People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-22
declare that this infinite, eternal energy

declare that this infinite, eternal energy
is none other than the living God.
Second-The man who asserts the
creed OF matter must deny what we
know best.
NATURE SPEAKS.
He must deny voice to nature. Nature
throbs with intelligence. She speaks,
The coming and the going of the sea.
sons speak in a thousand tongues to
men. The swelling of the bud, the
bursting of the leaf, the blossoming Of
the flower, the song of the bird-all
these have their divine language. The
storm speaks. That is to say, the storm
speaks a language higher and diviner
than the measure of hydraulic pressure
or of grayitation. The ocean speaks in
a language sublimer than the chemical
constituents of water. The mountain
that looms in solemn grandeur before
US has its voice Of the eternities. So of
held and flower, so of all nature. Thew
speak a language higher and diviner
than any theory which supposes them to
be the result of the fortuitous concur.
renee of atoms. Whence this intelli.
gence in nature? Whence these myriad
tongues that proclaim the spirit, the
life divine? To assert that the matter
which perishes, upon which | gaze. is
the ultimate reality is to deny voice to
nature and to declare that the supposed
voice OF nature is simply mental hal.
lucination of man.
Is NATURE AN ABORTION?
Such man must also deny sequel to
creation Nature points upward and
onward. Her language is upward
From the morning in which the scientist
tells US the fire mist began to revolve,
down to the day when upon the climax
OF the creative process man stood forth
in the image of God, there has been but
one voice in all this groaning universe.
That voice has cried onward and up-
ward. Shall this process, from the
fire mist with its divine commission to
bring forth life, up to man with the
power to walk from star to star, to
weigh worlds in the balance of his mind
shall this process turn to ashes in man?
Shall creation be wrecked in him? If so,
these centuries have been but centuries
of tragedy. The outcome OF nature has
been but an abortion, her end a catas.
trophe. 1t is unscientifc and preposter-
GUS to believe that such will be the end
OF this vast procession of the centuries.
If creation have a meaning, if the uni.
verse has within it intelligence, and if its
movement be within the bounds of rea-
son, then there must be a sequel to this
world in its incompleteness. There
must be a vaster world that shall be its
complement. To assert the reality of
matter is to deny this sequel to the
movement of the ages.
WHAT is THOUGHT?
Such a man must likewise deny the
reality of his own denial. He must DENY
reality to thought. When we have de-
clared matter to be the beginning and
the end, meaning by matter that which
is apprehended through the FIVE senses,
we have left out of consideration the
mental half Of the world. This is the
larger part of the world. We have left
it orphaned, unaccounted for. l en- have
made desperate attempt to erect ma
terial basis for thought. So far these
theories have simply been the jokes Of
the world of science. But even if we
suppose that there is a materialistic
theory that can account for the process
of thought, we have not solved the mys-
terry. Suppose that thought is the result
OF a disturbance of molecules in the gray
matter of the brain situated in the skull.
In this gray matter a big molecule
jumps up and seizes a club and attacks
anumber Of small molecules. A general
riot of molecules follows. The result is
that | think thought, all due to a dis
turbance of molecules, caused perhaps
by change in the weather. Sowe must
account for the phenomena of the men.
tai and spiritual world.
"a. MoLECULE, ESQ.,"
Up that flame girt height, in the front
of the battles fury, charges a hero, leaps
upon the enemy's ramparts, plants his
flag by their guns, calling to his men,
snatches victory from the jaws of a
flaming hell. That is to say, there was
a disturbance in the molecules in the
gray matter of this fellows skull. One
molecule got into a dispute with an
other molecule, his friends took it up,
there was general fight, and the result
was this man charged up the hill in this
curious manner and did this deed, due
to a disturbance of molecules in the
cavity Of the occipital bone.
A young man walks along the street
and sees young lady, seems suddenly
struck by an idea, he makes her &C
quaintance, follows her up, follows her
from day to day and week to week and
month to month, until at last he per-
suades her to go with him, and they
take house and they are man and
wife. That is to say, as he walked
along molecule leaps suddenly up
from one of the nervous ganglia, per-
haps at the back Of his neck or the
burr of his ear, and plunges into the
molecules at the base Of his skull.
There is terrible riot, and the result ia
he fell in love and married.
If this be true philosophy, it will be
necessary to write new history Of the
world, and it would of necessity be
written by A. Molecule, ESQ.