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1he1ntdGasaeer.
ALLLTFE CONDITIONALLY IN.
MORTAL.
Paper read before the American
Scientific Association.

Scientific Association.
The following paper was read by Mr..
William Bross, Of Chicago, before the
American Association for the Advance.
ment Of Science, at Nashville, Tenn, on
Wednesday evening, Aug. 90:
Epochs in scientific discussion, a. in
all e.e, may often be distinctly observed.
LED by the varied and immense research.
9, and the profound reasoning Of Darwin,
the scientific world has, for several years,
devoted It's energies largely to seeking
lor the origin OF life, and in searching for
facts to prove the trAnsmuiation OF ape.
cies. In the long cycle Of ages it is claim.
ed that the higher forms Of lie have been
developed from the lower, and theseirom
protoplAm, or what virtually amounts
to spontaneous generation. Whatever
opinions may be held as to the right or
the wrong OF the conclusions reached, it
cannot be doubted that the sum ofhuman
knowledge will be largely increased by
these discussions, and the facts and dis
coyeries on which they are based, and
whatever truth may be developed, will
prove blessing to the race. Thus far,
4, least in the minds Of large class of
the Students Of Nature, no safe ground
has been reached; and they say, as in the
report Of the Scotch jury
mot PROVED"
and ALI back upon the sublime conclu.
sion, God made the world and all things
therein. Hegiveth to all life, and breath,
aai all things"
This comprehensive statement OF ST.
Paul does not agree with the opinions Of
Prof. Tyndall and many other leading
scientists Of this age. And ye. Tyndsll
does not directly contradict it. He sim.
ply says he does not know how matter
came TO have the power OF equalization,
and how the principle Of life came TO be
developed. To Use his own language,
in his introduction to the " Fragments OF
Science" he says; "How matter came to
have this power, is question on which
never yentured an opinion" "Theo-
ries Of evolution 10 but short way to-
ward. the explanation OF this mystery"
Half leSp airingly he adds: "When at
tempt 70 give the Power which see man
Tested 10 the Universe an objective form,
personal or otherwise, it slips away from
me, declining all intellectual manipuIA.
ton. Idare not, save POLITICALLY, use the
PronOun He regarding it; l dare not
call i! Mind ! refuse to call it even
a Cause lts mystery overshadOws
NE, butit remains a mystery; while the
objective forms which my neighbors try
to make it Fl: simply distract and desc
crate it,
When scientists refuse TO attribute
the phenomena Of Mature! and the laws
which govern them 10 u Great First
Cause,-ii you please to the power and
the wisdom Of
A PERSONAL GOD
they seldom agree among themselves in
the principles they enunciate, and in the
conclusions at which they arrive. While
Darwin. Huxley, and others strongly de-
itni the theories OF evolution. Tyndall
ieclares, "they go but short way to-
ward. explaining the mysteries OF Ma.
iUre; and, in his most interesting and
able lecture the Glasgow Science Associ.
Mion, published in the FOrtaightiy Re.
sisS Of November l, 1876, he seems to dc.
nypositively the truth Of the doctrine.
Speaking Of Bscteria,-the minute mic.
roscoplc agents OF putreinction,-he says:
Il would be simply moustrouS to affirm
hat these swarming crops Of Bacteria
l'e spontaneously generated. Is there
then, no experimental proof Of Spontan.
-oul generation? | answer without hes.
latiOn, nome" And again he says: "L,t
not the conclusion lay hold on you, that
living thing ia easily generated because
it's small. Both the Yeast.Plans and
tue Barley-Plant lose themselves in the
iim twilight OF antiquity, and in this our
ia? there is no more proof Of the spon.
taneors generation OF the one than there
soi the spontaneous generation OF the
other OF course the great materials.
nc philosopher refers the origin Of their
NE Aud it might az we'll be added Of all
Iic,to that mysterious Power which
oTef'hNdows him., and yet, to the phil.
''ophcr, that Power, in all His wondrous
workings, reHNins
ASIMPESETRABLE MYSTERY.
Nov, AZ to the evolution OF one species
from another, even among those minute
microscopic plants that the most power
iis Instruments can alone reveal 10 hu.
nta Snowlelge, he makes this compre-
AeHHTe statement: Where isolation OF a
particular organism has been Only aiTec-
ie! grove and multiplieS indefinitely;
nut 10 change Of itinto another organism
''eroT observed. 10 Pastour'A Fesear-
chez, the Ricterium remained BAG.
,,eium, the Vibrio Vibrio, the
reHeciiiCm Pcnecilium, and the
IofGlA NTornla. Sow any OF these
"a ,ta,e Of purity in an Appro-
Pirate ltquid,-you got it, and it alone in
he 'Ub.rQueut crop. In like manner, SOW
snail PoG in the human body, and your
crop i- Small Pox. Sow there ScArlatina
>9r Typhoid virus, your crop is TY
PAoldi Cholera, your cropis Cholera
Ahd'0 Science, as exPounded by Prof
IyndaIl, proves
THE TRUTH OF THAT SCRIPTURE,
iyaFful in its warnings as applie
here to morals, Whatsoever man SO v
eth, that shall he also reap" Does no
The accuracy OF that old scientist receiy,
here most wonderful confirmation, who
Oearly $500 years before the microscop,
SW discovered wrote: God said, Let ii,
earth bring forth herb, and the ttuit.trel
Welding fruit after his kind, whose see,
Gin itselF; and, generally all lie In TIL
All, earth, and sea, after his kind? |
'IloO much to believe that inspiration
alone could have guided Moses in a state
aen' which Science now, with It's mos
PoEesiul microscopes, shows to DO cor
rect even in the minuteSt forms OF llieI
50 tsr, therefore, as the principles 0
F'ot. Tyudall can DO inferred from III
44oIations above given, he does not be
''rVe in the trAnsmutGtion Of species, and
to the origin OF life, It is to him all
4!y-ts'y. But, mysterious and wonderful
ny Is, the generalization Is here ventur
ID that, il the conditions on which AMI
nal aud vegetable lifn Ia nrodunad an,