Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-05-08
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Ihs Christian Union says: "What
Christians object to is not the scientific
testing Of ail scientific conclusions, what.
ever the subj sct- matter with which they
have to 90, but the assumption in certain
qnRrters thAt there are no asesrtninble
truths except such as can by scien-
tifinally northumberland is, asoeftained
by process OF reason applied 10 observed
phenomena. What Christians insist upon
Is thet there are truths Just as certain and
indisputabls which the Heneas oaua0t
perceive and the reason cannot arrive sc.
They are arrived at by other faculties
which are as Trustworthy as either the
Henses or the renson. What we insist
upon ia that the truths of religion, the
truths of goodness in life anc character,
are az real, as certain, as asosrtkinable as
scientific tratha. They are not what peo-
pls happen to think about them. They
are not imaeinRti9ns or emotions. They
are realities. They exist. not in the
mind, hut independently of the mind; as
the law of gravitatlon would still con-
Time If all matter were blotted out of
existence, and would begin forthwith to
operate anew il now matter were called
into existence. Thess religious truths
DO not vary, though mems capacity to
| appreciate them varies. They are eter.
nally the same. The mind does not
create them; it perceives them. The
mind which cannot perceive them is
| ignorant just as the mind which
cannot perceiye the truth that the
world revolves or Its axis ia igno-
rant. The one Incompetence is diff
ferant from tho other, but is no less q
Esal Incompetence than the other.
at il scientific conclusion that the
ten commandments were written in the
age nj Moses; IL is religious truth that
il is wrong 60 steal, to murder, to COM
NIT Rdultery. 1t il. O scientific oonclu-
sion that Jesus Christ lived, died and
ross again from tho dead; it is q religious
truth that his life aud character, az they
are portrayed in the four gospels, are OF
q unique moral beauty and excellence,
unequsled in human history. 1t ia q
scientific conclusion that we are ever in
the presence OF an infinite and eternal
energy, from which all things proceed; II
is d religious truth that we can come into
direct personal, spiritual communion
with the invisible Father of spirits.
These religious truths are truths, NOT
conceptions or imapinings or mental ore
ations. There arc more me- who have
the capacity to perceive the higher relig.
ious truths than there are who have the
capacity to perceive the higaer scientific
truths. And any maa who bias not the
capacity to perceive the fundamental snt
primary religious truths, those truths Of
purity ard goodness on which the whole
fabric of society is built, is mora
idiot. He belongs among the abuorms
specimens of diseased humanity. Hi
place 10 in the hospital for 1ncurables.
"Wo sum up our whole philosophy OIL
thi1 subject with three aphorisms, whict
We recommend to the thoughtful oonsid
GRAFTON OF our readers:
sIdeals are realities.
"ImAgination is sight.
"Unfaith is Ignorance"