The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-08-19
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ie '&t Hl-~eeoe-aas Eisa % p ate q ven u b a&&- foay * The fSea
:a1. JAS Ia there a@ ge--a. - CONSTITUTED z1l-z-y that iey are unab4e
.fo gnee5Fe 4 Ate-F sToesa il d@1aoes q sw. and ~Ba therefore ~hen
: twT ~ani = a3 particularly frs, re~-t ,e dl--6erfy ro8e1 q ere Kind
r aa@fh@r - tts-s Hs ,b@e-jn -1ea greater aunse--to ~bom natnrsl
Aw ~en- e. fnte3@zaa1 trrGn1y tra vhhh auy esaFe IL waaeaa Ths
v i1sf te " To- TeEk~gAF 4 ~-sZz1 Christian ~seDa= a dAua9n
"a5@ to-asT - ,laginr have VIII The llte1ezs Il ,basands9 presumably
sns Ez1 waZ-zeansag ge--cs
TIE grsa; heassg 43 zg-1, 4 th,izEaa 4aeooc 30 the eye~ n is der-
lets 81 Thai il &@r@. tbe ihang thai j. ~ ad s4aies The ,hinr that j. Ii
hs s. EsEs rr3agaE rDoe~gn. % lat an a Erzvtaaoo AID lev oths
rrsmarr u.sgzan. a ,r5s-s,.v Ia . .s-3 ~ x.rr !, sdv;,., ~, $50.
iH5ari@ - t3e onhy frame n! HzTarr a-frtg ard en5@trvr life Tia,
a -s1 ea1nes wax H5thoat hs hgs ~ 3D. mach a+sa5 thinking sith9ut his
h=&& are Ers.~ithas whieh II has PIT Et s@n 81 Nay 70 osufa,: but it
l4ss- it, rer@uss o1 tire sg-sem # rEbe ttlag. By comprehensive denial,
2 L 1rf II matters oaE . ntte }@s lDdEszuts5e- 1t ~sratuuy refp~~ 10
rs2s1ts IEHn % fu~T51rz3 Irregularities n ar k5Bd- Fevar.. indbr-sR1,.
iz1aG@a-S27> and tbs whae trie 4 maa5E, ~hnh challenge the pbys.
'%@ az AsFe % f2an2atlo1 70 reality, abd 9MF naa3 tote Suitably ignored
#1 er3s 20 u gut o Eight II lab q "a ooald only hare paauted himself
II tae chrszEss-~aeos pin, Of view. he omd have got nd q hi. bol. in
s5"T af1@t- ant Errhapr SAVED himself trn the iBte-ninsbe and not over.
en@rt1 1--1a-~- Il his t-eads The great rsana5y. - recommended 10
Gar Z c1rstis- s1eacz erc5e~ = nf to 1hink about t1e~ tbings at an. and
ID 1a- TOE eaa1@t think hard ea1rh. To -1t f- a eari.tian--cenoc ade1t
bo hr Fo1- TIE S5eft sill thea, wth cheerful apo enthusiastic mendac.
#lF- IataI T- that rc haveui aaF pain. tina, pu haven't aDr fau. that
#Tu aarer AR ,begus,5s. or -as.taa o. u}s,sr@- =. r1r 49, -
s1'29 yaot rU@t2ly 70 te azetad pa1. VIII e1eZsin: WHY, that isn't
F1: tasts 3 mere Ea~ q mstte,-e2uEe- mstter-aad yu are a soul, a
Firt f"a "2znt TO rue your matter and not let yoaI natter rule you.
TIL . a@at IL the proceedings al which the faith Of the sufferer j. ONE
Hn+' ~FFfey i#d Gases have be6 known in which. breaking iute Ian
g2&se D4tA@' whaIy edrlaa1 n. r-rfs-v scientific. the rsrient h.. L.
lA'o@o 10 DIR ~hT, II il wasn't hin-eVen grammar may D. sacrificed in
Ines @-s-s1se>-As @s'l.2 u enduring >acA ab7uiaabe t9rture. oa sc-
711t q ii: ADD ~ Ia date the satisfactory aa.wer q clri.,is1 ~1eDee +,
tEst particular question has not be@n to-mulatei.
Gre T@Gle . fac, hosereE, that they thoroughly eumy and ,bcr will
nafe gr@a. sacrifices for it. l,sing peaa1. under circumstances which
you'd te~t the goo hanr even Of Marx TapfY. Here is where the chris
iB1 -@@1ust, MAJ Sometimes ~mye: t9 god shirts are ca-si,1 h-h
Fg91T@rtlr and q remedial agency If ne mean valua In yaytou. nbvscai
Iv1he- Thj- j. The one grain M truth in their bu>hel Of noDSn.e On
's 9ios. hand thg On widespread and serious moral mischief by promoting
lhs tad habit u Ignoring tacts We have heard If the Ease Of d christian.
