The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-02
AT DWIGHT PLACE CHURCH
1NIER ESTING SERMON PREA CHED
BYREV. MR.. NUTTING, ID. ID.

Progress 10 Christianity" Was tho
subteot-An Exceedingly Able Dis
course.
Rev. Wallace Nutting, D. D., of Prov
idence. r. l.. preached at the Dwight
Place church last Sunday evening in
exchange with the pastor, Rev. Dr.
Leete. His evening sermon was as fol-
lows:
Relations Of physical progress to
Christianity
The devil is no longer to be regarded
as the father of inventions. The ac"
celeration of physical progress in our
century is an unparalleled world mr.
acle. Such acceleration must have deep
Significance, and if there be truth in
Christianity, deep religious signlil-
canoe. What are some of the results of
recent physical progress?
BY way of extending the physical fac
uties of the body, the eye has been
made able to perceive, on screen, the
motions of the speaker, in hall loeat-
ed thousand miles from the observer.
The stars and planets have been
brought so many thousand times nearer
the earth by the telescope that it is no
longer to be regarded a wild dream that
we may learn whether the physical feat
ures of Mars show proof of inhabitants;
and If so, the possibility of communica-
ton by flashes capable of arousing their
attention would speedily prove study.
The miscroscope has enabled us to dis
Germ the germ forms. noxious or benef-
cent that Turk in a drop of water, and
by the culture of these forms some of
the most benefcent discoveries of the
age have been made.
BY a kind of light, popularity called
the X-ray we are able to observe by
the eye the very heart of man. and to
demonstrate to child that so-called
solid substance is diaphanous.
The ear can hear the voice electrically
communicated, half across the Ameri-
can continent and that In ordinary
daily transactions.
By the discovery that sound is COM
municable through the bones of the
head many persons hitherto unable to
hear well by the ear, now hear with
ease, by the use of the audiphone placed
against the teeth. By the microphone
the sound Of a fly's walk can be heard
as far as the telephone Is used and by
the megraphone the voice is projected
and increased.
The power of touch can control ma
chinery as far as the electrical battery
makes its influence felt over the wires.
The machinery of an entire nation could
be so arranged as to be controlled by
one person from central office. The
power itself can be conveyed profitably
from cataracts to distant cities.
Every organ of the human body, ex-
cept the heart, has been successfully
operated upon a portion of the brain
has been removed; the entire stomach
has been excised; the intestine has been
spliced The exact location of a for
eign substance in the body can be as
certained by the X-ray.
Aceptic surgery is able to prevent in
fiamamtion in most cases, even those of
a grave nature,
Not only has the use of anesthetics
made 1t possible to perform capital OPP
eratiOns without pain to the patient |
but the mixture of oxygen with the
anesthetics can now give a full supply |
to the lungs, and by rendering a small |
err quantity of chloroform necessary, de-
crease the poisonous after effects of
that drug.
Local anesthetics can in many cases |
be substituted for those that deprive
the patient of consciousness.
incubation has made possible the |
eradication of one terrible disease and |
probably several
1t is well known that anger in a
nursing mother will poison the foun-
tain whence her child is sustained.
Experiments have demonstrated that |
evil passions are accompanied by the
secretion in the stomach of poisons
varying in composition and malignity
with the kind or degree of passion.
The soliditiication Of air is CONNER
cially carried on. The product, although
condensed into a space many times less
than ordinary, exerts no pressure. On
assuming its natural volume it causes
cold so great that we have no we'll
known basis of comparison The posi-
bilities suggested by the use Of solid air
or other gases, which are also suscepti-
BILE Of similar treatment, are too wide
and alluring to permit further allusion
here.
Chemical combinations of the more
ordinary substances, like air and water
have been found to take place in
weights represented by simple whole
numbers The late Professor Josiah
Cook of Harvard university has pub
1ished volume, largely based on this
simple method of calculation, entitled
'The Credentials of Science the War
rant of Faith"
So rapidly does even a minute guam
tity of matter interpenetrate matter
that if the finger be touched to certain
substance and then touched to the
tongue the substance will be diffused
the body in ten minutes so that
a wire passed across the forehead will
bring out the substance showing a
black line
The remarkable discovery is now well
established that gases netrpenetrate
one another in such a way that to
given volume of@one gas may be added
a like volume of another without in
creasing the space occupied by the first,
and this process may proceed by the
addition of many gases without en-
larging the space occupied. In other
words when a vessel is filled completely
with one gas, as much of another gas
can be added to the vessel as if it were
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