, 1876-12-24
R(lST'0N.
The Chestnut Street Club.
One Of the Scientific Lights Eolds
Forth on Evolution.
Tho Opposition Force at fremont TEN.
pie on the Same Morning.
The Moody and Sankey TabeEnaelt..-LirelJ Times
;: :EIpected.-.RtWeen Three Fires.

hoec8dt Correspondence Or 7h6 7Tdttn1.
Boston, Dec. 21.-The monthly meeting of
the Chestnut Street Club took .p1ace at Mrs
| Sargent's on an. earliex Monday than has been
customary lately, owing to the holiday season.
| The scientific, wave seems on the increase, aud
Prof. Hyatt in the chair reading an essay on
Evolution, and demonstrating it By blackboard
diagrams, was curious contrast to some OF the
purely literary and theological papers that wero
the feature of last year. The Club could scarcely
| be sncered at now BY the practical Gradgrinds a.
"transcendentat ~; for. even the Grad
grinds know enough not to dispute sdcn:
ti6c marycls. It i doubtful, however, It
! the majority of the rank aud file Of listeners
if I may be allowed this very expressive term IL
application to this very select audlencc-win en-
| JOY the scientific name as we'll as the literary or
| theological. To few people comparatively Is it
| given to understand enough Of the science OF
evolution to enjoy hearing ascientidc exposition
| Of the gradual growth and progress Of all tha
earliest forms Of life up to the present. There
| are good many men and women who go and
listen to such things with any amount OF Wis
dom in their faces, and with very little
amount OF interest or understanding behind
| their faces But, to do
THE cHEsTNuT c1uBBERs
justice think there are fewer such listeners than
on many other occasions, at least amongst tbs
| men listeners, for men don't come out In tho
heart Of the morning to such club as this
simply to follow crowd, or to see their fellows,
or for any other than real individual interest.
| Women have plenty Of time usually-that is,
| the women who frequent c1ubs--to 20 for au
| the mixed reasons of social following. But
| maintain that the scientific wave pur siupA
is not so attractive to the generally cultivated
| listener as the union OF science and philosophy
such as Mr. Weiss or Mr.. WATSON gives Us
Prof. Hyatt very naturally began By stating tht
t principle Of Darwinism,-the recognition Of
progress In the animal kingdom from the lowest
| to the highest. And he stated the fact thai
there WAS belief In evolution long before Darwin
But the survival OF the tttest by.
| pothess was introduced by Darwin. Prof.
| Hyatt declared that he did not agree with Hu1-
| been mathematically demonstrated, though
| there was extreme probability in the proof
| After this opening, the Professor showed =
specimen OF the nautilus as existing at present,
| and explained the internal structure with
BLACKBOARD sKETCHEs-
| He also passed around . fossil nautilus b.
longing to one Of the middle geological periods,
| and another Of still older period, III which
| From this, step by step, the theory is carried
| on until, through all coils, VIC get Strengthened
out at last. Prof.. HyaIt's theury. is
that . rae may produce any kind hnd
alter the race type which Il had Inherited, and
! tho race must die when it has lived long enough
to carry the adult characteristics into the egg,
and cnbody the race types: Tue straight form
| in ,Agassiz's theory Of embryoloey, which he
also believes superior to Darw1n's theory OF
| natural selection.
There was q discussion, or talk, afterwards,
| In which
MR. wAssoN. AND DE- BARToL,
| and Mr- Cranch, asked questions Mr. Wasson
asked where the lowest form Of life ORIGINATED,
| and the answer that. when VIC can prove and
trace the differentiation Of species By each step,
COMPLETE reply. Very modestiy, like most true
scientific followers, Prot. Hyatt took the ground
that, though in the present state Of knowledge
any other theory than evolution is untenable,
that, in farther progress. different conclusions
u.ay be reached.
Ii is little curious that while the evolution
lists were thus having hearing, and the very SCI
ence OF naterialism up to its latest develop
ment being stated the apostle OF spiritual 1a1th4
| Monday meetings in fremont Temple. AZ one
| Of the religious newspapers recently said, Mr..
| Cook has the title Of Rev. only By courtesy. -
| he was never ordained. He was educated, {
invited to preach for q Congregationa1ist Church
| at Lynn. He accepted; but the visiting duties,
| the friendly tea-drinkings etc, which ten and
| fifteen years ago, even more than now, were
| part and parcel Of PASTORS obligations
WENT AGAINST THE GRAIN
! Of this young disciple, and he at length threw
up the pastorate and went abroad to study.
| Theology, and not social life, was his foremost
be spent in Europe he made himself familiar
with all the modern German theology and philos-
| ophy When he came back to New England
year or so ago he began to give course Of lee
lures under the auspices Of the Young Mems
| Monday morning, and though I have never
beard whisper to the effect, strongly suspect
that they were set on Mondays at midday as q
little counteracting effect to the liberal not to
say radical 'thereses " OF the Monday Chestnut
street club-mectings, for they take place al
| most at the same time, and are IN spirit and
matter from the beginning directed entirely to
the proafng Of spiritual law and force against
material law and forre.
HE HATES WITH CORDIAL HATRED
the liberalism which is setting up science as the
only law and gospel, the science that Is, that
| denies Christianity. He maintains that science
| and the Bible are In complete harmony. ;"
biblical, and because am biblical am scicntn-
ic"' One thing is shown In the fact Of the in
creasing crowds that flock to hear him on these
Monday mornings, and that is the -deep-rooted
spiritual nature-the soul-that the scientific
| investigations have undertaken to rout, pTored
| as in entire harmony with sgience itself. Tyn-
dali himself admitted that he broughsup against
iuexpliable mystery at the end OF bis tnvcstiga~
tions; that be nor no other human being cou.a
account for the first germ OF life. Prof: Mo7se
| onlv follows this whcu he states with much
| modesty that there may be different con-
| cusions reached in advancing thought;
| vet Ill the same the tendency Ut
scientific investigation is not favorable
to spiritual filth; and it certainly Is matter Of
| rejoicing IL Mr.. Cook can bring his culture to
! bear upon the unfalth OF to-day, and show
| that the scientists further conclusions " arc
| even now treading upon
THE BORDER LAND or rxMoRTALITT.
| But lie won't do it by assailing the liberalism
be hates In = disrespectful manner. It is the
.s}ibera1ists," rea1iy,-that il, the skeptical s
he means bY the 1iberalists, whom be should
want to reach before any others But by, tle
course Of attack, he will only repulse them,
| and add another to the rank Of the " Rev Or
| thodox Bible Dangers" who please their own
| followers and nobody else. And with bis
| earnestness, his great powers, 1ir: Cook should
be able to do the greatest of al things that Is
left to be done at this day: quicken the spirit
ual minds Of his so-called "llberni" brethren,
SO that they may get into the labit OF looking
| for and not overlooking the spiritual germ
In their following Of science. But IS the matter
| .n,,r sc'4 To1k ia fhonon really the aen.