New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-17

for seeking there confirmation OF our hope in immortal
life. ought to look there ourselves Inc niss
~ TO ask for scientific evidence that each OF US
ia endowed with unchsnging identity-with realty
terday to day and forever, II Herbert Spencer could
admit Dr. Youmans could admit. II any wellinstructed
mental moecule entire and invisble-they would need
no further proof Of immortality; Every scientist Wo
must oonoode the Immortality without shadow OF hest
taon. Tho would follow as tue corollary OF tne
other. Yet all Evangelical Christians suppose believe
In real personal unity In each soul "a dndOuotingy as
they believe in the universe itself Tnen why Is nor our
immortality proved already To me II Is proved To me
the scientific evidence that mind Is indestruot-
iDlo Is as absolutely cony,ae,aS M science
teaches unequiyOcaly that nothing IN tne universe Sa
shes and gases which result arc the exact equivalents
Of the wood The whole substance and all It's forces are
This annihatlon IA positively incredible, and without
one element Of probability In s favor 80 Tar as eApor
ana force il has done so and then scientific reasoning has
added demonstrations But beyond all tbese nes te
intutlvo perception that In the existing nature OF sgs
real destructibity is impOssibility Let sclenco
prove TO s them that the soul Is reay at an tnaJ
there entity mind that exists IN as posluvo
more question the Immortality OF tho ono than OF the
other. Chemistry inclines to tho belief IN ultimate
atoms, indiyisble atoms. though the fact Is nos
easy OF absolute proof but the evidence ln FAVOR VI
ultimate atoms OF mind "a far more accessible ana con
yncing because II has the added element OF personal
consciousness in each TO attest iiS own oneness anu sun
plicity OF character To all the pnyslcai cFlueheo
which In the case, WIN us leRlLhdlc
auctions in tho other, we add new ana distinct ols
OF physiological facts and their nducuOns Ihefe IS no
time ana 10 ~ not par Ul my tga e2e9y mind is an
uty-not a process or an adaptation OF matter or OF
20 those who fully admit the unity and the reaity OF
mental natures. They need no proof on tnl'
point. They are entitled, then, 70 On i Joe 70
science to philosophy 10 psychology, for all tue ev
dence which they ever need TO assure them OF l-
mortal life. sponceran eyoutonists who resolve every
thingmatter aud mind aike-lnto ultimate impersOha
force have OF course personal life remaining I'm
mortality, tmpersonal. TO them ID unkn0waDe-an az
tribute OF the absolute VIII SCIENCE ever prove TO their
satisfaction that all force material or mental inheres III
its own subsance At least It should seek to do thus
or else accept of their position aud conclusions without
any murmulng. Personal annibatiOn ia too unutter-
ably dreary TO be accepted by Of us, It would seem
without q lifelong endoayOr to discover some
other reading OF the facts OF universe
so admirable in other respects as TINS -, III
which wa fnd ourselves immortality is a possibility
so prcele that very few would wln ely lose the hope
of possessing it without struggle TO rclhstae tc
selves It's lawful nheritors IL - not science Wo,ru
denies either God or immortality. The great discovery
OF the correlation and equivalence OF FORCES must ~
accepted as demonstrated but science has nOJ snow
That any substance and ia properties its forces can De
sundered, be bartered for any equlVaenl, LII ~
does show IA this, we may believe that o' di
atom whether Of matter OF mind, must remain as
unct aud unchanged from the beginning Entering INTO
a thousand combinations, undergoing endless changes
is still simply and entirely ITSELF and whether us prop
critics are living feless. they are equally immortal.
science itself but merely their modes VI the0rZing
from scientific data From the same data essehualy
with "A few added subtracted elemen.s the ehure
result Will be diferent-nay, be almost distinctly op
posed aud their most important conclusions moulou
reversed.
