Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

itself upon. 4meu. .1E sssppo.i
sitt00dt 10 iihsirl reason. Tho fsss' ie
ieliJioncallst for the if1llesti. exsrcisd9
uEt reaion.y When' q imam, ,aoesptsst1s-it
religion o6 the golpel. he ands that it
1ss the most reas0nabls thing he
could, do. 3 Rsligion: calls for the
futlest sxeIcise OF reason - to the
thiQHs fairly within the province OF
reason. It. forLids the exercise OF
reason upon .thOse matters that are
beyond lis scope. Religion sAys to
men, ,'come, lot ua rcason together"
The religion OF the gospel cOmes ~
> messenger from! another country to
comm nnioate to the men Of this c0un-
tsy scientific truths Of which tho N hole |
rsce are profoundly ignarant. IL 10
in them that they should
not oOuly exercise their -reason, but |
sls0. their confidencs iii ilhe aisssen-
ger. ia scieutisr shuuhi go from the
United Ststes TO, the SOU tlI sea ISLAM
ders.. he could tell the N mysteries Tar 4
ypreaent Dopiprehensi0a,.
kl would not be- su esbae CATION, but
rather ram exercise ofjreasOn on. theirJI
part osligteu aud learn Of him. The.
irsf .fai. Lhlng for him to do would ba
70. afford iheIu. the evidence Of his
ability to teach them those secrets Of
saisucs of. which they ,wars 80 igno-
rant. and yat which 40 deeply inv0lva
d, thsirs iuterests. Having laid tho
yroundl0 confdepce zhe might fairly
proceed to-, instruct them in; those
sciences and arts with which he aud
the people of his own oountry5Were
SO familiar, bnt In regard to- which
they were soiGuoraDt. 1t would net be
sausihls tor those people to say they
wonld NOT receive what they could
not. uude~sland.a For example. hA
might tell them that In this country
tho people. had . metaOd whereby tho
steam which they saw rising from
their. kettles co4ld be used for turning
ths. " heels OF mighty manufactures.
or for propelliug vast vessels along
the riyers aud oyer the ssas. Or he
might. tell them ihA: In his country
the peQpls had . procees whereby they
could converse with each other thou,
sandsi Of. iniles apart. = He might tell
them that in, his copntry the peopls
had .. pr0cess whereby they could
impress thought upon, tablets, aud
preserve j. through, coming genera
tons. L would not be sspslble in
those vpsgple1 to say. that reason for,
bsda the hsPossibIlltieS Of these th,ngs,
sRd theref0gey they would not, iisle9
and lesr4,o Il would be, . aensible ,ex-
erctse, Of rssson on their part to test
the honesty, and Tho capsbility TO in
strnct, them of the lnau who cAme to
Lta4ch. ,thsm. aud then it would be .
sensible exercise of, reason on their
part, 70 receive what he had to, COM
municAte. Thus they would arise out
Of the poverty aud dsbssem Of bar
bsrism inte all the wealth aud gran
aeur Of civilization. The Ipgsrsoll
philosopEy 10 that the savage who; sa, Z
| lhese things are contrary to rsason
should not receive them. .-
FOLLOWING THE ANALOGY. E
1t IL precisely in the way We have
pointed out that the scientific wonders
/ which concerned the souls OF men
came to this wol ID. There had been
vague rumors Of : far of heavenly
world where there was q wondropa
civilization, Theme rumors had come
bi dreams and yigtons to patriarch
aud prophets. q Dreams aud. vision.
had cast fragments Of DRIFT from the
thssveh1y thore, upon our shore a. Ii
we're, . flower here. and there tha,
iexfdehtly had not grown in our soil
q shell whose hexrs seemed to eoho
with the mufinur Of far Of wsteri
rolling agaiist other shores. Hers
and thsrs angelic spparltions had
doAted along our coast, dim and
wondrous. like white winged vesseii
touching shore for . moment aud then
winging their way out again upon The
mysterious deep. But at length there
came solemn EN- bassy. Tho rumors
4 the fragments Of prophecy, tho drift
had only prepared tho way for 1t
The InfiGits King 81 the universe had
II 1eIa th, IN thu midst 6t tho age, sci
abotti rsducir fthis savage land oi
iiisssion. "onssn nee the embssy
1.-The, 'szIIeen Of God was Him
self thHs soas G He was 10 colnmun,.
cate sscfluIlprsAt had an earth sid,
aud . heaven side. The earth side
no could partly understand. Th.
heaven side we could not understand
The heaven side was beyond the scop,
Of our reason. The fret thug FOL
Him to do vas 10 lay the ground fOl
our couadeuce in Him a. q teacher
come from the other country. Thil
He did by doing heavenly wonders
such as Ws call miracles. Having done
this He had . right TO cay to us
"NoW Listen to Me aud [ will teact
you such mysteries ~ will briug yor
out OF your state of soul bsroarisn
into harmony With heavenly civilizs
tion." 1t 1t would be reasonable iol
South SsaI I>lsnders to receive ,h,
communications Of science from all
other hati on more advanced iu civill
zation than they. just the other sid
Of narrow, seas, how much more rea.
sonah thar el we should receive theu
frs IA aetivet her side of the lneasureles
deep, asry'h separates time iron
eterr ;. seriou: rtainly heaven is bette
able s. .ex, earth than one nation I,
teach anotiI.f. Inxersoll philosoph,
10 unreasenable when it refuses to re
ceive the things it cannot Ut presen o
understand. A father eau tell hi
child great many wonderful thing
which seem altogether opposed no
only to. reason but 10 the evidence o
the senses, aud which are. neverthe
less, true, and which Q respectful
child will receive. because of the fsit
he hes In him who declares them t.
him. When he tells the child that th
sun 10 many tlnes larger than th
whole world, it would not do for tn
child to say, II can see the sun, aud
know it 10 not larger than q coac
Wheel" When the child Is told iha
the earth tarns quite over every day
1t would not be for him to say it j
utterly contrary to reason, for reaso
tells us that ifit turned over every
thing on 1t would tumble of. Ingel
little boy. Now, / receive the Chri'
Ian religion because 1t seems TO 10
the most reasonable thing can do.
any QUO viii show me any form of b,
lief that seems more reasopAbie vi
discard nine aud take that. m
lngersotl eau convince nc that hi
belief il MvG0 reasonable than m