New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-11

THE PCLPIT'S RELATIONS TO SCIENCE.
The Rer John Wes at Cnifaran cAurc Broakya
The Rev. John Weiss preached in the Second
Unitarian Church. at Clinton and COngress-ss Brook
lyn, yesterday morning taking notes from the scril
lures, but entering INTO the relations or religion AMI
science and !arraguing the pulpit FOR It's ukewarm
III efforts TO unite the two.
The conditions OF modern intelligence. said he So
changed from those of any previous period which
sentiment OF religion has dwet tAat is obliged to
a new departure. There such extent Of
mental activity and there many objects
furnished 70 keep II continually stimulated. Cheap
publications. Of every Kind spread tle moods Of he
period far and wide. Their through all the
speculative FORMS 70 al tue tnotlous OF Hucu ue so
capable The richness or material is cause OF
distraction, for the mind grows embarrassed 49, 80 many
departments wide Iher doors 10 display
their collections and there IS no statement TOO sceutn;
discced, canned. IL Were Tor the Use or
emigTant travellers II is PUT mp IN neat packages Ike
national yeast powder, aud left at every door Inc
trouble that people wiki little knowledge get TOO
strong dOse'o It, People troubled with imperfect nutr-
ton snatch at "a railway station Rulp Of the latest
ideas - the spectrum analysis, pnmeVal mah'
the correlation OF fOrcs spontaneous gen
GRAFTON, social statistics, materiaiism, Darwinan
views, Huxleys prooplism ana the last message w1cL
spIruaistc friends received by new magic express
from the Summer land. Mr.. Dickens showed up one VI
the EngliSh stations where an lndgestiDc meal eond
be procured for money This meal or information beats
hollow anything that the American stomach suffers
from in the shape OF food Westward the OF empire
runs and reads The scientific mind Is making the whole
the hearers there Is no distinction OF person or sect
IL Is all wonderful that religion hLds herself III
In this assembly or notions, especially when she
invited SIT the pauDers gallery as Tar az possible
from the stage The air Is not good where she sta
up there she 10 motion converted
heat and back again. the lines OF Orions atnOs-
phere described. chronology Knocked away from under
Adams feet the cerebral and nervous system hunted
down to within an inch OF iIs lfe The experimeuter Is
ast0Dshed u nd her there at all but he explains her
away though 10 be present, and she listens
while he tells his audience that she OF poly wog
when mas neglected shed lte tall here she Is
useless and obsolete appendage OF the human mind.
All these new facts ana all the latest cOulecture6
penetrate into the solemn presence or our primitive
beliefs TICrs are great numbers OF clean, nOnest men
In America 10 whom the phrase Invisible world" has
universe occupied vita the functions OF aud hat
whatever these cannot account Tor must be superuous
ana fantastical A great many men are disposed LO
derive the al law irOm the combinations OF birth aud
pHysca organization, aud 10 reduce accountability to
table u stascs wbch exhibits the occurrences OF vice
aud virtue independently OF human wlll by physical
Laws Of their own. Then, again. there ara
great many men aud more women
Of personal continuance after the bodily functions
exhausted Iney cannot even suppose that the ee
mental IN De transformed back into force
again. They conclude that all moods nothing
strainIng OF the D0dJ's loash outward toward some
depth ~ Overtake some funnent is nothing after al
but surplus OF health aud good condition, souIe
~ the very Opp0ste-bad h-ath aud morbid disposl
Beauty Honor, Love- DutyAre only Cinderellas AT the
bail. When midnight strikes tney shrink away ~
RAJ and In ashrs. 10 may De that
these Cnderellas drop behiud them, tbsy escape.
not heshly foot. People who are profoundly ma
teriallsc aud atholstc may have general health and
cleanliness which preserve them Ia moral relations
With socisu. Aad sccars many . aosis sctisa kow