The New York herald., 1874-09-13
The Religious Pa >'ss Ola Iyno"u'

The Religious Pa % VI"
AS might naturally be hlpposed, the re-
hgious press of the city thist'TeeR mas Win
almost entire unanimity, taken PROFESSOR
Tyndalls latest utterances in hand aha de-
nounced or refuted them as best suh>so
their tastes and treatment The Independent
declares that Tyndall is rampant that there
is very little that is noteworthy in the posi-
tions taken, and nothing ut all that is con-
yincing in the arguments by which they are
supported. 1t shows the absurdity of a large
part OF his address, as it is related to English
men who are intellectually free and untram-
melled, and insists that his heroism is slightly
superfiuous Between true science and true
religion says the Independent 'there cannot
be conflict. No man is truly religious who
does not with devout and joyful mind accept
every truth which God has revealed in nature
and no man is entitled to much consideration
as q scientist who does not know, what Pro-
fessor Tyndall admits, that there are some
things in human nature which cannot be
gauged by the balance or the yardstick.'
The Methodist intimates that the fact that
last Sunday men went to church as usual.
prayed to God and sang hymns of praise to
Him, notwithstanding Mr. Tyndalls deciara-
ton in substance that there is no God, is
proof that there is in mans own nature q
witness to the being Of Gcd-a witness that
can stand against all the learned Professors
argumentations. 1t says that Tyndall does
not call his statement fact or truth of
science, but a confession of his own faith, in
which his ''vision is prolonged backward
across the boundary of experimental evil
dence," and as this is the only evidence the
Professor accepts as valid he goes, says the
Methodist, beyond the boundary of all evil
dence. 1t feels sorrow for him but it has
no fear that his confession will disturb the
established faith OF the human race.
The Christian Age says that Mr.. Tyndall
does not deny, for he cannot, the existence of
creator of matter. He admits that ''the
ton of power absolutely inscrutable to the
intellect of man. AS little in our day as in
the days of Job can man, by searching, find
this power out"
The Christian Entelig ,ncer finds in Dr. Tyn-
dalps late address the same Objectionable
statements which he had dragged into his lee
ture on "Light' in this city two winters ago,
and for which Dr.. John Hall so caustically
reproved him. The Intelugencer proves from
his latest utterances and his abandonment of
all disguises that he believed then as he be-
lieves now, though he very adroitly on the
g. cd k,a 10, o,I
inference of his words. 1t insists that Tyn-
dalPs threadbare process of bringing up the
Inquisition and Bruno and Calico as evidence
of the hostility OF religion to science is baby
ish and worse-it is dishonest and malicious.
He must lug the catapult of his wrath away
back to the sixteenth century to get swing
enough on it to lodge it where he longs to see
it, in the breastworks of the present faith of
Christendom.
The Examiner and Chronicle reviews some of
the Professors statements, and declares that
between his facts and his conclusions there is
a chasm which no logic can bridge and which
it is not fair to leap. 1t then asks fare
Tyndall is more moved by hostility to Chris
tianity than by pure zeal for science?" 1t
therefore classes him with those whom the
Scripture says "do not like to retain God in
their knowledge" The Examiner then denies
positively the assumption that all matter
shows the phenomena of life. ''All matter is
not expressive of inherent mental and moral
energies. Hence matter cannotbe assumed TO
have in and of itself, the potency of every
form and quality of life
The Baptist Weetly thinks that or such views
as Mr. Tyndall's men will not bewilling to re-
tures We are not to congratulate. ourselves
that we were created little liver than the
angels but that we have spru,g from and
risen little above the monkeys. The beauty
of Tyndalrs style, says the WeeAy, hides the
hdeousness of his doctrine, BIT when we
come really to grasp his mearng we find
nothing but the most dreary naterialism
Matter, we are taught, is eternal atoms may
certainly change, but that is oil, nd death is
a cessation of being.
The Boston Pilot considers it shnge that in
this latest summary of science w fail to find
tendency toward materialism nact though
we do find it in words. AS or scientists
advance, they begin to realize II hard truth
that they are working on globe, OF plane;
their course bends to the spo whence it |
started, and the Beyond stares lem in the
face mysterious and inscrutable asver.
The INDIAN MARAuDERs on theolains find |
General Davidson a less agreeablelstomer to