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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.