The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-09-23
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given us four Testaments-two of them
written, two unwritten, the Oldest and
the Newest, unwritten, the Old and
the the New, written. The Oldest is
God in nature; the Old. God in moral
law and Mosaic Institutes the New,
God in the Christ of History; the
Newest, God in the Person of the Holy
Paraclete.
First-The Oldest God in nature.
Material law evidences the immaneney
of Divine Agency. Of Him, and
through Him, and to Him, are all
things. A new doctrine to the worlds
nations A doctrine never heard in the
Academies of Greece. the Forum of
Rome; never voiced by the oracles of
Acardia or DelphOs. The creation one
In origin, government and end. Gods
many and the unity, harmony, broth.
erhood of the race are destroyed, One
God and One Mediator and the race Is
unified. Idolatry IL itself presumptive
argument for the existence and govern
ance of One God. The universal con-
sciOusness of the race Is Godward The
dim light of nature is su fficient to en-
courage the innate idea. The footprints
Of Jehovah might be deciphered in the
sands of time, but the students are dull
and dreamy, and natures seers and
sages dumb with doubt and dwarfed by
selfishhess. Natures glass, untainted
by the quicksilver of selfishness, is
translucent. 1dolatry is the projection
of self into nature and beholding sells
reflection. The design of the Gospel y
not to create knowledge of God, a
sense of sin, and the doctrine of medi-
alton, but only to correct false notions
Of the One God. superinduced by apos-
tacy, and to direct mankind to the GER
tain and unfailing source of being and
blessedness. Man is one, God one,
Nature one. Ever the same sun shines
by day, the same moon cheers by night.
The same atmosphere bathes the earth,
the same ocean waters begirt and beat
upon its thousand sinuous shores The
same uniform laws do inmate the do.
minion of nature everywhere, ever
more. The beauty and bliss of every
part flow from the harmony of the
whole.
Look round the world beheld the chain
oflove,
Combining all below and all above.
See plastic nature working to this end;
Atoms to atoms-clods to chrystals tend.
See dying vegetables life sustain;
See life, dissolving, vegstate again.
All served, all serving, nothing stands alone,
The chain holds on, and where II ends
unknown"
the ground for such pleasing reflections
What has science to say against them
Stoically it is asked:
"rhink we like some weak prince,t the Eternal
Cause,
Prone for his favorites to reverse his laws"
Cold and comfortless philosophy bids
us accept inevitable fate as determine ed
by the relentless laws of Nature What
is without reason required we would
for reasons refuse. We grant that the
forces of matter act according to uni
form and invariable laws, but we do
not forget the relation of will to law.
Laws are invariable, inimitable and
yet they may effect variable results. Is
it violation of uniform law that the
icy barrenness of winter succeeds the
luxuriance of summer? Is it a perver-
sion of infiexible order that "a hog
should eat arsenic and live, man eat it
and die? Our enemies being judges
there have been many floods besides
the reputed one of Genesis, without
any suspension of established physical
laws. Granted they were the necessary
results of certain combinations of the
Interchangeable forces of nature. From
an exhaustless magazine OF combina-
lions the Governor of the world can
draw the agencies of his dispensations
without violating the known or un-
known physical laws. A miracle ia
not suspension of natural law, but
merely something done just outside the
utmost limit of finite mind. GaliIleo
postulated the earth's daily and annual
revolutions. Miracle miracle The
old stellar sage became a martyr to his
theory. Impossible said the wise
men. But in the expansion OF mind
the inexplicable problems became a
philosophIc axiom. The miracle was
because of mental ignorance and not in
the violation of physical law.
Prof. Tyndall, leader in the ranks
OF infidel rationalism, said at Dundee,
1867, In his lecture to workingmen
"lf You ask me whether science has
solved or is likely to solve the problem
OF this universe, must shake my head
In doubt" But my theme is opulent
and bids me hasten.
THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
Nature all along has been eliminating
the feeble and ill-favored, and securing
the survival of the fittest. This pro,