New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-07

prepared for him he carries the seeds OF IN n
very person and he has 10 suffer pam OF Dony anu
OF mind Around him are storms 20 Destroy anu
and craving sts and repnngs and passions
which war against each other ana war akailst . i
soul True there sre or ~ and nd benrceDcs OBJ
and pressing itself on tue notice Forces buu III
themselves, and made by these combinations 20 prouuce
the most perfect mathematical figures beauty aPpenn
everywhere IN the sky and earth, in pitnee ar,
plant. Every organ OF the animal ira ~. -
good in itself, and liable 20 accomplish lts evl-
dent purpose. There il order In star ami SUI
but order out ~ disorder. IL s beauty in nowe
turning 10 dustwe see II in that foliage beautiful
when 1t is fadingdoes not the Father feel when
he commits the body Of his to the grave dust 10
dust ashes 20 ashes Man has high aspirations, nut u
only to feel how far he falls beneath them All theSe
facts quite as much so as the movements OF tue
planets elliptic orbits, the laws OF development IN
the vegetable and animal Kingdoms. Tae prordest
thinkers they brought face 10 race win thesi
facts obliged to acknowledge that they cannot DIS
cover final cause In many OF the most common
agents OF nature, as, for instance, derangeinent
TO which every organ OF the frame Is liaDle,
and in the parasites which dwell in and feed on
the body Of all our noblest animals The microscope
shows rs how exquisltey they formed but all 10
nlIct the exeruciating pain. We may apologize
for OF these things, but cannot explain for n-
stance the OF ineurdbe and madness
Psychologists know that the OF the body the eye
the stomach, the liver the brain, might nave Dteh
and pain, to which they are exposed, not Dy
accident, but by their very nature ana
structure. Combined science, as it looks luto
the future is obliged to tell that the world and All
that il therein shall first have it's heat exhausted, and
then in the disintegraon shall burnt with fire and
what the new order OF things TO Issue out OF TINS eo
mental he Now this is in fact the sum
Of what science has been able to say about world.
Our rises out Of dust, Is formed into beautiful
shapes OF warning powers, becomes order aud
progressive ORDER and ends in dissoving heat. Our
earth comes cloud and ends in conagraoD. The
highest being enters it, makes known ms presence
by cry, and ends his march through II In the grave
Surely all this, while there is much in the evident
order and henecence TO elevate, there is not little 10
and to humble u.s. The prOfoundest thinkers feel
that they have come here to an unknown power Dehd
and beneath all and are impelled under choking feel
windows to be opened to let IL III.
Meanwhile that other and higher law, the moral law,
the law written the heart. has something very i'm
portant to utter, and pronounces III the name OF
God the Lawgiyer 1t afrms OF itself that 1t is unbend
ing stone, and yet finds that man has broken IT, IL
points emphatcay TO Judgment TO come 1t cannot
say where when but certain come certain that
there law, eternal law and God guard 1t. The
closes with each placed before that bar to give
account OF the deeds done ia the body whether they
have been good whether they have been evil, and
where leaves him. In the midst OF the cOnagrat0n OF
worlds with undying matter taking new shapes and
sOul-certanly undyng that matter ana ready to
consigned to ITS new place OF light or OF darkness
rocc asr as e ma oo t mon tbe a We
in general that there correspondence be-
tween them Ia both have moral law set forth, in
by the conscene, in the other by the commands
prohibitions III Eden by the tables OF stone on Mount
Sinai and by the Sermon che Mount IN the New Tes
lament there is this important difierence the
tells that the law has been broken and proof points
to the wickedness in the world and the guilty renorse
which agitates mems bOsoms, but reveals way by
which the sin can be forgiven; whereas the other,
while IL declares that sin has been committed clearly
makes known way by which the sinner may be recon
ciled to God Both reveal order in the world one as
appointed by God the other as discovered by man. In
both we have progression in the Divine workmanship
SANG The Bibie Jaws thai after man was made God
rested from creation; and Dr. Dana that
since appeared, geology does not disclose single
new species of plant or animal. It is surely
a curious circumstance that the picture of the
formation OF our earth was drawn upward OF
5000 years before geology started, aud has
continued unchanged amid ali the shiftngs Of science.
