e " ,he d * u furnished by per-'
„ „ n '"<• conception to make a
« °f M* own cither smaller or
prnduc. t ," an * h ? r *»> one.-Thla Is re-
fset. .i! n ; Intuitions of material
Intuition" k ?°. wn O" zense-pereeptlons, 1
„ "f human facta we may call
vine hT l T M on *' and Intuitions of dl-
Tbtts is'* “l*. religious perceptions,
duces t mlni1 conceives and repro-
fsrts r, ' n perceptions of material
V „ P*rc*PHont of human facts
It hat 'S' Perceptions of divine facts,
.nu’ keen said that aclence Is the
*«iii c Classification of the uniform
Shout „» " h,e ‘ h energy acts. This Is
min, correct ns would be the state-
tiu« c ' r, ®ln knowledga of llter-
the u „iV h * syerematlc classification of
E’errv ™ ' v,y * In which letters act.
tnsttc "*“*«» no powdr of atoto-
•cts ,?, uW . ance * Bd control., it never
u * Impelled and directed
never „ . ’ otem wni ’ ‘he alphabet
symbol “ *h® mind usee the
°f H through which to express
d.i'lm’-Melenca Is the systematic
which °f ,‘he uniform ways In
Prestinn •»*"“> mind acts In the ex-
fliroiish °f thought -and volition
spiritual I? a ‘* rtal ' mental, moral and
Veraehi,? eroenta and forces. The unt-
tllna |,u* with all that It coo-
bur |, 'her* by Its own motion,
directive because of the creative,
mightv ' Jmmanent mind of the Al-
•tarts *7 aclentllle experiment
universe i.. .e,assumption that the
’he dbcnvU.? ,a !5 ,bl *' Mclence Is but
thought emK classification of the
human * l " h ?<Hed '*» the coamoa. The
»orldV ’, ln “ couM n »‘ explore the
mind , *re mad and not rational,
fv that Zh "!?■ comprehend and claeel-
B! " 1 "ustatn' V 1 . ***” m ' ni1 to create
tiipulu L •hot a sait* man on earth
, 8 “M thought la everywhere
displayed In the nature and arrange
ment of the facts stored around us.
This thought was either put there by
the mind of the Creator, or else things
themselves are thinkers and have ex
pressed It. It Is Impossible to accept
the proposition that atoms think, feel
and will and are, therefore, little per
sonalities. It Is easltr to believe It
One Personality using things as the
vehicle/ of Hls mind, than to believe
In personality powdered Into billions of
infinitesimal points. It Is easier, to be
lieve that man gets the thought out of
which he makes hls scUncx from One
mind, than It Is to believe that he get!
It from sextllllons of little minds,
crowded together and perpetually
thinking In every tumbler of water, or
In every ball of Iron, The unending
field of facts reaching, out inimitably
from us every whither are crammed
full of Ideas. If this were not so man
could handle no light of science In his
mind, no more than he could tum on
an Incandescent light In hls room, If
either the sun or else the ether-undulq-
tlons were not sending out Are.
I.
The attempt haa been made to limit
science to the material objecta of ore-
. — - nl | n( i
then there can be no science except
such as Is turned into the mind
through the observation and classifi
cation of the thought contained In ma
terial objects. But the elements of hu
man will and emotion and Intelligence
and spirit are expressions of divine
thought noffess then are the elements
nnd forces of matter. If we can read
God's thoughts as penned In the rocks
and out of It get science, why should
we not be able to read Hls thought ns
expressed through the, facts of relig
ion and get science?
Believers In other things then such
ns may be tasted or touched have per-
mltted themselves to be brow-beaten
and driven away from the quarries of
science In their search for foundations
to put under their convictions. The
workers engaged In taking up the walls
of physical science have attempted to
prompt the hills In which good stone
under-pinning Is found, with the gen
eral understanding that they were lift
ing up the only structures bottomed on
hard blocks of fact. Religion In their
esteem Is beautiful enough In Its way,
often giving zest and color to the live*
of the sorrowing and the storm-tossed,
but about as Intangible ns the rainbow,
throu'gh° the° s *nse. Tl. tmendSd on.VTpi^nf wSS thV ciK»d
tSfasg ss saanaKc-ss trv»^ h sSBSr.«2S; «£
raw material sent In from* the outside
raw material .1 , ...
