The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-29

III
q good reason, that this is anotbar 90.
nTnIatlon OF the old Biblical sav;Da
1n-.Wrath of man shall praise H;ra
put there is much in this article IF GIa,
stone that the young man of scenic
0Snuencies might do well to read and
SHOWS confidence in Divine PROV
uence In the affairs of men that MIL
warm the hearts of all the RihIe ~
ueVerS toward the "Grand Old Man
IL is In the Nineteenth Cent,tr,,. ;ts t;tIo
! Inc Dawn OF Creation and Worsb1n.
and it's reply to DR.. Revilie's s.pr,,
iegomena to the History of Religions
In which is denied the autbor;ta.;,,.
character OF the first book of the Pan
tateuch. The doctor argues that on az
peal TO the supernatural is Der % inod
mlssable;. that divine revelation con
tanning the sublime doctrines Of ~,
| purest inspiration, given to man at AZ
age indefinitely remote and in a ststa .
absolute ignorance" is "infiniteI,
hard TO imagine; that it is not fayore5
by analogy and that it contradictz al
We know OF prehistoric man. Mr.. Glad
stone opposes all these views. diseusse,
the evolution theory OF Darwin. make,
coplous and. scholarly references and
makes a good case. He concludes with
the following eloquent and impressive
sentiments, which, coming from that
source, are worthy much considera.
ton:
[ own my surprise not only at the
fact, but at the manner in which in this
day, writers. whose name is Legion. nm
impeached IN character and aboundinp
in talent, not only put away from them.
cast INTO shadow or into the very gull
of negatlon itself, the conception of a
Deity, an acting and ruling Deity. OF
this belief, which has satisfied the
doubts, and wiped away the tears. and
found guidance for the footsteps of so
many weary Wanderer on earth, which
among the best and greatest of our race
| has been so cherished by those who had
it and so longed and sought for bv
those who had it not, we might supnose
that, if at length we had discovered that
| it w&S in the light of truth untensbIe
that the accumulated testimony of man
was worthless, and that his wisdom was
but folly, yet at least the decencies of
mourning would be youchsafed to this
irreparable loss. Instead of this If is
with a JOY and exultatiOn that might
almost recall the frantic orgies of the
Commune, that this, at least at first
sight terrifies and overwhelming calam-
ity is accepted, and recorded as Gain
One recent, and, in many WAYS. re-
s. ected writer-a woman long wont To
unship creed as sailors discharge excess
OF cargo In storm and passing at length
into formal atheism-rejoices to find
herself on the open, free, and "breezv
common of humanity" Another. also
woman, and dealing only with the
workings and manifestations of God
finds in the theory of a physical eyolu
ton as recently developed by Mr.. Oar
win, and received with extensive favor.
both an emancipation from error and q
novelty in kind. She rejoices to think
that now at last Darwin "shows life as
an harmonious whole, and makes the
future stride possible by the past ad-
vance" Evolution, that is physical
evolution, which alone is in view, may
be true like the solar theory, may be
delightful and wonderful, in its right
place; but are We really to understand
that variety of animals brought about
through domestication. the wasting of
organs (for instance. the tails of mem
by disuse, that natural selection and the
survival of the fittest, all in the phvsi
cal order, exhibit to US the great dredn-
am of creation, the sum and centre
of life, so that mind and spirit are de-
throned from their old supremacy, are
no longer sovereign by right, but may
find somewhere by charity a place as
signed them, as appendages, perhaps
only as eXcrescences, Cf the material
creation? 1 contend that evolution. in
its highest form has not been a thing
heretofore unknown to history, to phil
osophy, or to theology. l contend that
it was before the mind of st. Paul when
he taught that in the fitness of time
God sent fourth His Son, and OF Fuse
bus, when he wrote The Preparation
for the Gospel, (" and of Augustine when
he composed "The City of Cod" and.
beautiful and SPLENDID as are thesles-
sons taught by natural objects, they are
for Christendom, at least-indefiniteI
beneath the sublime unfolding of the
great drama of human action, In which,
through long ages, Greece was making
ready a language and an intellectual
type, and Rome a framework of order
and an idea of law, such that in them
were to be shaped an fashioned the des-
TIMES of regenerated world For
those who believe that the old fOunda-
tIont are mistaken still, and that the
fabric built upon them will look down
for ages on the floating wreck of MANY
a modern and boastful theory, it is diff
cult to see anything but infatuation in
the destructive temperament which
leads to the notion that to substitute a
blind mechanism for the hand of God in
the affairs of life is to enlarge the scope
of remedial agency; that to dismiss the
highest of all inspira tons is to elevate
the strain of human thought and life;
and that each of us to rejoice that our
several units are to be disintegrated at
death into counties millions of organ
isms;" for such. IL seems, is the latest
revelation" delivered from the fragile
tripod of modern Delphi. Assuredly
on the minds of those who believe, or
else on the minds of those who after
this fashion disbelieve, there lies some
deep judicial darkness, a darkness that
NAV be felt. While disbelief in the eyes
of faith is a sore calamity, this kind of |
disbelief which renounces and repudi- !
ates with more than satisfaction what is |
brightest and best in the inheritance of |
man, is astounding, and might be |
deemed incredible Nay. some will say, I
rather than accep. the 'flimsy and hol-
ow consolation which it ma hes bold to /
1ffer, might we not go back to solar adj
,ration, or, with Goethe, othe hollows (
n OLYMPUS? WANDERER.
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