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SCIENCE AND RELIGION
NOT OPPOSING FORCES

| 'Science and Religion was the theme of
! discourse Of the Reverend Doctor 5. Sale
at Temple Shaare Emeth yesterday. lie said
IN part:
The conflict between religion and science,
about which 50 many books have been writ
ten, and Of which we hear 30 much. even
in our OWL day. is altogether imaginary
2 and unnatural. and wherever IT does exiS.
il IS due TO a faulty conception, either ~
the scientist or the champion Of reilsl1h. as
| to what constitutes the legitimate realm OF
! the one and the other.
! "Of the two. the domain OF religion is
! much the wider and should properly Include
| science. art and politics; and. IN fact, every
! thing that touches and appertaIns 10 human
! lie. fl is the divinely touched and re-
/ Iigous nature of man. according 10 tho
teaching OF Judaism. ou, Of which all the
! higher and noblcr aspirations come, anu
! the least of these is certainly not me IN
satiable hunger after truth. the reaching
| out after n fuller and profounder knowledge
/ OF man and the universe. The search after
/ the hidden things Is Il part Of the religious
| endowment of the human mind. Just
much the necessity FOR moral anu
aesthetic culture. and the ideal man Is he
in whom all these three attributes OF human
nature ar. most fully developed and inter
penetrated.
man Of science. and the self-denial. which
makes him consecrtte his days and nights
to her service. are the prompting of his
religious nature, just as much rs are tht
good deeds Of that man who has conquered
his selfish inclinations. who has not yielded
To the allurements Of self-induigence. but
walks in the pathway OF duty and right.
A~corting to my faith the human mind IL
bathet In the sunlight of divine love and
wisdom. II is but the imaG. ~ the all-soul.
and therefore I cannot understand what
men mean when they speak Of an antas"n-
ism between th" natural and necessary
manifest ations Of the human soul. ot
strife between religion and science.
,..,rrE Of religious faith. certain ,iocmas and
rit,S and the results of science, but in the
very ture Of things there can be no ennii-
" between eternal essentials OF religion
an he Truths of science. Those dogma IL
religions which own as their fundamental
veritIes notions than which nothing more
rep;.naut to reason and common sense can
hc imagined. may justly quail hefor. tn" re-
suits % exact research. hut the religion OF
our prophets has never had any cause 10
regard the sciences with alienation. nay. IL
has always regarded them as its strongest
ally. Judaism has never set interdict on d
free thought. and its fundamental princi-
pies which are as broad. deep and elastic .
as human nature. have always invited and
encouraged the greatest possible latitude III
trrmbed 1T the disclosures of the boldcst re-
search. and since into It's essential conStitu- D.
tion there enters no element opposed to ret- 3
son. 1t halls every discovery of the exact !
sciences as the subiimcst revelation.
destined to break down the obstacles and .
partition walls OF seCtarian prejudice and .
ingrained superstition. which usnrp the
name of religion, and stand In the way q: .
the incoming of the grand ideal of its :
the federation of all men. not on ,
the basis of dogma, but on the solid fouHda-
ion OF justice. righteousness and love.
AS a decisive proof that there Is no en-
nifty between the enlightened faith Of the.
Jew and the sciences. we can point almost
10 the entire past history of our people |
need not refer you only to tho Middle
Ages. When they. together with the Moham-
InedJnS. were the most Jealous deyotceS of !
the arts and sciences. when they cultivated
astronomy and mathematics, botany and
became The purveyors OF Greek
10. European civilization and ,
travelled through and around the known ard !
the unknown world by charts which they
themselves had made. | need not. | say re-
call these patent facts. I can point YOU to
the very first chapter of the Bible itself as
Il demonstration of my proposition hat
there IL no conflict between religion and
science. ] do not mean to say that the
statements contained in that chapter do |
coincide with the results Of modern science |
rr can he made. by any means. tn harmon
Ze with them. On the contrary. | am |
thoroughly convinced that il is an idle and |
a bootless task to attempt any such recon- |
citation, and yet l say that the very pres !
pnce Of that chapter in the Bible is the |
strongest proof of the perfect compatibli- |
iy of religion and science. of course we |
must not look at the Bible through specta- |
cles of orthodox theology nor regard il in |
the light in which it was viewed long |
lime after il was complied. but We must at |
tempt to understand i'm its own light and |
apply ;o ii the cancns of criticism which We |
Employ in studying any other literary her
tagc.
'Over the portal that leads TO the sanctu-