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est poem. and a fact equally difficult to reduce

they were q question of to-day. But the proba-
bility OF miracles depends on the need and oc-
cason. The evidence is question for the wit
nesses If divine revelation is to be anthem
ticate1 then miracles are not improbable
They are ''letters of introduction" They have
done their work. Now We accept Christianity
on experience and on its known character Nor,
indeed is it anything more improbable that
God should move among His laws to answer
some spiritual need, than that the will of man
should act among lower laws in manner not
unlike but slower IN result. In fact, every inn
prove-ment in the arts of life and Civilizations
slow miracle.
We see the same spirit in political philoso-
ply. Mr.. Bagehot has recently treated poll
ties from the point of view of physics, and has
brought out the verified facts which cons.i-
tute human progress. 1t may vet be that we
can define civilization. The main trouble is
and is one which destroys the value of much of
their argument-that the political econom-
lists regard man as placed here to do the most
work he can, for0society, forgetting that society
and the state and the church itself exists for
the man; that thus protected he may gain most
mastery over the brute forces of nature and
rise to his truest life.
But how is it with our science? Has it not
mastered the situation? We had hoped now at
last for pos tive and tangible resuts-some-
thing like specie basis for these high transac-
tons But we find the old uncertainty, the old
despair. The real questions of the soul remain
unanswered. Mind and matter are reduced to
IL CO-eIerUdl DrOtneTnOOu. he VaHulty ol
| Wedge is denied, and nowhere is there any
| proof of a God the heart of man can love,or the
| mind know. The argument strictly within. its
| limits, seems correct.
| The results were well enough regarded 10
| their own line But it has attempted to con-
| clude too much from them. All the testimony
| you can get out of matter and force, proves
nothing as to mind and spirit. Nor does it
| prove anything as to cause These belong to
another domain, yet one that is in harmony
,xith moi ft,r hot ind
from her narrow starting point, aid in her rig
id way, has science proved? That she finds no
absolute knowledge, no spirit, no cause, no God.
And she is ght,-Right, that is, in her argu-
ment and the validity OF Its conclusion as a
form of logic.
For the truth is, Nature does not teach these
things directly. She does not reveal God, for
she does not contain Him. The face of God
first seen can then be seen milrored in nature,
but not before. 1.-THE invisible things of Him
which are clearly seen in the things that are
made, are his eternal power and God-head-
that is His supremacy-just what the apostle
said and nothing more. The rest of His char
acter,-that which commands our trust and
love and worship-is disclosed by higher reveIa-
ton.
We need not therefore reject the teachings of
science, but restrict them to their limits, accept
her verified facts and interpret them in broader
light. We need not rebuke the scientific spirit,
bat should understand it and not let it traverse
other and higher fields with its laws. She cal
trace deaths but not life.
To balance and harmonic the thought of the
age We should keep up the spiritual side of the
great question. We should study man. mind,
mental philosophy, 1t is in disfavor, perhaps,
for the reason already given. But we need it
now for all reasons, We think we can find
through it absolute knowledge, a compreben-
sible law, sufficient cause, a personality for
man and for God, and an Interpretation of the
universe which will treat all things according
to their natures and yet preserve the unity and
browning end of ALL
There are three revelations of truth accessible
to the mind. First and remotest the reflex ton
of God in nature Next above, His reflection
in the soul of man. Highest the personal rev.
| citation of Himself The last was indispensable.
The need OF 1t was the deepest fact in man, and
| it was that this revelation had first to teach
| Starting from this completed revelation ma n
may construct science, philosophy, a the
| ology, which are the three angles in that
mystic figure that symbolizes consummate
| truth, consummate knowledge and consummate
| being.
Christanity-Christt the Savor-is thus the
master key of philosophy. Here are answered
! all the yearning questions of the soul. Com
! pare the desparing tone of the old testament
| with the triumph of the new. Compare Solo
| mon and Paul. One, King in highest SPLEEN
| dor, died wretched slave; the other. the least
of the servants of Jesus Christ, died con-
| queror of the world. This is a true phloso-
! phy.
