The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11
SCIENCE AND PROVIDENCE
POINTS FROM DIR. ALBERT SHAW's
ADDRESS AT NOBLESVILLE.
The Monroe Doctrine and the Punish
ment of spain-Many Meetings
Held by EndeavOrers.

early contamination of peace. In nearly
every church where the proclamation had
suggested the topic of the sermon, special
music of patriotic character was rendered
many of the services closing with the hymn
America
President Mckinley, as usual, attended
the morning services at the Metropolitan
NJ. E. Church. He went alone to the church
and was deeply impressed by the fine dis
course delivered by the pastor, the Rev.
Frank Bristol, D. D. The church was
crowded long before the services began.
Scores of persons remained standing
throughout and many more went away I'M
able to gain admission. Dr. Bristols sermon
held the attention of his auditors from the
first sentence to the last At times his hear
ers were so thoroughly aroused by his pa
triotic utterances that ripples Of sponta-
neous applause swept over the congrega-
tion His text was:
20 sing unto the Lord a new song, for
lie hath done marvellous things; His right
hand. and His holy arm hath gotten Him
the victory. Psalm SO.
1.-THE poets and heroes whose songs and
deeds made the old time Splendid said
Dr. Bristol, were pure enough of heart and
large enough of brain to be able to find
There is no chance no accident, no fate.
Law is universal. The more scientific peo-
pie become the stronger will be their belief
and trust in Providence and the less con-
fidence will they have in luck, accidental
chance and the other absurdities. In the
days of mans ignorance the providential
was looked upon as the miraculous and the
miraculous as the providential. But with the
1n 1f,-,1
comes obsolete and unnecessary
while Providence becomes more evil
dent and prominent in human affairs. There
was time when the greatest philosophers
did not know that steam had been provided
as a motive power to serve man:
that electricity had been provided
for multitude of utilities. The Greeks did
not know that more than seven metals had
been provided for the arts, while this age
knows that from fifty to sixty have been
provided The ancients never dreamed that
these had been provided in the economy
OF nature, the possibilities of gunpowder
and dynamite, the possibilities of a modern
navy and the possibilities of Manila and
Santiago victories by which America doth
take accession by the hand and make the
bounds of freedom wider yet
GOD WITH SCIENCE.
1t is science or knowledge that brings
US In touch and alliance with Providence
The more science, the more Providence
fes' the more science, the more God in the
worlds history. The providential does not
always meet nor even imply the miraculous
God may work his will by the agencies of
the laws OF nature and the thoughts of men
We Should not quarrel with the elegant old
md
ways on the side of the ablest navigators >
for the ablest navigators know how IN rsa
the winds and waves and are in league with
the mighty laws that govern things. cod
Is on the side of good, favoring good finan-
ciering, good politics, good battle ships.
good discipline, good guns, good generalship
ana good causes. In the olden time
men and nations allied themselves with
providence by faith; to-day men
and nations ally themselves with Provi-
ldence by knowledge. There was a time
when the people found nature in sympathy
with their struggles for freedom, and the
storm overthrow the Egyptians in the sea
ana the sun and moon stood still in the day
OF battle to give a righteous cause a good
chance, and the stars in their courses
fought against Cisera.
What does all this mean? Was God
teaching man the necessity of mastering the
elements and forces of nature and by yok-
ing them to his purposes? Was He teach
ing that he who has the laws of nature on
his side wins, and that he who contends
against the right fights against the stars
against the law and order and very consti-
tuition of things and must fail? Is this
then, less providential age than the age
of Moses? Is the electric light less proyi-
Dental than the pillars of fire? Is a Da-
kota wheat harvest less providential
than a shower of mama? Is a South Caro-
lima cotton crop less providential than the
quails of the wilderness? Are the orange
groves of California less providential
than the vineyards Of old Eschol? Was
the discovery of America less providential
than the finding of Canaan? Was the com
ing of the pilgrims and Huguenots less
providential than the exodus of the chill
dren of Israel? Was the Declaration of In
dependence less providential than the Deca-
logue of Small? Were the guns Of Dewey
ard Sampson less providential than the
rams horns of Joshua, the lamps and pitch
ers of Gideon or the rod of Moses? Were
Manila and Santiago less providential in
the history of human freedom than Jericho
and All? Is Christian civilization less provi-
THE PEOPLE OF TO-DAY.
''If God ever had peculiar people He has
them now. They are the product of all the
struggles and aspirations of the past. The
men who stand before Santiago are not the
product of day or of century. They are
the rich consummate flower of the ages the
highest evolution of history. They repre-
sent manhood that climbed century by
century up the steps of light and liberty
and now stands in sight of the glorifed
SUBMITS of the universal freedom and the
universal brotherhood of man. The men
who offer their lives on liberty's holy altar
to-day caught their inspiration from the
men who fought for their convictions in our
civil war; and those great men of our civil
war had heard of the revolutionary heroes
and We're proud to emulate their deeds of
patriotic valOr; but the men of the revolu-
ton had inherited the spirit OF the Pilgrim
father and were determined to prove them
selves. worthy of their noble Sires: the
Pilgrims had the mantles of the reformers
resting upon their broad herculean shout
ders; and the reformers remembered with
reverence the martyrs; and the martyrs had
seen the apostles: and the apostles had
touched the Christ There is your Provi-
dence in history. Do you look toward
Manila and Santiago and say superior guns
did the business? / say superior men stood
behind the schools, and God. the Supreme,
son of Providence. The miracle workers to-
day are our educators, the men and women
who are giving US an intellectual mastery