Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10
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SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMhGE, DID,.
Pastor OF Jefferson sask Presby.
terrain Church. Chicago

sermon the preacher discusses the
psychological phenomena OF mind in
fucncine mind and shows how The
soul may be elevated and cucrgizcd by
divine Influence. Tho text is Acts K.
IL. And he saw heaven opened and n
certain vessel descending"
Theory is often little more than the
fine art Of guessing. 1t is sometimes
the way Of conccaling the fact that
you do not know a thing, by using
scientific language 1t is the verbal
means we have of dressing up specula
ton to make it look plausible. But
there are certain causations impossible
TO analyze, and learned answers only
make the phenomena the more mystcri-
GUS.
What is specific gravity? "Thnt is
the physical law" you answer, which
Isaac Newton discovered. Sitting one
day under an overarching tree branch
In his orchard. he felt puff OF wind
upon his cheek The overhanging
branch swayed, and fail pippin, like
lump OF gold. dropped into his lap.
Then the English sage began to won
der why that apple came down to earth
Instead Of flying away. as though it
had the wings OF bird, toward the
stars. AS a result of these ponderings
Newton generalized all the causes of
cohesion and gravitation which bind
this earth into compact mass and
called them specific gravity" But,
my friend, with your learned answer
you have not explained TO me any
thing. In reference to the laws of
physical cohesion you have only given
to me two big words TO express what
did not know before and what | do
not know now. What is life?" ! once
asked a school professor. What ia
the definition OF life? Here Is a body
weighing 1GO pounds. A bullet is fred
nut of an assassin's gun. One moment
that body is alive: the next 1t is dead
1t weighed 100 pounds before the heart
ceased to beat; it weighed 100 pounds
after the breath had left the nostril.
Give me definition of life" why,
life" answered the professor. sis moth
Ing more or less than the juxtaposi-
ton Of the protoplasmatic molecules"
His learned answer left the subject as
great mystery rs ever.
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