The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-07-10

tics OF the Romans?
"CHAUTAUQUA COURSE IN PHYS
ICS."-Steele.
NATURAL PHYSICS AS APPLIED TO
CHRISTIANITY.
Even the casual or Indifferent student
will recognize in the study of natural phys
les the subtle power of an unseen Hand.
He must be dull indeed, and his mind void
of all imagination if he cannot see in the
changes which takes place in the ceaseless
roll and evolution of time the hidden Hand
that rules it's motions. Leaving out the
orthodox and abstruse questions of theol-
Ogy. can we not see in the array of facts
presented to our view by ocular and scien-
ti6c demonstration the wise and unseen
Power?
With the lens Of the microscope we see
the limitleSS number of atoms necessary to
produce mOlecule; and of the same num-
Der of those, body however small, and
while the mind is lost in wonder and aston
iShment for the time being. the final re-
suit is, the senses becoming accustomed to
the fact, it resolves itself into a common
place matter, and we say to ourselves nat
ure has strange ways or freaks! The de-
velOpments of the natural sciences produce
the same effect on the ordinary mind. The
establishment of facts in the theory of
gravitatiOn, facts most profound because
they demonstrate to human intelligence the
relationship of our habitable globe to that
of the heavenly bodies, become common
place when they are clearly understood.
The same may be said of electricity, that
most profound and least understood of all
discoveries which have been produced by
man since the Garden of Eden. We see the
mechanical appliances which produce it's
activity and wonder at it's utility and
adaptlbilitY for the convenience of man,
and there our wonder ceases.
The early, or what we call the clark
ages" have constant demonstrations from
God of His existence, as in the burning
bush; the dividing of the waters; the
plaques Of Egypt and a hundred others, all
OF which were ocular, and denoted the act
ual Presence in those events. They were
miracles of His mercy and warnings to
man, and were so frequent although terri
BILE. that the mind of man became accus-
toned to view them as ordinary events even
If attributable by them, as they undoubt-
eddy were, as coming from the Divine
source of nature. Even the coming of
Christ, although foretOld from the begin
ming, and handed down from generation to
generation, and was fixed belief in the
minds of all nations, became stale in the
minds OF the masses. And when it did take
place it was so far different from their ex-
pectations that they refused to believe it
had really come to pass, because it was so
simple that its very simplicity breathed
doubt, and because His birth or coming in
their Imagination was to be heralded by
blasts of angels trumpets and the glory and
gorgeous panOply of all the heavenly hosts.
But was it so? No! By low and whisper
ing winds. and eOlian lips of angel hosts re-
jOicing, did the Savior come for whom thew
had looked so long. A lowly Child in
lowly and lonely place and condition,
hence the shock to their human expecta-
tons.
Cannot the student in physical nature see
In this that God cannot be untrue to Him.
Self? That He is Natures Self? And this
sphere OF ours and all it's inhabitants are
only an atom and an infinitesimally small
part OF Himself. The Testament of Christ
is only an atom to show us the great ON.
Impotence OF God and physical nature in a
small degree as to what He is Himself as a
whole. The development of science took
It's Dlrth from Him, comparatively speaking,
ana miracles nave not ceased no more than
from the beginning of the world and hu-
man existence, but are forever being DEM
onstrated by the hand of science and human
intelligence.
If the ancisnts had Moses and the