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content IN II: faith and pity for him"

content in iss faith ,ns AND pity for ,d n;mm
npon the subject beyond the rest OF US:
He offers US material universe that
selves, and informed with the promise and the
potency OF all forms OF life. This Is his specula-
mans upon The corner. and no more He otrsrs Il
| to those who believe that nothing was ever made
without aat h nSt9ng was ever aesSHea
without Iawgiver[n short, that power and In
tellgence necessarily precede all results OF power
apprehcnded by the human mind.
| "Wnat do. you think that Tyndaips confession
n think" the Doctor responded, shat It SIMPLY
shows how utterly incompetent the pure scientist
| truths. such briefly In tine above Is my opinion
| concerning Tyndallism. have given you IN sub
the November number Of StsrSne,as KontHiv In
which you Will find the subject thoroughly dis
Tnus closed the interview.
'sPhtliP Quilibet" ON Religion in An
| tagOnism to Darwiuism-Is the Devel-
opment Theory Consistent with the
Idea or Soul Which Christianity Holds
| Man to Aavef
| During an interview held with the editor OF
"Drftwood," In the GALAXY magazine, whose iden-
tity is concealed In the somewhat peculiar nom de
plume Of "Phiiip Quilibet,"I listened TO The fol.
| lowing:-
| Physics, Mr.. Correspondent, Ike theology, has
| On arrogance OF Its own; unlike theology, It Is
free for the most part, from clOudiness OF phrase
| and conception. There ia o certain narrowness
| in the question which Tyndaii makes hts
| 'Lucretian'' put to Bishop Butler. "What you
cali the true self has q local habitation In each
or u.s. Thus localized. must It not possess form ?"
AS well ask for mental picture OF love or thought.
STILL in Ringing down his gauntlet at Belfast 70
the Christian 1aith Mr.. Tyndal may, perhaps, &C
compish the service OF driving evangelical Chris.
tianity into consistent hostility to the views Of
Darwin. Huxley. HAchel and Spencer touching
| the origin Of man. In our generation
| the physicists, II they have not conquered have
| certainly cowed the ecclesasrlcs. Many years
| ag0 when geology, reading at the time only the
testimony OF the rocks not as yet fishing up proofs
| from the floor or the sea. discovered the worlds
antiquity, 1t was arragned for contradictng the
Mosaic story OF creation. But to onset this the
| theory ingenious and timely, was preached that
| the ''day' In Genesis me0ht an age and thus the
harmony between physical science and Judaic
revelation was on this point restored. At length
Darwin launched upon the world hts theory
| OF the origin OF man IN apes, and
the origin Of apes in q tadpole. and
| some leaders In evangelical Protestauusm
| at once made up their minds to swallow that.
Surely we can account for a spectacle so incon-
an unreasonable tear lest the result OF rejecting
Darwinism might turn out like that Of putting the
supposed Mosaic history OF creation against the
| chronology OF the rocks.
| THE TRUE DANGER
was not In making. bat in avoiding such an issue,
for II man has steadily risen through BRUSH
| forms what must we say or that system OF doc
own image from which perfected sta1e he SO
| fell as TO need divine sacrifice and re.
anoe b sss y Prnss
ton College, had read his admirable essay upon
'The Religions Aspects Of the Doctrine OF Develop
1--WE have TO decide whether or not we are to &C.
cept the theory OF the amiabie but think mis-.
words, whether we ought 10 believe that man. as
he Is, came from cots OF animated jelly. or whether
he IS the immediate work OF the Almighty Being"
The former, or Darwinlan man, he thought, can
not be the man spoken OF In GenealS but
was only fair to menton tna. the Bne Wus not
| intended to instruct us IN science.
In this discussion before the Alliance some Of the
evolution might turn out to be true, and hence
adopted da,ying, deprecasory tone ane logic
ns Mr. S X ssss
| how Oar wintsm Is
| THE LONG SOUGHT THEORY
which eliminates God from Intervening in the Gre
were packed by him in the larvH OF the ascidian
! which proves that man acquired ior himself IN ms
noas to have been directly SrsatSsd INTO MN y
said %os 1s me asses the sS sy
Very true; no disclosure Of a,,d science, how
atomic theory which Iyndall revives from
Democrtus We must suppose sup ow q power
created the Ultimate atoms for the arst principle
OF the creek sage was From nothing nothing
lie has been developed out OF one Of three primor
dial iorms, does not deny the work OF God IN ere.
INJURED to this pause OF Darwin on the brink OF
materaltsm, admits that 1T is by the operation or
claimed the human understanding to be mate.
rial product, "a result Of the play between
pressly teach the SOUPS mortality No scrlptural
au1nority' SAINT; prophet pro Or apostle from Moses
brea thed into him by the direct act OF the Divine
spirit. No word OF the founder Of Christianity on
| this vital point leads US to fancy that He knew
that an ape developed himself into Adam alter
having been himself developed upward from
We may well smile at the elaborate treatlses
made to show that the evolution theory OF Tyndall
Religion. why not prove that IL leaves s US the
sense OF taste and the faculty Of N6ecttOnY The
Mrht nave on reUlon, but what enecs Is would
have on revelation. Undoubtedly worship under
the evolution theory would be as becoming as
public ought to cease plying tne heather in their
blindness" since tnat theory seems to I'm
upon mans origin than ST Paul, and Lucretius
tnan Christ. 1yndal 'discerns in matter the
promise and potency OF every form and quality;
but he discerns this only by doing what no SCI
entiGc man 10 forced to do-namey, ''prolonglng
the vision backward across the boundary OF the
experimental evidence" A like exercise OF faith
10 needed Tor the evolution theory, which IL also
pure hypothesis, unaccepted by many physicists,
Including Agasslz. Without lack OF candor, either
that can be rejected or the Scripture theory OF the
same subject The hardest feat II to hold both
theories Ut once.
THE WALKING CUBE.