St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-09

| may give. llaye no antagOnlSnl with
| science, and need hardly say that: /
have no fear of science. | want to tell
you as simply as | can what l think is
| the truth in the bottom of this. l have
| no fear OF scenes because have moth
ing out in the street to be harmed. Ii L
have anything that you cali hurt by run
ming over it, you are welcome to hurt it.
| Yet science is to me, in many sides OF it,
wonderful, and l have a great admira-
| ton for the great scientists ill their
work. They are set with us to
Keep the Garden.
| That order was given to the whole
company of the children of Adam, and.
we have made poor job of it. Where
we should have had fruit trees and har-,
| vests we have thorns and thistles; and
we have spent more time beating each
| others heads than we have in beating
down these thistles. We have poorly,
kept the garden. and while those neil
| OF science may not come near enough to
| the mansion to hear the music and to-
see the hilarity and the glory of the
great festivities and rejoice in the smil-
ing countenance of the Father, yet they
are OH the plantation; they are subdu-
ing some parts of the estate; they are.
cutting down the trees and Stumping
| GiO iOto yOHuci. anu uii IIOb NllliuS W
club them off. Let them cut the stump.
| We will follow them and SOW the good
seed where they make the soil ready.
Whenever scientist comes up to new
door and "opens it, as best l can IN a.
| busy life run after him and go in and
see what he has found, for | know that.
! at most he has but opened another
apartment in the great mansion which,
my Father has given me. So am not
anxious about him, and yet he must not
put himself i'll such shape, even in eX-
ceptonal cases, as to poison our lltera-
| ture and make much of our intellectual
food that which is calculated to strangle
our spirituality.
| l know when | talk to men about the
| fact that God can come into our lives,
| into my life and your life, so as to be
| factor among my motives and q king
| over them all, and more than that, to
| come in with a teaching and guiding
| hand; and more than that, to come i'll
with his sleeve to His elbow and His
| hand closed to make a broad way for me
| by the power of His almighty ARM if it
| shall be necessary, then, when | reach
that point, am met by storm of
| terms, such as laws of nature. aud
| principles of action. and rules of
I order, and principles of life,
and great host of other
| terms that may be gathered
up and tied with the single band the
| laws of nature; and l do not object to
| your talking to me about the laws of
! nature. only [ do want you should know
| what you mean. | have seen young men
who were unable to do so much as grow
| fair -mustache [laughterl, actually
| posing themselves on their sins and
| conceitS, and saying they would not ac-
| cept the order of the Son of God be
| cause, forSooth, they had some law OF
nature that directed them; putting
| away their obligations when, to save
their immortal souls, they could not dis
| tinctly tell what they mean by law Of
nature. All | object to is that you
| should practice fallacy upon your
| selves and upon your friends and upon
| your neighbOrs.
| have belief that we are, as rule,
handled by great laws that run through
ages; that we are, indeed, in the midst
| Of the mighty and steady movements
of Gods patient and persistent pur-
poses. Generation after generation
sinks down into the grave, but these
| great forces move Oh and on. And,
more than that, | do not see how a
moral government could be established
over any people that were not under
| these laws, because they could find no
field for their intelligence. 1t is be
cause we are handled by far-reaching
laws that we can see them OF discover
them and then use them. We know
when and how to plant our seed and
when to expect the far-Otf spring; we
know, indeed, how, by the use of our
intelligence, to handle ourselves in the
midst of these laws, which we could not
do but for the laws. So we shall have
no trouble at that point. They are not
only fact. but they are the best that
could happen to us, and they are a ne
! cesSity for our Well-being and neceS-
Sity for the maintenance of a race over
which could be established moral
government.
More than this. Personally it seems
to me wonderful thing to get hold of
the laws of nature. like sometimes In
nv thought to take hold of the law OF
gravity and feel of it a little and push
out to right and left and see how it will
operate. Away yonder, along the
diameter of the non-univerSe, and yon-
der and according TO the great Drin
ciples He has established already, L find
myself on a train that, running mile
minute and without stopping can run
one hundred and fifty trillions of cen
turtles right on and make only one trip
through the diameter OF the non-unl.
verse, and am glad L live in so big an
establishments; and | like to stop out
Wonder, about a hundred trillions of
centuries of travel from here, and feel of
the law of gravity and feel that it holds,
but then | know that am still under
the administration of my Great Father,
and that | am not out of His reach nor
beyond His care. 1t is to me great
comfort that am thus also in the midst
of these wonderous laws.
But they are not enough, l must have
something else. There comes upon me
the unexpected (which always hap
pens" The little openings here, this
little window at my right that looks out
upon eternity. suddenly swings around
open and a coffin is shot into my home.
1t is a sad hour and sad fact. 1t does
not comfort me to tell me that it is a
great law of nature by which this one
was smitten. That Door widow who
weeps over the body Of her husband
that has been washed from the wreck
is not comforted by being told that it is
a great law of nature that winds should
blow and seas should beat; she wants
something more than that. SO do you.
And the part of my nature that de-
mandS something more than that is as
much q part of me as that other part
that is glad to feel the wide reach of
these laws; and am, as an intelligent
being, unwilling to accept the theory
concerning the administration of this
universe that leaves OUT, unaccounted
for, large per cent of the facts in the
case. L want something more than
merely that; must know that there is
an intelligent, thoughtful, ordering
mind above it and back of it that loves
me infinitely and never forgets, and
then, though [ cannot see, can endure
and walt.
The Great Combfner
| But, to come little closer, those laws
that may trouble some of you little.
will only stay moment with them.
Exactly what do you mean? l will tell
you one thing that possibly you think
you mean, but which you do not. The
sun rose this morning and yesterday
morning and the day before; that is, [
suppose it did, and it has been rising
for countless ages, and nobody here, IN
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