Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-02

on the same subject to which even
such men as Nordau and Edwin Ar
mold are contributing popular polemics.
The religious world has also taken up
DR.. Alfred Russell Wallace's remark
able theory of the inverse in a SYM
pathetic spirit. In fact the temporary
| affairs of men and nations seems to
have given place in public c~onsidera-
ton of the broadcast problems of the
origin and destiny of the race.
The most significant phase of the
matter seems to be the sudden birth of
tolerance and the absence of sectariau-
ism. which was sufficiently demon
strated by the Lord Mayors address to
a great Christian audience at the Man
sion House. where he declared that toll
GRAFTON bred liberation. and it was a
pride md satisfaction to him to preside
over a meeting of the Bible society, to
whose work he wished every success.
Some stupendous figures were quoted
in regard to the work of the society
during the past century The Bible is
now circulated in 400 languages and
dialects, and $50, 900, 900 copies have
been distributed. There remain how
ever. the President declared, 55O,0O0,O00
persons who had never had an oppor-
tunity to e any part of the Script
ures in the tongue which they UNDER
stand.
Prime Minister Balfour's address was
a plea for the subordination of sectar-
ianism.
Living here in Great Britain. which
is too much absorbed with its own re-
ligious differences he asked: rs 1t.
not something to be able to meet in a
cause intimately connected with re-
iieion. but not in any sense depending
upon sectarian differences, which so
frequently divide us? 1t must increase
charity, and it must widen the outlet.
There is always danger, whether in
politics, literature, or religion, that
those who live in a narrow circle will
take a parochial view. There is moth
ing parochial about this society. Whea
we bring to our imagination tie variety
of races. the variety of civilization.
and the variety of cultures with which
the society is concerned, then, if that
prospect does not make us wholly for.
get the points Of difference between us,
they at all events will enable US TIC
put those differences in the right per-
spective."
Turning to the wider scope of reli-
gious discussion aroused by recent
events, nonscientitic criticism of DR.
Wallace's limited universe theory, is
chiefly of the nature that it is not
sufficiently comprehensive. Thus the
Spectator argues:
Why limit the conception of the
universe to SO small a thing,
mall because u cluster of stars meas
uring in diameter any number or bill
lions of miles, must be small to q
mind capable of comprehending in
Why should there net be an
number of such clusters OF
stars of such universes, to adopt the
meaning which DR.. Wallace apparently
attaches to the WORD? To take a very
smile, If we suppose a limited
universe to be represented by q
glow worm in Surrey Garden, we can
still conceive of another universe rep
resented by a FREELY in Il forest In
Brazil. How should the glow worm
of the FREELY? We are old that
the laws of light ~conclusively prove that
a universe of luminous stars is limited.
That that the strewing of
space With stars is regularly continue
yet, conceding that light dimin
ishes distance. why should not one
bright universe be invisible from an
other, separated from it by a stupen-
dous breadth of darkness"
A sign of the times in Germany is the
conspicuous decrease in the number of
theological students at the great uni
Even before the name of
Delitzsch became a houshould word
young Germans We're crowding in on
law and medicine and neglecting the
church. During the last decade the
number of students in law and medi-
cine has almost doubled, while the
number taking holy orders, which in
was 1886, dwindled to 2,2S6 in
1903.
A Startling Test.
To save a life DR.. 7. G. Merritt, OF
North M%ehoopany, Pa, made a startling
est resulting in a wonderful cure. He