RELIGION SHOULD NOT BIZ A STUMBLING BLOCK.
what right them has religion stand appalled, before
the ,pid and alarming spread OF theories claiming IA
be grounded on Arm scientific basis aud yet not besti
Itself for very life 20 provo that they are but rrel
eyant speculatons, largely yitated by faacesf Evan
recal Christianity enters ts protest against the dog
mas of ROmauisn; but modern theOrzlag IN the name
nfI Id IA
by ROmani,m and prOfe' tantsm, by liberal CnrstlantI
and Thelsm pure and simple. sun wlth us s. III OoI
AMI Immortality These Professionals are gaming StOunu
with the nQuiring public; they are undermnls tue ou
faith with "a rapdity perhaps never equaltd before
Tens VI thousands Of the nOblest ana most ntegn art
doubling are denying the fundamental truths held ~
common by all who believe IN the living lnhnlte lhte
ligence as tho guiding energy OF the universe Ihoh
rsf behoOye an alike TO meet the issue fairly aud u
cOnprOmsInglY-tD meet IL DY a liesu appear 10
science and its teachings. daring TO abide ~ the surely
established rlctS ana ptlDep9s VI it ~ fatth a.
universal nature. Do we teach tue necessary Oh Ialth ~
God aud HIS government what faith could be more
sublime than that which dires ~ trust tno Yihul.auo
OF all truth 10 the inherent nature OF thlhgs cOhnleu
that when fairly expounded the most ncre9ulous us
accept every fact Of the Divine Orderi What mission
work can be fruitful OF good thlh tLe ehOit %
restore To cordial belief IN the reality Oh teI own
souls lost faith here. II anywhere l. iatal III an Us
consequences. Romansts, Eyangecas, Liberal Chrls-
tans and Theistswlth no claim to Cnristin name Dut
with one living fa;her' INC Author Oh az tnns
vet find that they all allied IN one religious brother
mood. Men everywhere asking earnestly aud Ia
great trouble soul, Il the religion VI science auu vi
the Bible one and ideutcai The greatest WORK when
lay before the august body Of representative Christians
VINO assembled in this city last week 10 have given
the waiting world the answer to that question: Taey
could hayc spoken with much authority, ana many
would have needed the utterance Inc answer musl
have been in the affirmative, for God Is one ana Ger
tany the ordainer of tho universe with all IT, lessons OF
truth. But IL failed to answer ana III THIS age
the people will never reject science, however they may
be tempted TO turn away from Religion WHICH tdlb VI
bold a. authentic and reliable the anirmatons of UNI
verse created ndOrscd by the GOD whom they wor
shin Better with Dr. McCOsh institute the search for
satan and his works even among the present nature
fkf nd hnll
religious theories by Gods own aud established iacts
duplicate universe of MUD and materooOperatlye and
still evolving higher and higher resus-must ne lnh
elv more satisfactory than any implicit
trust Faith is good but sight is better. II the Father
has written his laws, mental and ply steal III Tie minds
a"d hndies nj men-has enwrought his moral code IN
the moral being ~ his chldren-as he has male the
laws Of motion inhere IN ais moving worlds To see anu
read his record 10 desirable beyond az comparison
VINO calls In question the laws Of motion Yet how we're
they dlscoyeTedi BY slght-insight intution-not by
faith so shall all truth be made manifest One sentiment
in conclusion There abideth faith hope, ohar1y-these
three but the greatest Of these Is charity
Mr. Rockingham then spoke of the probability that
free thought would abolish the clergy special order
They might remain as instructors and teachers; II So
they would exist as body of men to teach, not by
divine authority not by special inspiration, but men
who study science read literature, aud who. In their
large human sympathes, all their powers in the sin
gle work Of lifting men up out OF auimalism.
The Rev. VIM j. Potter spoke Of the gradual change
in the societies which he belonged, the Unitarian, in
which the ordinances formerly practced had been left
out He mentioned his society, in Bedford as
AN example, where the ordinance OF baptism had been
first discontinued followed by the observance OF
the communion.
In the evening the audience was largerand more In
sympathy with the speakers. Mr.. John Weiss read the
main paper OF the evenugiwhch will be found below il
full:
EVANGELICAL, ALLIANCES
by JOHN WEISS
We have had an Evangelical Alliance of the