world. In so far as the author of all
things has expressed thought through
mountains, rivers, trees, hears ® Bd
worms, the mind can And and make
science out of It. But In so far as he
has expressed thought through the
qualities and relations and aspirations
of the soul, through the elements or
mind as felt In thinking, desiring and
willing, and through the elements of
religion its felt In reverence awe and
wonder, we can do no more than spec
ulate about It, we can build no science
out of It. This Is to assume that He
has constructed a myrled-toned organ,
without being able to play upon any
except the bass notes. That he can
utter Himself through matter, with Its
atoms molecules and compounds but
not through mind with “« rjaioib con-
■ctence and Imagination. That He can
speak through thunder, and hall, and
storm, but not through kindness, sacri
fice and devotion. That He can show
Hls thought in the structure of the
lion, the tiger and the hyens but not
through the Ideals of Dents ‘5* con
secration of Francis and the mvlw ol
Florence Nightingale. If God ex
presses Himself In tangible facts only.
less sort — _ -
they are polite enough to say, a perfect
right to do so, but they deceive them
selves the moment they suppose any.
thing under their haluclnatlons, beyond
the ban-yen tree kind of props which
grow downward qut of their Imagina
tions. The clergy and others engaged
In building theological homes In which
to house transcendental hopes ore to!
erated as mild forms of animated Inno.
cence whose presence lend an Item of
variety to social existence. Religious
leaders themselves have gradually
reached the strange conclusion that the
scientists have a monoply of the whole
realm of certain knowledge, while they
have a monopoly of the whole realm
of faith. So It cornea to be acceptad'aa
a fair and equitable division to credit
up the chemists, geologists, etc., with
all the science and the prear.hera and
professors of religion with all the faith.
But such a line of separation Is not sat
isfactory, because science Is Impossible
without faith, and faith Is Impossible
without science. It takes as much
faith to accept the scientific proposition
that a particle of hydrogen In water at
the freezing point zulTera 17,700,000,000
every second, and - yet In spite of all
these hindrances manages to go a dla-
Some are esthetic and approach the
i mind through the sense of beauty;
I some are moral and approach the mind
| through the conscience, and some are
spiritual nnd approach the mind
I through the religious sense.
Now, every grade ot science haa
tests peculiar to Itself for the estab
lishment of Its claim to be certain and
demonstrable knowledge. There nre
things that knock for admission Into
the mind at one or the other of the
five front doors of the senses. Some
things tap—the nerves which are ar
ranged to ring when objects come be
fore the eye. Whatever seeks entrance
Into the Interior of the soul through
the eye must find admittance at that
oiienlng or It ran not get Inside at all.
It might knock at the door of taste or
touch, or smell or sound, but would not
be recognised. It would be very ab
surd for the things which conform to
such conditions os enable them to en
ter the mind through the eye, to get In
and then put on airs, and look with
bottom of man, and the spirit with Its
religious sente at the top of him, there
Is the mind with Its powers of percep
tion, and reason.whlch takes the In
dividual perceptions nnd generalizes
conceptions from, them, and the memo
ry: which retains permanently the con-
eepttoni. The function of tb* reason
Is to take up Impressions ns'so much
raw material out of which to manufac
ture science, which Is knowledge with
the elements of uncertainty taken out
of It. Without reason there can be no
science, as there can toe no cloth with
out the loom. Upon the reason the
body and the mind and the spirit d#‘
pend for science. We have seen that
science Is Impossible on the human
side of Infinitude, unless'thought Is sent
through the elements which make It up
from the divine side. That thought Is
sent through the atoms and forces of
the material world Is proven by the
science the reason makes out of the
Impressions the senses bring from It.
That thought la sent through the ele-
self-complacent contempt on Buch as tnents °f mind Is proven by the science
- • ■ of psychology the reason forms from
the Impressions sent from It. That
thought Is sent from the spiritual world
to the religious sense Is proven by the
attempt the reason has bean making In
all ages to ronvert It Into knowledge.
But the possibility of a science of re
ligion Is denied by men like Haeckel,
because they say that rellglotu Impres
sions are hallucinations, and not from"’
DR. J. W. LEE.
tance of 17 miles every minute when no
one ever saw or lasted a hydrogen par.
tide and could not If hls life depended
upon It, as It does to accept the relig
ious proposition that God made all
things and controls them. The amount
of faith necessary to accept the state,
ment that a cubic Inch of air contains
three hundred qutntllllons of molecules
—every one of which, flying on Its way;
changes Its direction 8,900,000,000 times
a second, and yet travels the distance
of 18 tnlles a minute—is simply enor
mous.
III.
