The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-06
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.
Rev. r, '. Maager, la Toe Csasary.


 Rev. r. T. Munger, la TAe Ceasary,I
 "WAen chemistry put the key os the physical universe into the hand of scsenca. M was yell enough to give up century to the dasaiing picture 1t revealed. X century oi concentrated and universM gaze al the world out of whose dust we are made. and whose forces play in the throhs ot our hearts, is not loo much: but after having sat 50 long before the brilliant play of elemental names, and seen ourselves reduced to simple gas and force under laws tcE whose strength ada. mani ts no measure, we have become a lttle restive and take up again the old questions. Science has not explained us 10 ourselves. nor compassed us in iss ra- tort. nor measured as h sts law ot ronsi- nai,y. You have shown me ef what Am made, how put together, ard linked my action to the invariable energy of the uni. verse; now tell me what l am explain to mo consciousness, will, thought, de sire, love, veneration. confess myself so be all you say, but krow myself to be more; toll me what tha. mere is. $ Silence. tn It's early and wisely narrow sense, could not respond ,o tAese de- mands but 1t has enlarged it's vocation under two impulses. It has pushed its researches until it has reached verges be. yond which is cannot 70, yet sees foyt e and phenomena that t cannot exelain nor speak of without using the nomen. elatare of metaphysics. h recent able work ofscience the word spirit is adopted into the scientific vocabulary. Again. physical science has yielded lo the ne- cessity of Allying itself with other seieaces -- 6nding itself on their borders, Chem. is,ry led up 10 biology, and this In return to psychology, and so on to sociology and history and religion. and even to metaphysics, whose tools IL has used wish some disdain of their source In short, n found that there ls no such thing ss upr- ctho science, but that ali sciences Ara parts of one universal science. The broad studies of Darwin and Herbert Spencer have done much toward essab. fishing this conviction. which has brought about what may be called comity oi the sciences or era ot good feeling. The chemist sits down by the metaphyxioian and says: Tell me what you know about eonsciousness and the thcologian listens eagerly to the story of evolution. Unless we greatly misrsad the temper of recent science, IL is ready to pass over certain phenomena it has discovered and aues- ,ions 't has raised, to theology. And with more confidence we may assert that theology is parting with the cenceiti had assumed as 'queen of the nciVncea,' and clothing itself wi,h its proper humility, ia ready to accep, report from any who can aid in It's th ll,ed studies.
 This comi,y between the sciences, or rather necessary correlation, not oniy leads to good feeling and mutual respect, but insures . recognition of each others eoncluiions. Whatever Is true to one mus. be tue In all Whatever Is necus. saEy so the perfection of enc cannot ba ruled out of another. That which is true In mans spiritual lie must be true in his social lie; and whatever is true In social life must not contradict anything in his physical lie. We nigh, revesse ihis, and say that no true ph, siologist will de. hne the physical man so as to exclude the social man nor will he 60 define the social and political man az to shut out the spiritual man nor will he 90 dsRne the common humanity as to exclude peuon. all,y. He will leave margin for other sciences whose claims arc as valid as those of his own. IL, for example, i'm mortality is a necessary co ordinate of mans moral nature an evident part of its content the chemist and physiologts, ~ill not set it a,ide because they ind no repor, of it In their fields. ifit Is . part of their spiritual and moral science, II cam st be rejected bee ause IL is not found in physical science. 50 much, at least, has been gained by the new comfy In the sciences that opinions are respected. and questions tia: Ss.eas :e c.he: depart menss are Telegated to them tn scientific spirit"