The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-02

condensed into comparatively brief
period.
! On the earths surface locomotives
| have attained q maximum speed such
| that We're continuous land line around
| the earth possible the circuit could be
made, at that speed, in less than twelve
days. Yet the General Court of Massa-
chusetts voted in Colonial times for the
construction of highway twelve miles
westward from Boston, that being as
far ESQ the act recited) into the wilder
ness as any one would ever wish to go.
A responsible contractor made for
NAL bid to furnish the United States
with torpedo boat having a guaran-
teed speed of forty knots per hour. The
steam turbine has driven vessel thirty
| five knots per hour.
Telegraphy without the use of a wire
is now in practical operation
Telegraphy by the Sine system has
reached the astonishing rate of one
| hundred and eighty thousand words
per hour, or thirty times as rapidly as
an orator speaks. Yet the message be-
ing written is conveyed with small la
bility or error.
The partial array of physical achieve
ments already presented produces diff
| fering effects on men.
| One effect is to render his proud, i'm
| pertinent toward God, inclined to defy
nature (spelling it with a large NJ and
| to seek to lay his hand rudely on the es-
sence of things in the hope that he is
near the secret of life and power by
means of intellectual apprehension
alone.
| Is man inclined to unbeliaf in God,
| to carelessness in morals? II so, to
work with the secret powers of God
! does not necessarily give him reverence,
| He proceeds to declare that Jesus ac-
complished His cures by a deeper knowl-
edge of physics than His contemporaries
possessed; he proceeds to ridicule all
miracles that s. EN- to him beyond a ply
steal explanation As to the others he
is ready to try like the Egyptians to do
the same with his entertainments. 1t is
whispered that one of our most notable
inventors is Goddess and the irreligious
or non-religious position of some bioo-
gists is pretty well known.
On the other hand there is an effect of
physical progress wider better, grand
er, an effect which l think is produced
on most minds. 1t is to deepen rever-
ence, to render faith easier, to quicken
our hopes in the splendor Of the worlds
destiny and to lead us to discern the
wisdom, power and grace of God in
every unfolding of knowledge.
We perceive this effect in such mes
sages as flew first over the Atlantic
cable: What hath God wrought" We
are compelled to grapple with the forces
of the world, to learn where they fit in
the scheme of eternal truth, and to
point out to men our faith and the
reasons for it.
/. We can see that men are handling
agencies so mighty, so sudden in action
so delicate in adjustment, that only a
well balanced, clean nature should dare
have to do with them. As no drunkard
can enter the kingdom of heaven so
none can hold his hand on the throttle
of the locomotive or the electric switch
board A frame mistaken by sin, a
heart unafraid of death, eyes and hands
that show no wavering must be furn-
ished for dealing with the powers of the
air. The heritage of a pure blooded an
cestry is demanded of men who intend
to do great works In scientific line. The
boy who is passionate, tickle or lacking
diligence cannot go out to control the
mysterious elements of the latter day
physicist. All that Jesus was-of cam
dor, persistency, fearlessness, sacrifice
are required in phyics as well as reli-
gion. Here religion touches, indeed be-
comes necessary to hhpsics.
g Aside from the sublime mystery of
the Trinity I know of no religious belief
stranger, more elusive, than the COM
municaton Of power without wire or
even with wire, When any man can
tell you why bodies attract one another;
when he can say why the touch of a
magnet will give an object a positive
and negative pole then it is time for him
to ask you why God permitted sin in the
world.
When he explains how the comblna-
ton of two chemicals-each harmless in
itself produces a rank poison think we
shall be ready to tell him how sin dulls
the faith In prayer.
And should he know how the addition
of small per cent of carbon or nickel |
to steel vastly increases its strength, |
thin I shall know how a man with no |
sin like Jesus can heal a maniac child |
when all the disciples-and good men, |
too-could not do it.
We find ourselves surrounded by mys- |
terry whether we look lleavenward or |
earthward. And it is a truth Of peculiar
that among almost all |
physical discovery, men simply learn
that certain things happen. but are no
further than they ever We're to knowing