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

whole earth az the waters do the channel OF
t tno sen Ootemporaneous with these we nay nay
their faces shining with light as they look forward 70
Throne Of God In the middle OF the ages that
person appears passing through suffering TO conquest
world.
| SPIRITUAL LIFE AND ITS FRUIT CIVILIZATION.
| Beyond the central figure life appears God
comes forth Creator the first time since he rested
afer creating the heavens and the earth Just as in the
prehistoric ages there had appeared plant life,
ana an animal life. and moral life, so now we
T Spiritual hfe-it IL the dlspensation OF the spirit
1hose VINO have for ages In darkness now
see great light. new people come forth, not
among all people, ike SALT TO preserve like seed TO
propagate the life all over the world. With that spirit
isauon and widening and the cultivation of the
intellect and the refining OF the feelings. But the soul
mas SUN 10 De plowed and In order 10 yield seed
and frit; the spiritual forces have to meet and over
come OBSTACLES and good before it succeeds
has 10 produce martyr out OF whose ashes new life
proceeds Not only so, but there is contest in every
heart the flesh lustoth against the spirit and the
spirit against the esh" and these are conrBry the one
to the other. The cause moves the light comes
from te sun In vibrations, as the tides come up upon
advancing. In the last symbolic book we hear a
cesson OF trupets sounding 70 call men to the battle
| purify the atmosphere. Many pass TO and fro, and
Piled and fbe RnS IN ~ rss are oyar tb
whole earth. which has rest for thousand years-we
becomes dim from the distance but we see the old ad
versary loosed for little while and the earth burned
with fre and the dazzling bright throne OF judgment
set up and the Goldman upon IL, and every giving
an account OF the in the body whether they
have been good or whether they have been evil and
then separation these descending by their weight
nto her own place OF blaeEness and those correct up
10 heaven 0y their attraction 10 God where they join in
| the song salvation to our God that sitteth on the
throne, and u the Lamb"
| INSCRIPTIONS IN THE HALL OF SCIENCE
III. The Scientific Side-There, the side, we
have body Of men busily employed in drawing figures
and arviu tIr I,bt Tho
and present OF world They left their motive
powers and have to work by observation. They
kept from errors by any special guidance, and much
that they write LAID oOlOrs which fade. in false
come after Still much remains and shall remain for
ever chiseed in the rock and TO be eAaced. We
evil, have proclaimed laws less powerful to
cure obedience Then there morasts from Socrates
| downward, inscribing on that wall what they have
found written their hearts, and which they regard
If only they read IL Alright is transcript Of the holy ma
| you may notice the broad proved philosophers from
Plato and Aristotle EDWARDS, specializing on fate and
chance and the relation OF the universe to God and dem
onsratng that mans soul has conscious unity and per
sonaiity Of which il can never be deprived The next
group consists OF historians who have given lovely
narratives Of the great deeds OF world OF the sacr
fees which men have made for kindred and four coun
| try, but who have also 10 record enormous crimes
political feuds and wars which have deluged the earth
Next and more influential are those who express pop
uar feeling and have told what this world OF men and
women is and have enshrned their thouhhts in verse
that they may be caught more early and remembered
longer Let notice the topics OF which they treat
| The Oldest OF them surpassed for natural
] strength, has sung OF the wrath OF Achilles,
| and the evil thus wrought Another, full
OF grace, has sung OF ana OF hero fleeing from
burning city, and crossing stormy TO found an
empire. In later age We see one who though blind
has seen farther than other men, and has painted de-
| monacal fends -" Paradise Lost and Paradise
| Reeaned." Another hand has taken the Tyre,
and with old Horace and modern sonesters
the hatred the hopes and ddiaPPointme6Rts
agitate mems bosoms. third class, led by our high
proved dramast. have exhibited a stage what they
| have let us into the secrets of the working of
ambition, passion, jealousy pride vanity vanity envy;
| the common people, in describing their joys
often sensual and mad, comes TO the conclusion
that IMAM is made to mourn" Romantic writer's
in these years taking up the same WORK, and
are spinning which exhibit the strength aud weak
crnel betTayas illustrated by seduction and murder
All Of these artists describe this earth as strangely
mixed with hill and hoUows, with lakes sleeping
in repose rent by storms with peaceful valleys ana
terrible gullies, with streams flowing gently ana then
pouring fearful cataracts with an ocean inviting
repose on It's bosom and anon tossing OH men ana
vessels like seaweed. , ,
by the expounders OF science as you see them there with
their instruments Tor weighing ana anu LrL
labonous calculations On the res0us sde SyerJ lhlns
ascriDed To God, proceeding OrderlS- 4lou mast
established the earth and il abdeth They continue
this day according to thine ordinances; for a are y
servants" somewhat different Dut NOT lu-
consistent view is given OF the same Gp)ee
cribed 10 what is called Law, which, however,
when properly understood, implies n laW-glVer 30
these men, consciously or uneonselousy are 1Iioaa9
TO view the plan OF the Great Creator on TINS SIDE
OF the hall Of science you see Inscribed ls natngtt
ical figures, such as squares FRANCES arehs, sPas
and sections OF the cOne and 1t turns out that these
heavens and in the earth, and are made
to do so by o God who, as Plato says, geome-
Tasn you anS see dwns tha ali the
physical forces are notifications OF one ana the same
gression of animated beings OF plants and animals IL
has shown that there are geological epoehs-hrs an
then the lower creatures with animal lie, then fishes,
fowls, reptiles, quadrupeds, and finally man.
THE THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT.
In looking at these phenomena men discover every
where development or evolution 1t appears in mani
mate nature IN suns planets and moons, being evolved
out Of an original matter in a way which implies that
the earth is older than the and must have existed
ages, aud had light shining upon II before the sun
took his solid form IL characerste OF orgahZed
beings 10 produce Others after tnelf KIND l1ose VINO
view development in the proper lght see IN u Hny
form or manifestation OF Jaw. GIanea'qn h ~ . iaw I
taneouslyover SUM- moon. and stars the most remote
Development law Of successive nature, and secures
connection between the past ana the present, anu
add, the future, securing unity, and IL may ne,
progression from 10 IL Is merely ao e1hDlon
Of order running through successive ages the other
is Of order running through coexisting OBJECTS. -,
But at this point difficulties and disputes arse. IS ue
velopment so restricted the plant and animal pro-
duces an offspring only after is Klhd,tne Echen pro-
oak only the oak and the only the worm and the
bee only the bee and the horse only the h0rse vi
cumstances and under new conditions modification OF
kinds-thst s new species and an advance from age
TO age, from lower to higher formsf SOME MAINTAIN
that is no power nature TO change species aud
that when species appears IL must De Dy sh lue,
date fat God acting independently OF al natural
agents Others hold that there may be powers in ma
ture religious men say conferred by God, which gradu
ally raise species into higher forms by aggregation and
selection. l am not sure that religion mas any
or other OF this question, which II 10 for
scientific men TO settle. L am not sure that
has been created by special fiat OF God with no sec
ondary agent employed. But IN prosecuting these III
yestgations science comes walls OF adanhnt wnlch
will fall dow at ITS command and which II it tries
to break through will only PROSTATE II and cause u
to exhibit weakness before the world. III |
cannot develop without matter 10 de;
velop fron, and a. cannot where this original |