The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-06-06
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.
Rev. T. r. MuAger, la TAe Caninrr-l |


 Rev, ', '. Munger, ia TAe csa,aFy.l
 "WAen chemistry put the ksx ef .Aa physical nnlvssse into the hand of scienc". It Saa wsal snoaeA to give up ceasusy to the daaaGag picture h revealed. A eensaty oa concentrated and univessal 9ase al the world out ot whose dust we are made. and whose forces play in the thrces oa our hearts, ls not too much; but afsef having sat 90 long before the brilliant play oi elemental AAmes, and seen ourseaves reduced so simple gas and force under laws for whose strength ada maat ts no measure. we have become a httle resiive and take up again the old questions. Science has noe esplained ua to ourselves nos compassed Us in it's re. tott. nor measured us h iss law ct ron,i. nut,y. You have shown me uf what am made, how put together, and linked my action to the invariable energy of the uai. verse; nov tell me what am sxplaia to ms consciousness, will, thought, de are, love. veneratioa. 1 confess myself to be all you say, but kr ow myaeif ,o he more; tell mo what that more is, Silence. tn its early and wisely narrow sense. could not respond to these de- mands but h has enlarged its vocation under two impulses. it has pushed i,s researches until It has reached vefxes be. Yond which :t canno, go, yet sees fosres and phenomena that 1t cannot explain nor speak of without using the aomeu- eiatare of metaphysics. h recent able work otsclence the word spirit Is adopted into the scientific vocabulary. Again, physical science has yielded .o the no. cessi,y ot allying itself with other sciences -hndipg itself on their borders, Chem. istry led up io biology. and this ia return to psychology. and a on to sociology and history and religion, and ssea to metaphysics, whose scels i, has used with some disdain ot their source In short. ss found that there ls no such thing as spe- cihc science, but that all sciences ate parts of one univeEsal science. The broad studies of Darwin and Herbert Spencer have done much towafd estah- ltshtng this conviction, which has brought about what may he called comi,y of the sciences ot esa ot good feeling. The chemist sits down by the meiaphysleian and says: Tell me what you know about consciousness, and the ,heolosian listens eagerly to the story Of evolution. Unless we greatly misread the temper of recent science, it is ready to pass over certaiu phenomena t has discovered and ques. ;io1s |; has :s:=sd, se theology. And with more confidence we may assert that theology is parting with the cenceiti t had assumed AS queen of the sciences, and clothing itself with it's proper humility, is ready to accept report from any who can aid in its ts sl,ed studies.
 This comity between the sciences, or rather pscessary correlation, not only leads to good feeling and mutual respect, but insures a recognition of each others concluiicns. Whatever is true la one must be tue In all. Whatever is neces. sary to the perfection of enc cannot be ruled out of another. That whirh 10 true in man's spiritual lie must be true in his social life; aud whatever Is ,rss in social life must not contradict anything ia his physical lite. We might revesse this, and say that DO true phy siologist will de. hne the physical man SO as to exclude the social man nor will he 60 dsiins the social and political man as to shut out the spiritual man nor will he 70 dshne the common humanity as io exclude person. ali,y. He will leave margin ioG other sciences whose claims are as valid as those of his own. II, for example, Im- mortality is A necessaty co ordinate of mans moral nature --an evident part oi it's tonieni-ths chemist snd physiologis, ~ill not SC, IL a.ide because they find DO report of it in their hclds lfn ls q part of their spiritual snd motai science, h cams, be rejected because it is no, found in physical science. 50 much, at least, has been gained by the new oomity in the sciences that opinions are respected, and questions that belong to other depart ments are relegated to them in q scien,ihc spirit"
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