The inspired record tells us, what anthrOpOlOgY
confrms that man has Ofold nature-a body formed
our of q
image OF God, 0reathed INTO HIM. Nor Is there any
tradicton as 10 chronology For first geology has no
clock TO tell time. What it reveals is absolute
but relative il tells that certain epoch must have
been before another epoch but ITS deductions are very
glacial epoeh-earrles us: These uncertainties have
by DIR. Wyyle Thomson and Dr. Carpenter,
which geoIogists il they had found them as possils
would at once have ascrbed 10 much earlier epoch.
And 10 Scripture IL contains no inspired chronology
OF early history what passes as such is drawn out VI
biOgeneOlOgles by fable methods, and drawn out OF
imperfect data. AT this stage the Scrpturil record
opens; new and strange phenomenon is TO appear In
the Universe of God. In furnishes glimpse OF early
human uar At the corresponding point sceuce gives
intimations Of a struggle IN which waring ee-
ments aud gradual evolution or planets and satellites
the consolidated into center ana capable OF being
seen the earth; and when living beings apyear-
science cannot tell hOw-we find animals deyOuTing
one another the strong with their terrible fangs and
laws prevailing the weak disappearing through disease
and death accompanied with brute passion ana pain.
History and biography came I'm 10 tell us how much of
human activity has been spent in teuds among in
diyiduals, families and nations Poetry, and at later
date romance take up the theme ana they delineate
the hopes and fears and passions OF our nature aud
our bOsOms beat respOnslvely 10 their descriptions.
We feel that the Scriptures speak profoundly
and truly when they say For the earnest expectation
of the creature Tor cTeatOD) waiteth for the anesa
ton of the sons OF God For the creature was made
subject TO vanity willingly, but 10y reason OF MIN
who hath subjected the same in hope. Because tue
creature itself shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty OF the children Of
God for we know that the whole creation
(.reaturel groaneh in pain together until now
IA
internal struggle Qsom. vii. 1920 "Ye will
is present with me- bat now to perform that winch Is
good find not" Our world Is not what some describe
H. IL is not what the nationalist would have lt peace
ful landscape with nothing but order and beauty. II
forces upon observation scenes which the eXpOund
ers OF natural theology and your Unitarians who, dis
carding inspiration would fall back on natural religion
natural and revealed, right when they that
difficult Impossible to discover nnal cause
nr everything In bod R9 10 disease every mem pb
often amounting TO anguish in sorrow which refuses TO
be cOmfOrted, IN despair issuing In suicide. We may
apologize for these things, but cannot explain them
The last OF the great series OF German spectators,
which began with Leibnitz and was continued by Kant
aud Hegel and terminated In Hartmann, have dweIt
the natural evils of terrible power and prevalence found
every the world and the speculative philosophy
which began with optimism ana ehded Win peismism,
audaciOusy avOwed this, gaining not few followers
The great living speculative thinker Of England belong
ing TO very different school from that OF observation
maintains this world gives evidence Of nothing
ySnd e ey e.S our xoT ali I' Snse aS S
hope all qualification aud gayety. We live world
and the morning constitute the first day. and the
second day. ana 50 Oh; where every man man
Cannot leave behind or overleap; and every
or later will have TO taste Of bereavements ngrattude
iLusage carrying within him fire OF fear lust, and
envy ready TO burst into confederation, and burn up
the soul fire Is 10 burn up our world. LOOK now at
This picture and now at that" and say whether they
not answer face answereth 10 face In glass, differing
each other only one twin brother dhereth from
another.
Mathematical science has demonstrated that all that
thesm argued in respect 10 the order OF the final
cause aud benevolent purpose in the werd true and
cannot be set aside Every natural law, mechanical,
chemical, vital is good Every organ OF the BODY when
from disorder, Is good. There Is certainly the
exquisite adaptation in the eye, however We may
for its formation ana for the numerous diseases
hitch seize upon IL. AgassZ has shown by induo
facts reaching the whole history OF the an
nal ngdom that there is plan IN the succession OF
organic life Ii has the correspondence Of connected