New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-28
THE WAY OUT Or MATERIALIsM.

The Rev William Fishbough az De Garmo Hail.
At De Garmo Hall yesterday morning the
Rev. William Fishbaugh delivered sermon upon Ma
terialism in which he sought to show why Tyndall,
Huxley aud other scientific thinkers had become me-
eralists and also point the way TO escape such
result He took no text. The address illustrated
by diagrams and blackboard drawings. The audience
was not large and some Of those present frequently
interrupted the speaker with questions and comments
Science, the speaker said, responsible for this
materiaism. and science accordingly should furnish
the means repair the mischief it had wrought. All
those things which has been unable TO grasp it char
acterizes the unknown. The last pronunciamiento
of Tyndall on this subject has just been
says that matter contains in itself and of
itself the potency to develop everything even lntel-
and yet it is tendency which does satisfy certain
mysterious something which Mr. Tyndall finds deep
Gualifoatons Mr.. Tyndall Enthusiastically besrays his
inclination side with Lucreus In his opinion that the
that their ineracon throughout time renders all COM
bInations possible. Mr.. Huxley and Mr. Darwin and
the necessity OF a God arranger OF the proper
forces, yet their followers have fallen into false
materiasm, making matter everything and mind
almost subordinate. go far as can see, the only way
OF maeriasm is through IT, 1t wlllnot do at this
late day, when scientific nQuirers are marching on with
their pcaIes aud shoyels to quote Scripture to them
and to say os n snt he humans heart would ay TO
these very men who would peit scientific men with
question. whence originated these Scriptures,
ana by what authority they To be sure, there
themselves but TO say for example that material
Interpretation Of the first chapter Of Genesis must be
are they to be think Mr.. Tyndal has made quite
all the Use he could OF his researches He traces the
universe back 10 the primordial atoms Let make
little further inquiry Let US see where they
| got their power from. What is IL that puts
equilibrium The motion OF that atom is striving to
regain its lost equilibrium. Matter Is never moved
scrbed by the sum OF the forces which produce its
ton unless IL taken up by another force and carried
carbon or potassium taken from state OF comparative
equilibrium by force which Is above the plane OF the
mineral nature the plant The plant dies and then
chemistry reclams those atoms and they again find their
comparative equilibrium In the sphere OF chemistry
power to movetsef at ALL and II 10 is moved must be
moved by something which Is not matter IL these
have reasoned themselves out OF materalism In think
reasoning left out the better half of the faculties Of
| the mind. On this diagram are represented the
conception, memory, imagination. reflection, rea.
son, and intuition The scientists have only
founded three modes Of deduction
and the experimental mode They have arrived simply
Now Law Is simply the rule Of action but the
cause OF the action UntE the cause is known 1.-THE
don't know that this book will fall but see it does
now Another time other force might come in and
mate In the sphere of dead things. Now will show
you another mode OF reasoning. Here is a circle.
absolutely nothing In material sense, is the source OF
the power which Is supplied to the whole wheel. Now
everything In the OF It's development, from the
life OF the little epnemeries 10 the great life OF the
cycle III its career. In these cycles
there must be center OF power which harmonizes the
flow Of events. That brings them into order Now, the
underlying faculty of this fourth mode OF reasoning
Imagination. We mud that each succeeding cyclic
Is not precise repetition Of the preceding cycle,
because there has been Improvement 1t rising
by spirals The cycles, by such gytions rise higher
and higher That corresponds TO the fitch faculty renec
ton. At all times this moving body Is equidstant from
the center II passes all the sphere IN Time thus
CORES bonding 20 the sixth faculty, reason, which
gathers up and narmonzes all the odds aud ends OF the
universe into grand fact Now suppose that while
this moving body In motion 10 receives additional
impulse. however small inward La time It will ira
verse every portion which IL bound up In this
sphere. This is like intuition, whereby take thing
into minds and make lt part OF ourselves. What
do nnd when We come 10 that center Of eenters
Then for the first time the soul nds itself IN the holy
hOies, IN the very presence Of God Himself That Is
not material. IL Is the point around which all things
reyOye II "a the center or all power the origin OF all
motion. That Ia the first glimpse OF God Himself III
any OF you want 10 know Cod to the nnermost Of In
nermOsts ana there you will find Him.
uere you see a dark maAs lponIiag " another dia-