The spiritual revelation is also the master
| key of science. Even nature could not be I'M
derstood. before. The yelled mysteries of all
human creeds confess this despair. So did the
veil of the Jewish Tabernacle symbolic the
mysterious order of the creation hid from NOR
| tai man. But when the great revelation was
complete, the spirit of Love broke through all
vells. Thenceforward all mystery was made
| known This was the reach of that glorious
| gospel the apostles so loved to magnify This
| is the reconciliation of God and his universe
| tC lee.
ton.
Let us then, while we study facts and accept
| only facts, recognize the highest. Let us cher
ish that in us which is spiritual Hold inward
truths-poetry which sees the soul of things
the ideal, the perfect of thought and aspiration.
| The weak will follows the infinite wish, though
| affair." Above all, recognize the deepest fact,
mans need of God. We must come to this
to be willing to be taught-willing to be saved.
| All history is full of the pitiable fate of those
WHO would be self-saviors, So have been
wrecked the highest intelects: so did the
| brightest angel fall. Accept the revelations,
and grieve not the spirit of saving truth. Count
| it not weakness to acknowledge this; and to
guide life and thought by this ennobling tru St
that obedience which is truest freedom, is
that living Will which is highest law.
The following is the Neurology as prepared
by Prof A. S. Packard
1s11-Asa Redngton; born Vassaboro, July H.
1883; died Lewiston, June 6, 1874 act So.
|
March 10, 1887; Kennebunk. Sept. 3d. 1873, act 49,
| 1S17-James Mexican: Beverley, Mass, Nov. 7,
1872 d Topsham, Nov Is, 1874, act 76 ,ooo.
1S17-John Widgery; b Portland, June II, 1902;
d Portland, Aug. 2, 1913, aet T.
| Is, 1897: Milton Mills, n. T.. Nov 6, 1873 let 76.
| 1s23-Charles Shaw Adams; Bath. May 81,
1884,; d Hillside; Mich, July 20, 1873, act IS;
1S23-Joseph Dove; b Durham, N H.; d s. Nat
| ick Mass May IL, 1878, act II.
| 1s27-John Parker Hale; Rochester, N. H..
March. 1906; Dover, N. H., July %. 1873, act 81.
| 1897 Richard WOodhul%. Fairfald
| Is. 1902; Bangor, Nov. IL, 1873, act 70.
| 1S29-John Usher Parsons; b Parsonsfeld, Nov.
1, 1906; d Wellesley, Mass, May q, 1874, act 81.
1905; d Austin, Texas, Oct. %, 1873, aet g.
1840-Jobn Appleton Cleave.and; Brunswick
March 30, 1885, d Newton Corner, Mass, Nov. 8,
| 1873, act 30.
is42-John Craig Clark; b Portsmouth. N. H..
May 6, 1878; d Mont Clair, N. j., Sept. 16, 1873,
| act 55
1s43--Edmund Pearson; Kennebunk, July 1,
1922; Vienna, Austria, July 5, 1873. act 81
1892; d ashington, D. G, May 25, 1874, act ~.
1854 James Francis Miller; Hollis Oct. 49, 1882
| Portland, Dec. ~, 1873, act A.
lS5s-Samuel Aver Bradley; b Fryebhrg, Nov. OF,
| 1886; Chicago Ill., June 1874, act SO.
1S59-BeDjamin Franklin Manwel*; b N. Jay,
| Feb. IS, 1882; LAWYER Iowa. Feb. 81 1874, act AZ
1S6o-David Hale: b Bridgton, March IT, 1887; d
| Bridgton, Dec. IT, 1873, act 36.
| 1s63-George Manlius Pease; Bridgton, Dec Is,
ISL Brighton, Dec. Is, 1873 act 81.
1S69-Leavitt Lothrop; Lisbon, June H. 1S4S; d
New Orleans, Sept. 26, 1873, act 25
| 1s69-Wiliard Humphrey Perley: Portland, Oct.
IL, 1913; lost on Lake Huron Sept. 49, 1873 act 25
| NOT BEFORE REPORTED.
1sis-Adino James Burbank; b Gead July %.
1921; Schaght;c Ike N. Y. March p, 1878, act 80.
Is S-JOseph Christmas Ives; New York, Dec.
rs. 1928; d New York, Nov. r. 1869, act A.
is5s-Aibert Jewett; Alma, Aug. 0. 1888; 1861,