, 1879-03-02
,m,o Church Must Not Leave
the World She Is COM
nlissioned to Evan
gelize.
An Interesting Sketch of the
Shaker Community at
Warrensviue, 0.
The Rules, Regulations, and Prac-
tees Of a Society OF
Celibates.

General Notes--Personals--
Sabbath Sn1iles--Serv- "
ices To-Day.
ATHEISM AND THE CHURCH.
-. psy. G. II. cURTE1s IN "poPuLAR SCI
1AA EEcE-''
o,,r;a e1cunt in-Theologiam Everything
,.srcs into theology. No branch OF science ap-
S..rs N consider itself complete, nowadays,
.n,;, # h.s issued at last into the vcxed ocean
~ ,bao1or7. Thus, Biology writes "Lay Ser
o,onzn in Prof.. Huxley; Physics acknowledges
.txslf almost Christian in Prof. Tyudall; An
.h,onotony claims to be religious in Mr.. OAR
,rio. and Logic, in Mr.. Spencer, contesscs that
u, religious system is normal and
essential factor in every evolving soclety'
II is on1y the second-rate men Of science who
1oudly yaunt their ability to do without religion
aitoectaer, and proclaim their fixed and un-
chaneeable resolve for its entire suppresslon'
AsFell resolve to suppress the Gulf Stream OF
tbe .cccntrlcity Of the eaTth's orbit! II the
horizoo Of mans thought is bounded on all
sides BIZ mystery, it is in simple obedience to
the law of Ills nature that he gives some shape
to that mystery. It we're mental cowardice to
shrink from facing it; It were positive lmoecll1-
II to declare that the coasI-line between known
and unknown had NO shape at all. Granted that
the line be q slowly -1uctuating one, and that
cououests here and losses there reveal them-
selves iu course Of time, and one day become
as,uking'' to the commonest observer, does
that fact acuuit of folly the Aguostic statement
that. now and here, there is no thinkable line at
a1t. no features to be described, nothing to
sketch. no appreciablc curves and headlands, no
conception possible which shall iutegrate Qor
practical utility that great Beyond whose
boundaries, on the hither side at least, nrc
known to usa Men who can only attend to one
thing at time, and whose *'onc thing" is the
field OF 3 microscope or "the anatomv o. ue
lover part OF the llindmost bone OF the skui' OF
scarp,'' may perhaps escape the common 4ot oi
manhood BY ceasing to be ''nep," IN any
ordinary sense of the word. But, Tor people
vho lire IN the open air and sunshi,e or common
lie. there is tic same necessity Ior rehg7on as
there is fo1 that menta1 map Of our whereabouts
that ne all carry with us III our oralns.
Let any one recall his sensations when be has
It any lime been oycrtaken in fog or z snow
storm. and when all his bearings have been
blottcdout then he will readily understand the
.sa a ha a. .l1 onnreriate hot te oldechool
Ina' uno o,t US 4hor ]har s,id that tTheo1ogy
+lso n,,aon nd mistress of The sciences,
hsr,nnni1ng o an natherin~ IN into architectonic
na!no11as anu 3hrppade that the s,1lS
ordinate sciences had spun.
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