The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02
WITH THOSE WHO LABOR
 IN THE LORDS VINEYARD
BY D. V. FRANCIS

New York, October 1.-(Special)- l)-The relation of science to religion has for many years been undergoing change, and more and more 1t has come to be recognized that there Is no real antago- nism between the two.
 In Secent sermon by the Archbishop of York, in England, this interesting question was dealt with In a most mas terly manner.
 The Archbishop said:
 "The middle of the nineteenth century was marked by constant collision of scientists and theologians. Science was uplifted by It's marvellous success in dis covery and invention. It was full of the aggressiveness and self-confldence. The ology, unprepared for the new views of the world which were opened out, tended to behave as older men are wont to do in the presence of militant and self confident youth to be resentful and dog matic But of late years there has been striking change. Another spirit has been working.
 "On the one hand, science seems to have become aware of its necessary linn itations. A true agnosticism which hum bIy recognizes the limits of scienthc knowledge has taken the place of the | false agnostcsm which declared dog maticalIy that beyond these limits there was nothing that could be known On the other hand, religion or rather relig- | ion thinking itself out, which we call | theology, has equally come to recognize its own limitations. Interpreted at last by its best minds. it seems that it's claim to find in a personal God the ulti- mate author and worker of all things | gives it no right to decide priore the methods of His working in the world.
 Above all it has learned to reconsider its own conception of God and to look | upon Him not as standing apart from l nature by asserting His power by occa- sionally arbitrary interference with the | laws He has ordained, but as dwelling within it. revealing Himself through 1t, over all, yet In all and through all, work | ing out His will Religion and theology proclaim that He and no more blind energy is the worker but it waits for science to give it the tidings of the way in which He works.
 "There was the old wrangle between scientists and theologians over the open ing chapters of the Book of Genesis. How barren and needless it seems tc l have been sound theology no longer | Bible that is a scientific treatise of the Bible miraculously anticipating in every word and detail the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"
 Again, as many present will remem- Der, the warfare which once surrounded the word "Evolution,' or one of its special forms, natural selection dc not say that this debate is closed, but this may at least certainly be said, that | att oolx md of
 were due to the narrow and one-sidet conception of God by which He was looked upon as great architect who had contrived the world and set 1t going, and sometimes asserted Himself, by in- terfering with its course, or, as & grea | artificer who moulded the world from
 without and not from within, as pottel moulds his clay Now. largely undei the influence of science. we have come to a greater and grander conception oi God as one dwelling within the world of His making, present in its processes and
 realizing His will and purposes througt them"
 | The will of the Rev. George Scott. oi New Deer, Scotland, recently lodged al
 Aberdeen, directed, that a tombstone
 shall be erected bearing the following
 inscripiton: 'In memory of Rev. George
 Scott. who travelled over 100000 miles
 preaching the gospel for fifty years 1T
 the British Isles, the South Seas, Aus
 tralia, America and elsewhere
 The Rev. John Mockridge, rector of St 1 Paul's church. Louisville, Ky. has ac-
 cepted. a call extended to him last spring
 by the vestry of Trinity church to be.
 come vicar of Trinity chapel, West
 Twenty street, near Broadway. Ht will come to New York and take up hi' inew duties November 1. He will succeed J the Rev. Dr. William H. Vibbert lont Il the vicar, who asked to be relieved ant
 was retired by Trinity corporation on g
 salary MT. Mockridge Is thirty-eigh
 years old. He was born in Hamilton