The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-03-29
REVELATION AND SCIENCES.


BI.hop Kaia's third LSntsn Discourse CD
the subjScs
Biahop Kahn preached at the Cathedral
yesterday afternoon the third sermon in
his series tending to show the harmony
between the discoveries Of science and
tile truths OF revelation. There was a
still larger congregation present than on
the occasions OF the delivery oil either Of
the two former disCourseS, showing plain
ly that the Bishops able treatment ofthis
intensely interesting topic is aronaing q
growing public interest.
There is no science, perhaps, remarked
the Bishop, from which inhdels pretend
to draw stronger arguments against Divine
Revelation than from Geology. That
science, they argue, predlcates for our
earth an existence Of millions Of years.
Yet there are eminent scientists who con.
test the grounds ON which this claim iB
based, But, continued the Bishop, II our
earth has existed for millions Of years, this
fact Is perfectly reConellable with the
Mosaic declaration; "In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth"
Again, on the authority Of distinguished
scientists, the arguments 60 confidently
grounded on the present conditions OF the
physical world were called int question
and yet, even II we grant the validity Of
these arguments, the Bible will still DO
unimpaired.
THE Blk DAYS.
lie then devoted considerable time 10
the proof OF this position. He took the
days" or successive periods mentioned
by Moses, and Contrasted the gradual de.
yelopment Of the universe as there given
with the process OF gradual evolution as
now taught by geologistp, aud dWelt on
the marvellous similarity between the In
spired record and the teachings Of science.
Men may, in by'gone ages, have tnisin-
terpreted, or rather failed to understand,
the Bible account; nay, we may oven I'D:
init that the inspired writer himself did
not fully understand 1t. But II science
to-day faithfully interprets the work Of
the Creator and Ruler OIL the Universe,
the wonderful accuracy Of tho Mosaic
statements furnishes strong confirmation
Of the inspiration Of tho Holy Scripture.
For compare what science tells Of the
gradual formation Of the world as II now
exists with the chief points In the Bible
record, and none but the pefyeTsely BIZ
ased can fall to see the admirable har.
mony between SCIENCE aud Revelation.
THE ORDER OF CITATION.
But II IL in the order OF the creation OF
living beingsj that inddel scientists pre-.
tend to And the most evident COntradlc.
ton between the Bible and the results Of
modern investigations. The caustiC, Bneet.
inR tone OF Prof. HUXLEY, in his late dis
Cussion on this point with the Hon. Mr..
Gladstone, charaCterizes many oil his co.
workers In the inhdel school. But with
all his assumed superiority, lie does not
reiute the position Of the English Premier.
To the objections drawn from thlR source,
the Bishop replied, lrBt by citing the
arguments oil men quite az able az Huxley
that no such contradictions exist and,
second, BY stating certain theories BY
which, (evsn were all that Huxley and
others assert true) the Bible record 70 vim
dictated.
THE MYsTRRY or LiFE.
tA6u Lnb DlbuUp phhbeu W tue CUlbluoIr
alton Of the great mystery oil life, in any,
even It's lowest stage. This is the question
which has perplexed The mind Of the
philosopher In every age. We know that
life exlsls.-in the vegetable "a well ~ In
the animal nature and Ia man butwhence
does II Gomez MRterialiBtB will have II
that Il springs from inorganic, llielssJ mat.
ter, Divine revelation maintains that God
is its author. This much 10 certain, that
Science, With oil lie marvellous discoveries,
has never succeeded In proving the truth
Of the materiAliBtic school and II never
will. In support Of the Christian position,
the Bishop adducsd the testimonies oil
eminent sclehtlslB-all OF which went 10
show the impossibility Of lie being evolved
from liieless elements. lie concluded BY
quoting the authority Of Darwin himself,
who 10 forced TO acknowledge that 40 iaf
science has thrown no light on the problem
Of the essence OF origin Of LIE, and who Il
10 assume the pfe.exlstenee Of
al least q few pfimordlal living types, In |
order 10 construct his theory o. evolution |
by the law he calls natural selection"
This interesting Bubject-And II 10 a. In.
poftant ~ II ID lnterestlng-wlll DO con.
ilnued In Tue following lectures, '