The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-02-19

minds do not dispute that here, at
least, are great forces; here is great
fact OF work, along the grooves of
which history is now running. You
find them limited at il recent science,
and more than limited at in social
science, and plainly asserted in phil
osopby; but in the Bible we find them
spread out in actual living. Me. who
believe them live and act and struggle,
and die before our eyes. We behold
the truth along with its illustration and
vindicatIon. l anticipate the day when
the B BILE will stand higher in the es
innate of men than ever before. 1t will
not be blindly worshiped as in the
past. but it will be more intelligently
read. 1t is not book of the past, but
of the future. AS we move up toward
1t we shall find that it reflects the
world on its pages. and that it contains
the true order of human life. Mean
while it is not amiss for US to study the
decalogue for social guidance; the
beatitudes for guides in daily life; and
Christ in all the light and mystery of
his being and character, as the way the
truth, and the life-the way through
this tangled world, the truth in this
world of perplexity, the life in this
world where all things else perish and
pass away.-Rev. T. Munger, d. D.. in
Christian Union.
There will come time. as believe.
in the 9ons of our Immortality when
We snali be able with eagle eyes TO
embrce the Divine plan OF our worlds
history, and once more look on every
thing which has been MADE and find it
good. But now-poor flock of aphldB
that we are, crawling on one leaf of the
great Ygdrassil oak-it is vain for us
TO hope to attain any such sweep of
vision. Let science toll on and add fact
to fact, and improve her theories gen.
GRAFTON after ge Grafton, carrying the
assurance with her that to days know
ledge will be to-morrow's ignorance.
When all is done her tower will never
reach to heaven, nor even be appre-
ciahiy nearer to it at the summit than
at the base. It is in other ways that
man must fin God: nav. rather than
Coz will find man; that the Father OF
Spirits seeks and finds the spirits
(which also are His offspring We
may sill gaze upon this beautiful world
with the sweet sense that our joy in its
loneliness is in truth the deep sympathy
of sons in their Fathers work, the echo
of Gods divine light in beauty. maj j.
tested in earth and sky. But when we
behold the wrongs and agonies of uu-
offending creatures We need not perplex
our souls and warp our moral sense by
endeaYoring to find justification for
such evil, but fall back on the testi-
mony of our own consciences to the
perfect goodness of their Lor !. The
still small voice" which says to US
.'Be merciful?" is our guarantee that
He who utters it is all-merciful.-
Frances POaCer COJbe IN the COntem-
porary RevieW.
In questions physical and metaphys-
icai it (the Bible) has no concern and
utters no voice. With the achievements
OF science it never competes, nor can it
be cOntradicted by them. 1t encourages
its researches, ennobles its aspirations,
crowns and completes IT'S discoveries.
Into the dead body of physical truth it
puts the living soul of faith in the
Divine Author. Like the blue heaven
surrounding and spanning over the
green earth. revelation overreaches and
encircleS science. Wihin that infinite
embrace, beneath that spacious dome,
drawing from its azure depths light and
life and fructifyihg warmth, science
unhampered and unhindered works
out its majestic mission of blessing to
men and glorv to God. Collision there
can be none till the earth strike the sky.
The message of the Bible is messs &c
from Gods heart to ours. 1t cannot De
proved by reason nor can II be dis
proved. 1t appeals, not to sight, but to
faith, and belongs to the realm of spirit
and not to that of sense. Science may
have much to alter in our notions of its
earthly embodiment, but its essential
contents it cannot touch. That Is not
theory, but reality. Jtis not philosophy,
but life; not flesh, but spirit. 1t is the
living. breathing. feeling love of God
b~come articulate. 1t needs no evidence
of sense. In the immuta6le instincts
the human heart it has its attestatioDs.
and in life of responsive love it f1nds
an unfaIliug verifcation. 1t rests on
basis no sane criticism can undermine
'not solid science shake. Happy the
man whose faith has found this fxer
foundation and whose heart possesses
adamantine certainty: He shall be
iikened unto a wise man who built
his house upon rock: And the rain
descended and the floods came and the
winds blew and beat upon thas house
and it fell not, for II was founded upon
rock. w, Gray Elmslie, in CONTEMPT
orUry ReUiep.