Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-19
Relation Of Man to Laws Of Ma.
ture Discussed by Rev. Ben.
jamiu Young
GODS WORK IS EVER EVIDENT.
Science and Its Relationship to Re,
lgiOu, the Topic at Uni
tartan Church.

The relation Of man to the laws Of ma.
ture was the subject discussed by Rev.
Benjamin Young at the First Metho.
dist church yesterday morning He
took his text from John ll.lS, u will
not leave you orphans" and developed
the thought therein expressed by show
Ing wherein the laws Of God are made
manifest in the works Of nature, and
how man has grown steadily into har-
mony with these same laws,
"The prodlglous intellect Of Isaac
Newton discovered the wonderful truths
received in his Principal. Discovered
them, mind you--did not originate
them. They were there long before
Newton was born, who put them
there? Who made possible the adjust
ments and the combinations OF chem.
istry2 What Is sclene doing today2
Putting man in harmony with the laws
and the forces OF nature Not orlg-
mating these laws and forces, but dis
covering them, The chemist In his lab
oratory Is unyeillng the secrets Of the
world. lie Is putting together certain
combinations to get expected results,
Who made possible cohesion and chem
lcal affinity? Not the scientists, Who
built the eye with reference TO the laws
OF optics? Who built the ear with ref.
erence to the laws or the mathematics
Of sound? Who evolved that wonderful
but delicate instrument for focusing
the eye? The intelligences which con-
front me on every hand--what do they
mean? They mean that man Is not an
orphan That above him is an intelli.
gent loving God.
SCIENCE AND RELIGION
The relation Of science to religion
WAS discussed by Rev, CIV, Stone field
secretary OF the American Unitarian
association, al Unitarian hall last night,
Instead Of following the usual custom
Of representing science and religion
as In battle array against cath other,
he pointed out wherein science Is a
new witness for religion. His text was
And there we've dlyersltles OF work.
ings, but the same God who worketh
all things, in ALL | Corinthians, IL; g.
lie OtUneQ SCIENCE as uUStl Nlllh VI
reading nature, or God at work, y
Now" said the preacher, after sketch
ing the growth Of mans knowledge OF
nature. IMAM reads his title clear to a
faith that is not only comforting, but
capable of scientific demonstration,
Science comes 10 the troubled soul and
says You are In the hands OF bene-
hcent being, Nothing In my domain Is
ever lost, Everything changes, but
never to It's disadvantage, The dust
that moves in clouds is only changing
lts residence, It will ere long perchanoe
be fertile earth. nursing upon its boz
som flowers and fruits. The water you
see disappearing in yapor is only MAX
Ing "a Journey, II will come back again:
II leaves the ocean, settles for rest
about the mountain summit then pro-
ceeds laughing. as It dances over wa
terfals, through riyulet, brook and
river, to It's home in the sea. Nothing
IL lost What you think Of as violence,
is a beautiful process. What You call
death Is only a change OF residence.
You are a life germ which, Ike the
seed Of the flower we hide perhaps IL
may be inoffensiye soil, shall come to
higher frultlon and beauty sometime
somewhere.