National Republican., 1875-06-17
THE FORCES OF NATURE.
Interesting Lecture By Dr.. C. Q. Wei

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q. S. Webb, B.P. Id, delivered . very inter-
esting and able lecture last evening at the Thir-
teenth Street Baptist church, and one that de-
served . much larger audience than It received.
His subject was 1.-THE Forces Of Mature" and he
aimed to combat the idea that science conflicts
with religion. In dealing with scientific topics
terms, 90 that his discourse was perfectly intelli-
Rible TO all Of his hearers.
He introduced his remarks by IN allusion to the
conversion Of Gslen, who became convinced Of the
existence Of higher being BY the discovery and
examination Of human skeleton.
Force he defined a. cause-something that
seen, or that had weight. Not only the planets,
but the smallest insects, were portions Of matter.
THE PRINCIPAL FORCES
with which we would deal were graVitatIon, the
molecular forces, cohesion, elasticity and cheul.
forces of heat and electricity, and the so-called
vital forces. Forces were stored up and loosened
islI % expended the force that had BEEN Tor ionE
time pent up within IT: The steam-engine that
stood motioness, with its immense forces at rest,
he said, had taught men to make these forces
subserVisnt to their needs When GslvRni made
the frogs legs tWitch no one thought that eighty
These forces already existed In nature. Man
could not create or destroy matter; he could not
create or destroy force. The amount Of force
only was changed. The sun took up moisture
which was eventually poured into brooks and
they wound their watches the muscular fore. S sI-
pended was stored up In the spring and ran the
watch. Physical fofess were in this way
CONTINUALLY CHANGING
their form. The heat Of the body was the result
Some kinds Of food produced more heat than
others, and enabled the body to do more work.
Fatty food was for this reason consumed In large
been advanced that albuminous food stored up
fierce that could be dealt out ct slow rate while
the fatty foods pEoduced force that could be ex-
pended quickly. The lsopard that existed upon
fstty food would be tired out By the deer IN .
long chase, but the leopard exhibited bursts Of
speed and expended at once the force stored IN
warm, but we're z W warm SscSass tSsy panied ante In IN
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compounds, vegetable ale and animal life. It
was but step nom enc TO the next higher. Whit
lumed the chemical force, which was then taken
up By the animal, and eventually, when the ami
nal died, returned toIts elementary character.
Some made use OF these r..
SCIENTIFIC TRUTHs
n battering ram against religien, assuming that
there was no difference between physical and
, vital phenomena. Man could make no eo1triT-
anee for converting physical into vital force.
"tIon. They could not change Dead matter into
living matter. A sculptor earYed from one block
rose, unQ IfOm tnOtner tulip, DuL ne ma IN
his mind Q conception. So In nature all organic
forms we're CONTRACTED upon some conception or
plan. Everything was created 10 serve useful
purposes. Science was not Inconsistent with the
Bible. II vas sad that Yny O1s snould sdvance
such doctrine, and many should follow who
knew not what TO think or NhltheT they were
geing. Many Of the most eminent scientific men,
among theln AgazSlz and Faradsy, had consid-
cred science as bet the demonstration Of higher
power. s.afrEl 100 THsl
Rad saks & Co.'S item, headed Especial