The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1882-12-05
WHAT is BACK OF THE SEEN.

preached by Mr.. Cruzan on Sunday
night:
The man WHO earnestly loves
truth seeks it from every source.
Whoever is afraid of scientific truth
does not believe in God. We speak
of two Testaments given MS of God,
hut there are four: The Oldest, the
Old, the New, and the Newest. The
Old and the New are written. The
Oldest and the Newest are uhwrit-
ten. The Oldest tells us how the
Seen came to be. The Newest con-
tinues the record of Gods dealings
with man since the sacred canon
closed. The Oldest Testament is
lust as authoritative as the Old or
the New. All history is sac:ed
ground.
How did the Seen come to be?
We must go, not to the Old, but to
the Oldest Testament for the an.
swer. Science, reading its pages
backward, leads lis to the point
where we stand upon the glowing
crystals of ncwly-formed world-a
world without any form of life. But
this is only few of the first chap
.ters in this Oldest Testament.
Chemical Science takes these glow
ing crystals on which we stand, and
reduces them to their original atoms
they become liquid mass.
Science tells us that this was the
primal condition of the Universe;
that out of this the Seen came to be.
Standing there, looking out upon
this liquid mass of atoms, we ask,
''How did the Seen come to beE"
Science is ready with her answer:
She says that each atom floating
there at our feet, is the home of cer-
tain definite forces, which will un-
erringly, and without shadow of
variation, determine its alliances,
and necessitate its combinations for
ever; that these atoms combined
and re-combined through countless
ages, and thus at last, the Seen
came to be. We accept the fact of
matter and its inherent forces, but
we ask Science, "Whence came
matter? Who clothed it with these
wonderful forces? Who guided and
directed them so that they combined
and re- combined upon plan, at last
produced this Seen, this Universe of
ineffable skill and beauty?" So far
from accounting for the Seen, they
are an included part of it, which
needs to be accounted for. They
are O cause of the Seen, but not The
cause-that lies back of them, con-
trolling, guiding, and working them
on an intelligent plan.
Listen to what Science tells you
Of life, if you would have an apt
illustration of the absolute necessity
for a guiding intelligence back of
these natural forces. All living
organisms consist of three parts:
nutrient matter, germinal matter or
bioplasm, and formed matter or
tissue. Only one-ffth is really
alive, the bioplasm. "All life is
from bioplasm," has been the teach
ing of Science since 1860.
Put living tissue under the strongest
microscope: You will see little
cells, and within them transparent,
colorless, glue-like, apparently struc-
tureless substance. That is bio
plast. Under all the tests known to
science it is the same in the animal,
the plant, the sponge, and the
brain. Into every cell there flows q
stream of dead, nutrient matter; the
bioplast seizes upon it, and by a
process of which science knows
nothing, and cannot initiate, con-
verts it into living matter, and pours
it out Of the cell. This little color
less, vital thing in the cell, is the
sole means by which every kind OF
living thing is made, has been made,
or will be made. The bioplast has
the power of motion; the power. OF
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. offnew bio
p!asts, and each has the same powers
as the original. They are tireless
workers. Each has its own work
and will do no other. One weaves
nerve, another muscle, another bone
but by no force, or process can
the muscle-weaving bioplast be made
to weave bone, or nerve-and yet,
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