The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-01-13

| tions the laws OF nature. the laws OF
the universe, the eternal laws OF God
Search in your heart--it ia there
Search In the bowels of the earth--it Is
there. Turn your eyes To the glitteting pa
| geant OF the heavens-it Is there.
Ia IL any wonder then that there are
| times when anarchy aud lawlessness rule
when men turn for relief 90 some source
and seek liberty. when the soul seeks to
take wing and soar and be free2
When the individual stops and recalls
the fact that he Is bound by a custom
| TINT oft-timcs calls by social rules aud
| regulations that frequently arc allen 10
| his life. by habit that IS fixed and SEEM
| ingly immutsble, by character that
changes and transforms all the clrcum-
stances Of his life, ! say when a man re-
| calls by how many chains he is bound "a
no longer seems strange 10 him that men
yearn for freedom or that they worship
| In the shrine and temples where freedom
! IN the past has found voice.
AS nation knowing once the shackles
OF a law that was unjust Il Is not strange
| that we delight TO go up To the battlefield
OF Senlac. where Harold and his soldiers
spilled their blood in behalf Of their
! rights as men.
lt IL not strange that the outcasts of
foreign lands, fleeing the plains Of Siberia
or the crueltles Of Turkey and coming to
our shores, make pilgrimages 10 Bunker
mn diih 'ftiAN ShuIB. ii ~ no ulhfNfl lndl
England delights To- tell how the Great
Charter of English liberties was wrung
from King John. The Declare ton Of ln-
! dependence and the Emancipation Proc
| lama tion do not belong 10 America alone
but 10 every nation that has felt the iron
heel OF despotsm. The flames that burn
ed a Z Smthheld will live In history with
the burning bush. Always I'm the history
OF Calvin there will be one black letter
day and that the day when he heaped the
blazing fagots about the limbs Of. the
before unknown, but now immortal. Ser
vetus.
Always will those men be called sa-
Viours, who have died for the cause OF
men whose hands or whose hearts were
bound. We may forget our national his
tory but We shall never forget Lincoln.
FREEDOM or WORSHIP.
We may forget the philosophy OF
Greece but We shall not let pass into oh
livion the name OF Socrates Human
history may pass into obscurity. but hu-
manity's representative at the cross. Je-
ssus Christ. will live. so long as men love
liberty. Truly We may say that there
has been advance just in so far AS men
nave become more free To act, free 10
think, free 10 feel and believe and wor-
ship according 60 the dictates of their
Great is the triumph OF freedom now i'm
this day in this land where men are al
lowed TO speak forth their conception of
truth, OF revelation and Of God. without
laying themselves liable 20 the anathema
of pope, OF council. OF church and shame
aud dishonor will soon be written after
the mans name who is allowed that priv
iege and does not use H.
Law on the one hand. liberty on the
other. Both coming up through the ages
with giant stride. Both signs OF deVel-
opment and advance. Both sought after
and demanded. but in the minds OF mill
lions eternaiy opposed, and n I'm reality
they stand in opposition then we may
say that the deepest yearning OF the soul,
the yearning for liberty, will never be
satisfied. IL law is opposed 90 liberty
we shall always he slaves
our bondage shall grow greater and
greater, for year by year and century by
century We are coming more and more
under the regime or law Man can not
escape 1t. one may flee the laws OF ma
tions. but not the law that makes the
planets track their former course. one
may escape the law of society but no
man can escape those Fundamental laws
OF God imbedded in the human soul
Law we cannot escape, liberty we will
not cease 10 strive after aud when We
look back over the pages OF history and
see two streams OF tendency both sought
after because both administer To human
welfare we may conclude that they are
not opposed 10 one another. ON the con
trary that they administer TO one another
and the fulhlmeut Of the one Is found in
tho increase and enlargement OF the
other.
The opposition will usually be- not in
the principles themselves. but i'm mems
Interpretation OF those principles Sci
ence and theology during the past 81
years have been supposed by many TO
stand in opposition.
No intelligent man. however. believes
that there is any final conflict between
the search for truth and the search for
and the better understanding OF God.
True science and true theology mus
only when one or the other extends its
operation beyond its true field OF in
quiry and encroaches upon the others
domain
When the scientist extends -trt1c-
tions i'm physic or chemistry TO the whole
sphere OF life. the common sense Of every
man rebels and refutes IL. When the
theOlogian without scientific knowledge
cncroaches with his dogma into the field
of science he can expect 10 be arrested
by sane reason for trespass and less and
loss will he he able to find sympathy
that will so his bail.
IL is not true science and true theology
that are at war, but the false interpre-
tations of both in the hands of well mean
ing but ignorant and misguided support
ers. And II Is by this class OF people
the people who mean we'll and do not
know weii-that much of tho evil IS done
I'm this world The most dangerous man
in any community is a well-meaning fool.
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY
What is true of science and theology
is true Of law and liberty. There Is no
liberty that Is not found in law. There Is
no g0od law AnaL uoes not ledu men oUA
to liberty. Every man in this presence
IS freer man because OF every just law
executed by this republic than he other
wise could he. No man can Interfere with
his life. his character or his property
without tho fear 81 punishment Law is
the foe Of liberty only when law becomes
tyranny. " IS not the use then. but the
misuse OF law that makes men alaves
Liberty is the foe Of law only when 10
becomes license. 1t is tho transforna
tion Of liberty and not liberty itself thai
IS the enemy Of order
The law that cncroaches upon tho lin-
ertv of a man Is either q bad law or
good law. badly administered. When 2
man does not find freedom under 2 goOo
law we'll executed the fault Is with the
man and not with the law. ! desire IN
morning that We carr these thoughts
over into the realm of The Christian re-
ligiou. and that We confront tho facts IN
that realm that these suggestions reveal.
There ~ no greater mistake than n
suppose that Christianity divorces itself
from law. that its liberty In anarchy and
disorder I'm tho region q the spiritual life.
Jesus said that he came rot Co destroy
the law. but so fulhll it Plainly doee
he sav that not ono iot or little Of the
law shall pass away until all be FULFILLED.
Heaven and earth may pass away bat