New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-07

Of evidence that is applied TO the Investigation of phys
be employed for the Investigations Of facts that are
pnyss La You Py 20 t sna n tSs
same tests which you would apply TO the Douy'
HOW GOD is KNOWN.
can measure how high person is lean measure tn1r
features in the face give the color OF the eye
can give the complexion can give some account OF
everything that the ear the eye, the smell, the hand
can describe but cannot, by any OF those measures
enter into the exquisite alchemy Of taste and magma
ton and beauty and love that within the soul They
not measurable by the tests by which you
measure bodily qualities. Men say to me; "You can't
the existence of God You prove the
they say, "of all facts within the realm OF science Yes
but God Is spirt-invsible, intangible-and the pro-
by which these inferior truths
cannot In the nature Of things be applied toll God Is
spirit and they VINO approach Him must ISL
approach Him By the ., spiritmtnat .IS s' n oy
by the senses He has been seen and OF all the
testimonies of the Word none is more explicit than that
God be understood by the physical tests
by which matter Is adtudoated. Is there any other
method Of approach Yes there 10 one scientific ave
hypothesisi A good one ia glorious guess daughter
awaits and Is USn to all Conditions
Of proof II all difficulties be solved by IT, then De,
Theory a1a Is S sea Of God
through fewer difficulties and solves more ques-
is absolutely proved yet in the scientific sense Of the
term but farther In that direction than any other
But the highest proof Of the existence of God moral
intuition. NO proof at all to hardly developed mem they
the middle plain they have moral intuition
But there conditions OF Drain In MAGNITUDE anu ia
quality and In hneness In which the brain IL LUMINOUS
and sees the unseeable and knows the unknowaDle;
thousand men may past magnificent picture ana yer
past and bazes with suppressed color to him These
men turn and say to him! WELL prove siy
We ou are s as ES oSd s "a you ia ner and
thrill with the feeling of It, you say you don tnat
gwen highly organized moral natures to have sense,
luminous incoming conviction or the existence OF God
and knows that t Is spring ard not winter without dis
almanac. He recognizes the exquisite and dell
is unappreciable. Fneness we know wisdom
we know, foresight We know belong to some
prophets and leaders, and we follow them and the
highest and tho noblest natures, when they rise In
OF the Divine Being are conscious OF the presence OF
God They know IT, as we know the very highest truths
look word. il were young man seeking new COM
panOnsbip again, and after acquaintance had minis
rations of affection Would 1 not know and
feel, without looking or listening, that the soul
man soul recognize the soul OF God man NAV be
atheist and be eyolutiOnst but man may be an ey
strength and soul The agnOstios says I'VE don't
know It," But they by that that they don't know
ground Of moral intuition. We know IL know tho
highest nobest truths OF human life. The inter
is far greater than most men have sver
dreamed.
EVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE.
There a great many men that says admit that
there 10 al atheistic ground which can stand;
what Is going TO the influence of this doctrine Of
voution upon the sacred scrpturesp Very beneficial
In the first place. going to correct the absurd
10 which that book has been for so many ages con-
iemned. The Bible itself 10 q most wonderful evo-
luton When you como to measure the time
represented by that sacred book is surprised.
What other book ever there that It took PROB
ably moro than 10000 years TO write Many people
have idea that certain reporters. called prophets
went to God and interviewed Him Ilaughterl and
tnat they sat down and He told them what TO write
ana everything Bible they think. right from
The lips OF Cod Tue old doctrine Of what IL called
penary ana verbal nspratiOn-tnat every word IN the
Bible proceeds from the mind OF God, aud that every
statement IN the Bible Is ratified by the authority OF
Cod. dying OUT among Intelligent men, Mr.. niger !
soils whole pivotal power Is the fact that among
No large a humber OF men there has been an |
that everything IN the Bible has been derived
from God What ia the BibeI II l. a complex aud long
national ines 1t is history that Is wh@s t Is ZAP
rue period before the legends that contained in
ieness Ia simply mmeasurable. No one knows about
L luminous interpretations OF things preceding yet
know that there preceding existence. We come
Town TO tho time OF Moses and there were
egonds OF the origin OF They were the
,est statements OF the then idea that prevailed
espect 10 the methods OF creation they
atuered together not as absolutely true but as giving
he history of the thought aud the beliefs OF men Ia
hes" very earliest periods. They might be true-they
shl be- not but they were the best that men had In
hose early AGES III tno infancy OK human lnouRnt ana
iuuIan intelligence. Wien writing TIE nc OF any man
write the NE OF his childhood; nOt that what he
hougnt and did then was the best thlng Tor him
mt because IL is necessary TO the complete
dra aud understanding Of the fall grown man by-and
Then step after step after i've hundred years had
oiled away another book would he written, and 1t
adhered up the experience OF tue human race upto
nat time, In regard 70 government, the family c0nd-
ion great moral ights that had begun 10 develop
themselves. -Four hundred years roll away, ana there
would he another addition. representing what had been
aimed Ia that four hundred years. thousand years
oiled by and another part would be written, giving what
theu the state Of progress ana what was believed
housuds OF years rolled away anu thcn came tle great
eVelopment in Lord and saviour Jesus Christ He
hry or forty years after ms death before there
yaOe written that the New Testament contains. Then
70 nave the development at last of the emaucipaed
prt OF man, the knowing consciousness The pcncuat-
cueratcd and elevated human soul.
The Bible Il, therefore, an encyclopedia OF
down to the present time aud TO pick out here and
acre an aOsurdiJ and then say; There - your God
IT, except "a TO men that believe IA penary
mi verbal inspiration. Thousands OF things men
,me they put away childish things But here Is
other sucn re ord on inc face OF inc earth nor has
nv other Nation, except the Israee Nation and the
ucnt nations down 10 the present day, had any sucb
story any such unfolding OF tue Dy when men
se tue lowest stages OF unlniausm and came To
ne ,,,.r thai trom the Deginnlng TO The end OF
lis book you cannot hnd one sngle. solitary syllable
favor Of force-uOt one. You cannot ind anywhere a.
ne single leaning towards oppression The working y
an In his wages his ranent-all OF the Oldest or
r OLD Testament is in favor Of the working nan ANY
IA RS on earth there IL more humanity than that IN
10 Institutes OF Moses one would be astonlsled to see
wv far in many respects IL IL y
,ead OF the praoLcsl morality Of our =
", and all the way down through the
igers and prophets OF the Old Testament, the Bible
"A thunderbolt OF denuncati1u against wrong. lAp-
aiseJ There never has been a modern nation that y
IA oppressed By crceds, driven out from home, ! n
rOnged by presorait aud civil tyranny that did not
Ike refuge In the Old Testament, because the whole
init of IT, with trumpet tones, mars allied Ike "a
an.ofwar against all evil and all oppression for bu
lnlty and for Kindness Of love. (ApplLuse Aud you
ne down the New Testament, and you find there q
Q very charter OF the rights OF tho weak and y
those liable TO be despolled, as nowhere T
SO you can For look at one single =