The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-06-23

and, losing his personality, is put down in
their calculations as zero. They, then,
give the world their theories they present
the results of their investigations and, in
Them, we look for Gods place,-but in
vain. God is gone. In the temple or in
the monks cell in the child's prayer or in
the woman's heart scientists are wiling
enough to admit him. But IN their studies
and their theories he must not show his
face. IA his nature defies their powers,
they deny his personality.
Foolish men and blind and proud
every phenomenon which science investi-
gates is link in the chain of logic which
binds tile effect to the cause, the created
to the uncreated, and leads reason back to
God. sG
Every fact you find at your feesfs msfe
than q mere fact,-is an argument in favor
of God.
Every visible leads a way to the iuvisi
Bile every sensible rises up to what is
above sensible. Every atom is a star to
light the path of reason up to God.
The Universe, with all things in it, is a
vast consequence which must be traced
back to the Creator as itsliying Premises.
And he ia moro than blind, -he isguiity,-
guilty at the tribunal of true human intel
lect, as welLassat: the jadgnne6t-seat of
! divine intelligeuce, who accepts that conse-.
quence and repudiates lite premises; or
who tries to explain tile one without taking
account of the other. ~
Science, in its calculations, Inust admit
the fret Iucalculable, must acknowledge
God not as q valueless cypher,-nor as an
infinite, .lifeless quantity,-but as an inf
mite, living Reality-holding the reasons
of all things that are or can be. 1t is no
honor to science to deny God, his place.
That denial makes science senseless,-
makes all it's facts, absurdities and all it's
conclusions falsehoods. The philosophers
head needs God as we'll as the child's heart.
There is nothing ineligible without him.
He unknown, nothing can be really
known. lie denied, nothing can be affirm
ed. He disproved, nothing can be proved.
Logic needs his light as we'll as heaven.
For Reason dethropes herself and abdicates
her roy al powers the very hour she repudi-
ates them and the dark, strange riddles
of this earth he cannot unrayel WHO loses
hold of the truths of God.
i God has not his place in science 1 mean
the false science of our age. For in true
science God is sovereign. He verifies it's
p,inciples,-gives it's laws and consecrates
it's conclusions. True science 10 his Evan
gelist. False science is his Judas. True
acience. is HE humble servant. False
science is his public or secret enemy.
Will anyone deny that the science of OuI
times, in the greater measure, is not only
negatively separated from, but activity op.
posed to Religion. Are not men marshaline
natural truths in an attitude of hostility to
the truths supernatural Aud what is this
bnt, war on God 2 Not that the truths Of
science can ever contradict the truths OIL
Religion men falsify science into the
r foe Of God. They have taken Him away
f They must bring Him back,-else they
3 shall work deep injury on the age. Theil
+ theories must tabernacle Him; their prin
/, ciples must lead on to Him; their research
es must be made in His light. Then viii
they give the world a wisdom full of bless
p ing.
They must make msteriat things stepping
, stones Lending u, 20? the tbrpSeof the I'm
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