Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-17
Science and Religion.
observations Of a Philosophical Frien
of Ours
"omnia plena LOWS. Virgil.

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"Omnia plena LOWS. Virgil
Science, from it's own point of view,
| altogether human. Man. with his senses
| faculties. and judgment, is the grea
being that knows. and his knowing /
science; what he knows is knowledge
The proud man of science disdains tn
superna tural.
Science is preserved and kept in beinl
by means Of books. and by the continu
ance of the human race, the perpetuatior
OF the human mind. When the human
mind vanishes knowledge vanishes
Science has no existence of its own. Mar
breathes out his llfe and in that very
day his thoughts perish.
Religion is the wisdom that controls
the universe, the constitutional govern
ment Of God. The eternal God is it's au-
thor. and He is the power that keeps II
in being. il is His dominion.
Science is the light of the mortal. Re-
ligion is the light and life of the Eternal.
Science all depends on the uncertain, i'm
perfect, perverted powers and faculties
OF man. Religion is of God.
The will Of God and His Kingdom are
manifested in all the laws that govern
the universe. He is the centre OF the
system Of all systems. All things serve
Him. And the obligation of that SER
vice is religion. The laws that hold the
consultations in their places; that make
the planets to continue In their courses
around the sun; that keep the moon in
its orbit. and regulate the seasons; that
determine the action of heat, light, and
electricity; that fix the qualities and ma
ture of matter. are from the same source
and authority as the Ten Command
ments, and what we know as the fruits
OF the spirit. love, joy, peace, long suffer-
ing, gentleness, meekness, and faith.
Righteousness is the perfect obedience
of law, and the effect OF 1t is quletuess
and assurance forever-the Kingdom of
Heaven
Compared with this, Science is the
finite compared with the infinite. 1t is a
poor carpenter with his measuring line,
his saw, and his Ratchet, constructing
the Temple OF Solomon; or a comparison
infinitely more humiiating than that.
For his own nature It is a poor, blind,
perverted, disordered, ignorant being,
Man was made TO use all his senses
and perceptions and faculties: to de-
velop his Godlikeness. All his environ
ments educate him. cultivate. and en-
tighten him: and do him homage as the
heir of all things. But all this is as
the Son OF God. His best and highest
science and greatest power Is child's play
in the presenes of God.
What pity it IS that science cannot
DO reverent: and do its most honorabl
work, and acknowledge the everlasting
arms that are all around it? The devout
man of science delights in the words OF
the Psaimist:
or old hast Thou laid the foundations
OF the earth: and the Heavens are the
work OF Thy hands.
They shall perish. but thou shalt en-
dure: they all shall wax old as a gar
msnt, and as a vesture shalt Thou change
them and they shall be changed. But
Thou art the same: and Thy years shall
not fall.
And on the other hand he says: When
consider tho Heavens. the work of Thy
hands, the moon. and the stars that
Thou hast made what is man that Thou
art mindful of him. or the son of man
that Thou regardest him? Just now
King: and now a clod and module of
COMPOUNDED royalty.