The Newtown bee., 1904-09-09
SOCIAL TOPICS.
SCIENTIFIC RELIGION.-BY c. O.
 WRIGHT.

SCIENTIFIC REL1G1oN.-BY G. o. We are won't to speak of civilization as though science, art, education, and all enterprise and progress grow out of | tions in life. We refer every thing to evolution, in these days. But where | do we get the ideal toward which we are ever striving? Who gives us the motive adequate to produce these re- suits? Where does the inspiration of divine grace come from?
 Our civilization is Christian, there | fore it must have had it's ideal and in- spiration in Christ. The stream does not rise above the fountain. There are great civilized nations outside of Christendom. But material civiliza- tion does not make men moral and re- | ligiOuS. Our Christian civilization is the result, not the cause of Christian ity. The doctrine of the Church is the true science of human life.
 These things being true, the Church of Christ should be the supreme object in all our thoughts and endeavOrS. 1t is the embodiment of every interest; and the conservatory of all good to all men. Let the world think and say what it will, the best of all this world has: social, educational, political, moral and religious, lis found in the Church, 1.-the blessed company of all faithful peOple"-whatever their creed and denomination may be.
 The best society in the world is in | the church, because church-society | meets on the highest plane, and reaches the loftiest level. The best society is the society of the best people. The best people are moral, religious and charitable, always. Society has been | defined as 'the intercourse of persons on footing of apparent equality" And as Bishop Thompson says of the church: '"The kingdom is common | wealth, and among it's organic laws IS l the law of equality. It was the first | democracy established among men. It was the only pure democracy the world has yet seen. And whatsoever sense of human equal right and brOtherly oneness has to this hour existed among 1 the governments of men, has sprung from this, the Divine and equal broth erhood purchased for men by the elder | brother of us all"
 The best education in the world is Christian education;. for it is nothing less than the training of the whole nature, social, mental, moral and spir- itual, according to the highest ideal, ana most perfect standard of attain ment and usefulness. The child who becomes member of the church in infancy, by baptism; and is brought up in the true nurture of the Gospel; who is taught all that is necessary to the souls health and strength; and is l faithful to all the ministries of wOr- ship, preaching, and sacraments of Christ, is receiving the best education and the highest culture in the world. religious we should be; and the more religious we become, in the true sense, the more scientific we must be. The more we love God the better we shall know Him; and the more we under stand Him the better we shall love Him. And it is only as we are able to combine the scientific and the spirit ual that we can most truly grasp the fullest, highest meaning of the Holy Scriptures.
 ;l Wednesday morning, August 31, at a. m., there was a pretty church we'd Margaret Mulligan, daughter of John Mulligan of Hanover, and John L.
 Mincke of South Lee, Mass, were united in marriage by Rev Father Far
 rell. The newly married couple left on the 7.4l a. m. train north for theil home in South Lee, Mass, where MI Mincke is employed:
 H. T. Coger and family, who occupy Sunset cottage, will move to Bridge
 port about October 10. MrCoger passed Sunday in town.
 7 Miss gnes Platt passed last weel with Bridgeport friends.
 Rev P. G. H. Robinson, rector of $
 Johns church, Washington, who sup
 piled most acceptably at Trinit
 church, Sunday, stopped at the New
 town Inn over Sunday.
 At the republican caucus, last wee . Thursday evening, at the Brick build
 ing, ohm B. Wheeler was chosen chail
 man and Allison P. Smith clerk. Tn
 delegates elected were: State, Arthu . T. Nettleton, Eli B. Beers, Hobart H
 Curtis and Charles M. Parsons; COT
 gressional, Wilson M. Reynolds, Joh
 B. Wheeler, Newton M. Curtis an
 John L. Sanfard. The delegates wer ', given the power of substitution. U Gen H. O. Averill of Washington
 the CdUUle COLllulSSlOuof, dnU Lea La |. ton Burnham of New Preston, were
 town, Saturday, dining at the Gran
 Central hotel. They attended the fl
 neral of Dea N w. Mitchell,> being r
 lated to MT Mitchell
 ', Harry Coger returned to NewtoW
 on Thursday evening" and has resume
 his former position at the Grand Ger
 tral hotel.
 Mrs R. H. Smith and Sadie left Pl
 mouth early Saturday morning, al
 took the 5.51 train south at Torrin
 ton for Siasconset on the island
 Nantucket. Miss Susie H. Smith, III dies sister and proof reader on u Ill Waterbury American, joined them a. Waterbury. The conductors we
 most kind to Sadie, whose left leg
 practically helpless, so that two m
 carried her on the car and transfer
 hor from tn whon noooSS9