The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-28

contributions of the people fol
such purpose. 1t is said that
the rector's party have laid in
coal enough to last for some
weeks if the mercury goes to
fifty degrees below zero. But as the
obStructionists have caused the gas
meter to be removed it is possible that
the followers of the Evangelists who
meet for evening worship may have
to look at their prayer-books and listen
to their pastors sermon by the light
of old-fashioned dips or dangerous
kerosene.
This is the way in which the bishop
of Santander, Spain, denounces the
newspapers which favor civil and re-
lgious liberty in that country: May
Almighty God curse these journals
with the perpetual malediction
launched against the devil and his an
gels! May they perish with Nero,
Julian and Apostate, and Judas, the
traitori May the Lord judge them as
He judged Dathan and Abiram! May
the earth swallow them up alive! Let
them be cursed day and night, sleep
ing and waking, in eating, in drinking
and in playing, when they speak and
when they keep silence! May their
their eyes be blinded, their ears deaf,
their tongues dumb! Cursed be every
member of their body. Let them be
cursed from to-day and forever! May
their sepulchre be that of dogs and
asses! May famished wolves prey
upon their corpses, and may their
eternal company be that of the devil
and his angelsr' 1t is to be remem-
bered that this gentle bishop is the
follower of Him who uttered the
words, BLESS and curse not" AS a
specimen of murderous hate, bitter
malignity and worse than pagan bru-
tality, this creed of a successor of the
apostles is probably unequaled.
The Boston Herald of last Sunday
has the following to say about the re-
lations between science and religion:
More and more we are finding out the
fact that nature does not need to be
supplemented by what has been called
the supernatural. Nature is fathom-
less, Infinite mystery, into which the
greatest minds could penetrate for
ever without the possibility of touch
ing bottom or reaching those flaming
walls of which her old poet and min
strel sung so eloquently and sublime
ly in the sad days of the decline of his
country. Every new relation Of
scientific truth, such as, for instance,
the eternal persistence of force and the
indestructibility of matter, is simply a
new glimpse of the dread realities, viz,
God. Hence it has been that the great
revelations and discoverers of scienti-
fic truth have been in a state of fear
and trembling, when at length, in
some exceptionable hour of almost
supra mortal insight, they have had
the reality or actual truth of things
dawn upon them. 1t establishes the
unity of nature or beholds universal
nature moved by universal mind
For in nature moral law is eo-eXten-
sive with physical law, the law of
duty with the law of gravitation. In
a recent work on Natural Religion,
we are told that 'Linn8us fell on his
knees when he saw the gorse in bios
son. Goethe, gazing from the Brocken,
said, Lord, what is man that thou art
mindful of him?' Kant felt the same
awe in looking at the starry heaven
in considering the moral principle;
Wordsworth is inspired rather among
mountains than among human beings
in solitude Byron felt the rapture
which purified from self.