New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-15
SCIENCE AND RELlGlON'
THE REV. DIR. HILLS SPEAKS OF THEIR
GROWING FRIENDSHIP.
,r,,o,.r,, cpr-RCH VISITED BY THE REV. DR.
JOHN wATsoN-A SERMON ON Pfofh"
soR DRI-MMoND's WORK.

sOR DRUMMOND's WORK
The Rev Dr. John Watson. better known ~
country nv his pen name. Ian Maclsreh 49,,
tho morning service yesterday AT plymouth N'''
No one knew that he was present un'ii arc, 80.
service when he spoke TO Dr. Hiills anu "u'.o Ia
., o,ber nersons in the church DR.. watson YOU
DR. Hills and others with whom he cna.e 49,,
the first church he entered when ne re"o"'u a..
country was Plymouth Church. and tha' dc ~ Wv '
not expect to return 10 America again ne -, a.,
his mind to spend his last Sunday IN A"'ei
the old church OF which henry ""'N ~
for many years pastor. -
The Rev Drs Newell D. Hills ara Lyman ~
bott will among those who VIII s'ee' -
son at the reception az the Aldine 'uo inns -
Nom IN Manhattan Dr. Watson was NJ one u',
mentioned as a possible successor 10 III | "
the passionate Of Plymouth Church. 81.
7, h,s evening sermon DR. Hills continued M
series on Great Books and Great Authors t'
snecial subject was Professor Drummoho anu '"o
Dawn Of an Era OF Friendship Between 9c'enes s
end Religion He discussed the atheisuc anu
materialistc tendencies OF Some Vi ''e $50
lists and said in part;
Our age has been sadly injured by the warfare ,'He
between theology and science, r ,ha otritude OF
ansnies turning the world into a battie-feIo; ana
making life one long tournament ,hs Waterloo
~ Cbrstianity and preached the funeral setino"
OF the Bible and thousand IiineS no ~ The crave
ity but its enemy has gone the way OF 'ne e'"'0
yard.
GREAT MINDS DISAGREE
When A scientist fronts seer stralsht"ay me
sword nies from is scabbard and conversation
Incomes a tournament. When Darwin uropPeu al
lyle's "sartor Resartus" he exclaimed; II Is dl
n,stm When Carlyle laid aside Darwin's volume
.a ox ,,sinoed. ut Is all mud" You thests cannot
+binkl' asserts some Spencer. You scientists can
~. iro ar nra,-r' returns some Martineau. Pro
fessor Huxley asserted mat the bOe as With these
errors of science and history ana tas'9 arswer that
errors to which Mr. Gladstone makes dnSw Us,skes
hundreds OF years after Moses made ms m ,ae
as ~ the suns moving around the earth sclenusIs
were tea en- ng that the world rested on AZ -
plants 0aG6 and that the history biundeIs
Of scientists through me centuries "Uu'u tho ey-
80 ten times as thick the history OF the eN
nioded theories in the realm Of ethics and mora as
Never has the strife been 9 9e5eraidn In the
So5fb there is a custom called the feud which
o orsST Saf Often the occasion for end is un-
known. for 1t belongs 10 am I'M, ana edtua
warfare used make Impossible foe
i Logan ma sn sboc TS' had been left at home
in those days many religious teachers neIu ma ma
poitcs as well as a book of morals; that as yet
Scarcely six thousand summers had passSeu -,
Of or Adam and Eve were sober history rather than
inspiring parable and so far from me biU,e oT er
a hook Of progressive revelation, that II was W.
balv and literally the Book Of God. over aealnsIi
this group Of noGe Pudn hsrt Wn and free nstitu
lions stood the group Of men whose hio'e was '''e
book Of nature.
ENTHUSIASM Oi IRAN hEAoO->'
IN the first flush OF enthusiasm for the new gen
erazation everything was claimed for the lo'inu'a
Of evolution The early vagarIes Of those VINO were
intoxicated with the great discovery now seem al
most Incredible In those days men like professor
clifford bowed the infinite God out of His universe
and spelling the word force WIN tS Saos
holding the old views and the scientists hodlhg the
H and scS 5J who soo1 pronounced the old
theology and the new science alike untsna 51eco
cries Of geology il was asking too much of reason
10 believe that the earth was made In SIX days, or
citizens also felt that science taxed their credulty
TOO far In making the cod TO be the creator OF me
violet or a drop Of ooze from the swamp TO write
the Odyssey Had. Children reading the ara,
sisn sights may oe6'e rn s rdm bs magic lug
But wise men decline to believe that force with
capital F plan the wings of bird. the hues
Of violet. the beauty of babe. the poem or
GRAFTON OF sage or seer.
EVOLUTION. RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
At the moment when the thoughts OF were
busiest the relation OF religion and science Pro
fessor Drumm"nd published his first book, called
Natural Law I'm the Spiritual World" The
essence II this epoch making volume Is that evolu
tion is the supreme word for religion well as
science This young knight Of the new era be,
soul and Strength 9Th When IN the Venus de Milo Vas
unearthed by peasant poughng in the field men
genius was fully equal to such beauty. wrought
meath the mountains in the deep depths beyond
Orion and the Pleiades. Drummond saw the gar
ments OF unseen god the god Of unity and law.
and love.
Dr. Hills then ana!yzed and summed up Drum
rnond's works follows:
III Martin Luther and Bishop Butler at
strange hour II the good fortune OF Professor
Drummond 10 speak at one OF those psychological
moments when the world and expectant
waited for some prophet OF recorcia ton Not an
intellectual giant himself, it was given him 10
usher in an era Of friendship between giants hith
erto al enmity He taught The world that II
possible TO he rigid scientist and also sweet
hearted Christian With him character a
thousand times more than culture. and Christ's
words about the soul were infinitely more impor
tant than mans words about sticks. stones and
stars"