- @n'l'D "H S@2e1 10 /" - a chd whose head was covered
will q harIetic g option. declared, while l"kins steadily at the bead. tina,
ae osQl3 not 81 any eruption. a little eh who By aociden, had u, her
4a19 d ~1hA somewhat objected to having it bound up by the teacher.
giving a. her reason that her parents were christian Silence +" 1t certain.
u . latnentah3e that, in addition to all the other influence. which tend to
"easen the ~n~e tor truth and fast, there should have sprung UP a SCALED
religious society which places a winful blindness 10 fact at the foundation
81 it, creed and practice Surely that kind Of thing does not need encour-
agement or cultivation.
Meantime. wisdom is crying aloud. Science has revealed itself as
helper and guide of mankind, and, in reply to all questioning Of its claims.
points to the words it has wrought. They are they. - it may say. which
testify of me-" The essential and peculiar mark Of science is thai il i.
nonsn no fact. Hold thou the fact" might be taken for its motto. It
holds the fact it wrestles with it till it yields a blessing. The individual
scientific thinker, honest though he be, may ignore a fact. may turn aside
evidence that ought to command his attention: but, in o far as he
does this, he is unfaithful to the mandate Of science. The fact. however
atdes; and science, through some other of her servants, or rerhaps later
through this very one will take it up and make it yield its meaning Sci.
ence has all truth for its domain. and for that reason there can be but one
science. To apply to science such an epithet as christian" involves a to.
tI misunderstanding Of what science is. Science can do no more than in.
yestigate all truth, nor can it, consistently with its essential nature. do less
In the matter, however, Of relieving human suffering and prujonpipp
human life, what is the record: The record s that since s.eDre obtained !,
secure footing in the world it has been steadily making better conditions of
life for mankind; that it has almost extripated certain diseases and greatly
the virulence of others; that its nunhvactic aha5 -
to epidemics that used periodically to scourge the most civilized nations ara
proved and signal efficacy; and that by the means IF anastbetics and mil.
septNs II las aSuased an absolutely incalcuable amount of human anguish.
. writer n a recent number of The Nineteenth Century, describing N
progress OF medicine and surgery during the last sixty years, quotes an a.
given by a distinguished physician Of his " eynererns in p,dr
gong a surgical operation beforet the days of ana>tb>ia The nass,,o il;
painful one, but we shall be pardoned. we hope. for repro1urnr il ~ u
very pertinent to the occasion:
"f tn agony occasioned will say nothing. Suffering ~ preat as 7
underwent cannot be expressed in words and thus fortunately can nat h. ,.
The particular pangs ire now forgotten: but the black hirxi,d ~,
the horror of great darkness an. the n of deser,ior hv Cod md
bordering close upon despair, which swept through nv mind and ovor.
shelnaea my heart, can never forget, however gladly would do 50
The days OF anasthesa a patient preparing for an migration WAS liz
eohoehud crlhlha preparing or execution. He counted the dsys until
he appointed day came. He counted the hours of that day tin the ar.J,,
u h"r came lie listened Tor the echo OF the street of the surpec, ;, arr
&C. he watched To- his pull at the door-bil: for his foot IN rs stairs ,,
step IN the room; for the production of his dreaded inst rprar,. ,or ~
grave words ana MS last preparations before beginning. And thu, bs
uirenoered ms liberty and revolving at The necessity. submitted IN ~ hold
rpDahd ana heipesslT gave himself up to The cruel knife"
Less than nifty years ago these wered daily experiences and uhu,.a -,
come: From and hruspocus specuatiohs upon mind and 49,.
I run any "okihg away from phenomena and trying to dHtnieve ,mm ant
sHNpce; No. III ron assuming the reality If phenomena and rin.ns
mate'th agent 10 bear on q physical condition. True. tbeoro,ic,a L..
"s we're iaseo 10 III new and most beniHcsnl extepslap If medical se a
u IL "oufdh 'e taken more theology than was contained in an ~ oa
u max the world renounce the new hope thus tenderod ,o,
wv II further progress is desired, can any sane apd h,,os, u.
rect'on In which it is to be sought? What science ha. ,no :, ~
st Of what lit will yet do All that il neodu5 "a ~
..A. ,.. -" ""' ~ neeoeo IS . patient following out OF
ethod the first of which ka careful measuring ,na
cts as they are-in order to reach forward tn nj, ,su,
" VI possible good. We M,