Hclence Is a body of certain demon
strable knowledge made by. the combi
nation of mental activities with differ
ent phases of the universe which pre
sent themselves before the mind. Some
of these phases are material and ap
proach the mind through the line
senses.-some are mental and approach
the nflnd through the Imagination.
managed to get In through the ear, or
the nose, or the tongue, or the hand.
The colon of Murillo would have no
reason to regard themselves ns supe
rior to the notes df Mozart. How the
general opinion ever came to prevail
that the mind can make science out of
none of the Impressions which come
Into It ezeept such a* the senses bring
In from tangible facts Is a great mys
tery. Because of this It Is thought
that the only knowledge we have that
Is certain nnd absolutely rellabl
that the reason has built out of sc
Impressions. It Is admitted that the
knowledge the reason forms by reac
tion on Impressions from the material
world Is toot to be demonstrated In the
same way In which ws would teat
the knowledge the reason makes out
of Impressions received from the Inte
rior world of self, or from the alt-en-
compeaalng world of the divine spirit.
But If It Is the business of reason to
manufacture science out of Impressions
and If It Is the only mill under heaven
In which Intuition can be turned Into
knowledge. Its mechanism must be
comprehensive and line enough to. work
up the perceptions of God and the per
ceptions of self to as finished a degree
of certainty as the perceptions of the
material world.
IV.
Man, through hls body, la related to
the universe of matter; through hls
mind he Is related to the universe of
thought, and through hls spirit he la
related to the Infinite Spirit. Between
the body, with Its live senses at the
any whither exrept the diseased Imag
ination. This, however, need not alarm
us, fo.r the same position has been
assumed with regard to physical sci
ence. No less a student of matter than
Professor William K. Clifford declared
that he took the outside world ot ob
jects merely to mean a group of hls
feelings. "The object" (or material
world), he said, “Is a set of changes In
my consciousness, and no't anything out
of It. . . . The Inferences of physi
cal science are all Inferences of my
real or possible feelings, Inferences of
something actually or potentially In my
consciousness, not of anything outside
of It."
Few serious-minded students, how
ever, ever permit themselves to be vic
timised by their own conceits Into
such absurd statements. If science Is
that part of the experience of the
Creator, man. by observation, experi
ment qnd action, has been able to
convert Into hls own experience, then
we can no longer believe the only part
of God thought we can make science of
Is that confined to material crea
tion.
The author of all things expresses
HU Intelligence through matter,
through mind and through the relig
ious nature. So from the beginning
Impressions have come to man from
th" naturn! world outside, from the
mental world Inside, and from the aplr-
Itunl w.oirl shout him Thnt hie first
science should have 1 made from,
impressions coming to hint through 1
the bodily senses Is not strange. H«
lived at the ffrat malnlv 111 hls body.
He did not begin hls enreer with a col- ;
1 V 1 o.luoatlon. Tlif* World at first was-
a kindergarten. The lessons to be"
learned were contained In the rivers,
forests, bears, storms, stars, cold and'
heat. Besson was crude and clumey
nnd reacted on the Impressions otter
a fashion, but was not disciplined
enough to create any but the vaguest
sort of knowledge.
God hns spoken through the natural'
world. Hie voice hoe been heard, and:
Hls words Interpreted and classified.
God has spoken through tho mental
world. Hls voice has been heard nnd
while Ills words, being more subtle
and charged with richer meaning have,
not so definitely been Interpreted ami
classified, still students are at work
by day and night searching for their
meaning, and they will never cease
until they know the word of the Lord
expressed'through the elements of
mind, as completely as they know Hls,
word expressed through material crea
tion. God haa spoken through the spir
itual nature and man from the time
of Adam has heard Hls voice. All the
nations of the earth have been henring
It from the beginning nnd many nil
down through the ages, here and there,
have Interpreted It and classified It and
acted upon It. But aa yet the thought
of God expressed through the spiritual
world has not been acted upon hj
venal reason, apd converted
body science valid
Into
for all men. This
Is to be the work of the comlnc "-n-
turles. We see tho direction the mind
Is to take In building It up. We already
know the data olit of which It Is to be
formed. We can recognize the flrst
■streaks of the dawning of the coming
day when the knowledge of the Lord
shall cover the earth as the waters cov.
er the sea. Individual saints from the
time of Abraham have tome to a clear
knowledge of God nnd acted, upon It.
The father of the fnlthfal read the
thought addressed from above to him
through hls spiritual nature. Ur
of the Chaldees converted It Into
knowledge aa certain to him as ever
was gravitation to Sir Isaac Newton.
Hut the thought of God expressed
through the religious nature of hu
manity as a whole has not been ob
served and classified ulth a view to
converting it Into science.
