The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-25
LIEUTENANT N. r. nAURY.
Science aud Religion-Tbe Harmony
and Perfect Accord Between Them
Read What q Dtstisgaished Bel.
enti.t Said About Them.

| ent1sG Shlo ADout AhonAs
Editors of the Register.
A great deal has been said and writ
ten by host Of writers in our city DALI
lies on Science and Religion some
taking one view and some taking an
other; come laboring to show that the
church ignores the teachings OF science;
others again have worked with seeming
enthusiasm to demonstrate that the
two 60 hand in hand in per'ecting the
purposes OF the High and All Supreme
God OF the universe. With the latter
1 honestly and sincerely coincide. l
believe that without the preaching Of
the great truths OF our blessed Christi
anity, we would never have known any
thing about the important scientific dis
coveries that we DOW do.
Your readers will, doubtless, RENE m
ber the beautiful account that was pub
lished in the REalsTER, and almost ev-
ery paper in the Union, short time
ago. about the life, and especially the
peaceful and Christian death, in the
mountain gorees Of Virginia. OF Lieu
tenant NJ. +. Msury, of the U. s. N.
Lieutenant Maury was distinguished IS
scientist above any OF the present gen.
GRAFTON, and has ,eit to shine q name
and fame that will be fresh and green
| in ages to come, long after John Stu
art Mill, the atheist, has passed into
oblivion. /
hope every christian reader and
atheist in Wheeling, and elsewhere,
will carefully read this Interesting let'
ter. DEoiDhp'
Wheeling, February "a. 1874.
OBSERVATORY, WASHINGTON,
January %, 1855.
MY DEAR SIR:-Your letter revived
very pleasant remembrances. VI
Your questions are theorems. 1t would
REQUIRE volumes to contain the answers
to them. You ask about the "Har.
mony of Science aud Revelation" and
wish to know if I find distinct traces IN
the Old Testament of scientific knoDIedgs
and in the Bi5b any knOwledg Of the
pinds and ocean currents. /
Yes; knowledge the most correct and
valuable. "Canst thou bind the sweet
influence of the Pleiades 2 1t is q Curl
GUS fact that the revelations OF science
have led astronomers OF our own day
to the discovery that the sun is not the
dead centre OF motion around which |
comets sweep and planets whirl; but
that it, with its splendid retiuue oi
worlds and satellites. is revolving
through the realms Of space, at the rate |
OF millions OF miles in a year, and in
obedience 10 some Influence situated
precisely in the direction OF the star
Alcyop, one OF the fieislo" We do
not know how far of IN 'ne lm noIS;no
eSn,es eUs n% osrs ,ei,sentre Of revoisns
our Oldest observers or NJ not "es,
mepts been able to show US no" iar on
in the skies that beautiful cluster OF
stars is hang, whose influences man can
never bind. In this question alone
and the answer to it, are involved oo.p
the recognition aud exposition o' 'ne
whole theory OF gravitat'on. =,
Science taught that the world was
round: but potentates pronounced the
heIief beretical, Notwithstanding the
PsaImist while spostrophizng the
works of creation in one OF his suoilme
moods Of inspiration, when the ProPhe's
spoke as they were moved mao "
called the world the round world
and base it rejoice. :
"You recolIect when Calico was IN
nrisop, a pump maker came to him
9th his difficulties, because his pump
would not lit water higher than thirty;
two feet. The old philosopher thought
e il vas because the atmosphere would
6 no, press it up any higher; but the
}, bald OF persecution was upon him ano
4 he was afraid to say that the air had
weight. Now, had be looked 70 m ,ne
: Science of the Bible, be would have d'sI
s covered that the perfect man o.
d III" moved by revelation, had pro-
d claimed the fact thousands OF years be-
d fore HE maketh the weight OF 10
o winds" Job 10 very learned. and 10 on
e -peeches abound in scientific lore. ln'
!, persecutions OF the old astronomer
e would have been wiser and far mor'
9, mat had they paid more attention 10 h,'
ID wonderful book, for there they woult
,e have learned that "He stretcheth on
4 the North over the empty place, an'
re bapgeth the earth upon nothing, Iher
i'd is another proof that JOB was 1sm'Iis
,e With the laws OF gravitation, for b
p knev how the world Was held in IT
il nIsc,: and az for the empty place Il
D. tn. sky, Sir John Herschel has bee
G. sounding the heavens With his power
a tnl telescope, and gsugipg the stsrs. an
Is where do you think he huds the mos
" h,rrsu psrt-the empty place.-ot tn
as skyP 10 the north, precisely Whei
or lob told Bildad, the Shuhite, the emps
lal nlace was stretched out. 1t 10 ther
he there comets most delight 10 roam
and hide themselves IN emptiness.
II pass BY the history OF creation a.
;s written on the tablet OF the rock an
in the Book Of Revelations, because II
question tas been discussed 90 muc
"a and 90 often, that you are no dou
1r- familiar with the whole subject.
sr. both the order OF creation is the sam
Ian First. the plants to afford sustsnanc
in nd then the animals. The chiei poi
II of aoparent difference being a. to Il
ca. duration OF the period between Il
lsD evening and morui9g" "a 'h01la1
ere, ,e.rs are as one day aud the Moss
the account affords evidences itself that q
,or. term day, as there used, ia not tb
de- which comprehends our twenty-to
putI bour. I, wss day that bad it's eve
ing and mOfaiDg before the sun "
made. ;.