New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-20
THE MISTAKE OF SCIENTIFIC MEN.

THEIR ATTENTION TO THE LOWEST FIELD OF SCI
ENCE-THE UNIVERSE OF MORALs-TIiEiR DE-
SPAIR.
10 the Edttor Of the Tribune.
SIR: The most plausible opposcrs OF the
truth al the present time few among the class
called scientists men whose assertions, account of
their learning certain branches of science attract at
tcnriou The man who is honestly and ahoIlousy seek
ing for knowledge, hut is working in wrong direction
is an object Of pity; and much more 80 when hnding
himself shut in by RED sandstone or lost in the nist OF
the nebue he begins to and calls his gGoses sci
cnce They speak of evolution from the cells of mole
cle as from an egg. if the produces the hen with
out hen produce the They see law controlling
matter ignore the fact that where there Is law
there must be "A lawmakcr. Poor orphans! without
father they try in vain to resign themselves to dark III
tuge horrible. because uncertain and without hope Inc
mistake Of some OF the prominent scientists at the
present time is that they giving their whole atten
Z on TO The very lowest field of science that H. matter
They should consider that there j. higher universe than
that o. matter There a universe OF mimi when mas
lis laws ana It's powers Of evolution and reproduction,
aud which controls nature or matter, AID can control
and make use Of erayation magnetism, electricity,
and an the other powers OF matter. And then again.
there is another universe higher than those Of matter
and mind and that is the universe Of mlsals, which
has its laws and Its powers OF reprOdutuon'
hatred beyettng hatred and love bcgettng love- THIS
The highest study for tins that controls the mind
learn about God tle Creator OF the heavens and The
earth In Ills greater light the invisible things OF Him
from o CREATION OF the world clearly seen, being
understood by the Things that made, ever Ills eternal
power and Godhead. Rom. l., 20.
The state Of mind 10 which some OF these scientists
come ia the course of their stables il sad IN the extreme
Their utt,rnces sound like the desparng wall OF the
lost Read Mr PrUcgOrs letter h. THE TRIBUNE.
Prof Proctors statement is akin TO the horrible utter
ances Of the celebrated Strauss IN III, last published worl,
before his DEATH before he took the icrfucap INTO tLc
bacI.ness Of darkness forever" lie says:
In the enormous machine OF the universe, amid the
iIecss Mt Ir lad Hiss of It's Jagged mon wheels dId
tl- -afci crash of its pO.trtuu> stamps and hammers
tle midst Of this terrific comnOOn. man. helpless
and detcuseless creature, finds himself placcd-nOt
.uardad motion, wheel may not seize
grud him. "a hammer crush ljim 10 power lbs
sense OF Abandonment is 81 FIRST something awful"
ia view OF such fearful teachings wc may well take the
warning which Paul gave 20 Timothy: keep that which
g., committed 10 thy trust, avoiding pf0fanc ara vain
aubiugs and oppOsiUous science falsely called
f. Tm Vi, p. Thanks be unto God, who in The begin
uiuz created the heavens and the earth LAS not
been abandoned % he seized aud by Jagged
iron wheel or crushed to powder by hammer" " For
God so loved the world That lie gave His only besoteE
SON. that whatsoever becycth in HIM should perish,
lut have everlasting life" How mach better 1t is 10
listen to the "gOod tdHgs Of great 10y" than to follow
these men cropping H. the dark without God ana without
hope in the world. B. b. 81
Neic- York, Nov. 10, 1870