The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-07-10

two children at Westfeld. The church
was made in every way attractive and
an occasion profitable to all present.
Glimpses of Primeyal Man.
Professor Clsypole gave the last of the
course of lectures before the students OF
Buchtel on recent Wednesday evening.
A fair audience was present. He stated
that "there we're three sources of informa
ton concerning primeval man, viz: his
tory, archaeology and geology. The old
est writing known to history is on the
monument Of an Egyptian king, and takes
us back $500 years. There was there
fore civilization $500 years ago. But
history can take us no further. Arch@-
ology carries us back much farther-a
least 10000 years as proven by the peat
Dogs of Denmark. This is, however, but
a short time compared with the age of
man on the earth as is revealed by geolo-
gy. Kent's Cave in England was taken as
one of the many sources of information
to show the great antiquity Of man. In
this cave imbedded beneath stalagmite
which must have been many thousands
of years in forming, is found human
jaw. $50 years ago name was cut on
this stalagmite and not over one-twen-
tieth of an inch has formed over this name
as it Is still perfectly legible. At this
point the stalagmite is five feet thick.
The audience were left to draw their own
conclusions as to the length of time it
had been forming. But still below this,
imbedded in cave earth were found 1866
flint Implements, the makers of which did
not know the art of grinding their
tools, but Clipped them to an edge.
At this remote period man roamed the
forests and commended with the wild
beasts, for the mastery, living in caves and
dens. The further geology carries US
back in our search for prehistoric man
the more rude are his implements and the
more degraded his mode of life.
How long has man existed on the earth
I cannot tell you, but the chronology of
the Old Testament is wholly unreliable.
Six thousand years gives us but the faint
est conception of the length of time as
shown by the uncontrovertable testi-
mony of geology. The Old Testament
chronology, SO called, was arranged by an
Irish bishop about two hundred and fifty
years ago, and has not the least founda-
ton" From these few glimpses the au-
dience were left to draw their own con-
illusions. And as one of that audience
the writer felt that what we do not know
as to the length of time that this earth
has been the abode of man would make
a large book. But man has advanced
and this is prophecy that he will con-
tinue 30 to do.
"The Will as Factor in Science"
is the theme for comprehensive and
valuable paper by Rev. VIM. Tucker,
D. D., read before the Institute of Chris
tian Philosophy, Feb. 4, 1886, and pub
lished in the Christian Thought, the
New York organ of the Association. We
give the following synopsis: Conscious
ness and experience verify the existence
of the will. But we are conscious of &C.
ton only, not of being. There can be no
action without being. Action implies be-
ing as motion implies force. This fact
reveals the existence of will, also its nat
ure. Force is that which causes motion.
The will causes action and action is mo-
ton. This proves that will is a cause.
Will is the source of all causation. The
cause of motion is not in matter but
external to it; it must, therefore, be in
mind. It is not material but spiritual.
Force being the cause of motion proves
that force is of spiritual origin. Matter
in it's last analysis is reduced to force.
The manifestation of the divine will in
the force and motion of the universe and
the divine reason in the law and order of
the universe are the two facts that make
all science possible. Science results from
the study of force as the cause and law
as the order of all phenomena and force
reveals will and order reveals reason,
All the forces of nature are traced to the
will of God, and all her laws to divine
intelligence. This is revelation in nat.
ure of the intellect and will of God
Science springs from the cooperation OF
the divine and human factors, hence God
and man must work in hsrmony. Science
and religion result from the effort of the
human mind to account for phenomena
Science and religion reveal the wants
and capacities of mans nature. This
makes revelation the necessary condition
of religion, Revelation conditions the
action of the religious faculty but does
not create this faculty, or cause it to act
In all religious action the intellect, emo
lions and will are engaged. This pre-
sents rational view of the relation o.
revelation to religion. Man in religion
is rational and free. Piety is voluntary
If man were not free, he could not be re
ligious; and all true religion has in it 81
element OF liberty. "If the Son shall
make you free you shall be free indeed.
The spirit of God operating on the spiri
of man imparts the moral power by which
man frees himself from the control o
sin. Divine control is in perfect harmon,
with mans freedom. The spiritual con
trolls the natural; the mental, the moral
the moral, the animal. Freedom has i'll