Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
HARMONY BiTWkEA THE TWO
Science and Religion Form an AMIGA
BILE Blend.
VAST CHANGE HAS COME ABOUT
Archbishop of York, in England, Dis-
cusAes Question Ia Most In
terestinR and Instruc-
I've Manner.

- l. II. V, FRANCIS.
NEW YORK, Oct. L-(Special to The
Bec)-The relation of science to religion
has for many years been undergoing a
change and more and more it has come
TO be recognized that there is no real an
tagonism between the two In recent
sermon by the Archbishop Of York in Eng
land, this interesting question was dealt
with in q most mastery manner.
The archbishop said: The middle OF the
nineteenth century was marked by con-
slant collision Of scientists and thcolo-
CLANS Science was uplifted by it's marvel
lous successes in discovery and invention.
II was fun Of the aggressiveness Of self
confidence. Theology. unprepared for the
new views of the world which were opened
out, tended to behave older men are
wont to do in the presence Of militant and
self-confident youth, to be resentful and
dogmatic But of late years there has been
a striking change Another spirit has been
working.
Effects of Thought.
On the one hand science seems to have
become aware OF its necessary limitations
A true agnosticism, which humbly recog-
nizes the limits OF scientific knowledge, has
taken the place of the false agnostcsm
which declared dogmaucally that beyond
those limits there was nothing that could
be known. On the other hand, religion, or
rather, religion thinking itself out, which
we call theology, has equally come to rec
ognize it's own limitations. Interpreted at
least by it's best minds, it seems that its
claim to find in a personal God the ultimate
author and worker of all things, gives 1t
no right to decide, a priore, the methods
Of His workings in the world.
AhOVa al has LOG cd tn do
its own conception Of God and to look upon
Him as not standing apart from nature by
asserting His power by occasional arbitrary
interference with the laws He has or
dained, but as dwelling within 1t, revealing
Himself through it, over all yet in all and
through all, working out His will. Re
lgion and theology proclaim that He and
no mere blind energy is the worker, but
II waits for science to give II the tidings
of the way in which He works.
Genesis and Evolution.
There was the old wrangle between
scientists and theologians over the opening
chapters of the book of Genesis. How
barren and needless IL seems to have been.
sound theology no longer claims for that
notable foreword of the Bible that IT is a
scientific treatise of the Bible miraculously
anticipating in every word and detail the
discoveries of the nineteenth twentieth
centuries.
Again, many will remember the warfare
which once surrounded the word 'Evolu-
ton, or one OF Its special foEms, snataral
selecton.' l do not say that this debate is
closed, but this may at least certainly be
said that both the attack and defense OF
theism were due to the narrow and one
sided conception Of God by which He was
arrl,if Fh.N l,aI
contrived the world and set it going, and
sometimes asserted Himself by interfering
with its course. or great artificer who
moulded the world from without and not
from within, as potter moulds his clay.
Now, largely under the influence of science
we have come to a greater and grander
conception of God as one dwelling within
the world OF His making present in its
processes and realising His will and pur-
poses through them"
Minister'S own Tombstone.
The will of the Rev George Scott of New
Deer, Scotland, recently lodged at Aber-
deem. directs that a tombstone shall be
erected bearing the following inscription
I'm memory OF the Rev. George Scott, who
Travelled over 10000 miles preaching the
gospel for fifty years in the British Isles
the South Seas. Australia, America anC
elsewhere"
Persons 10 Inspect.
Rev, DR.. Arthur T. Pierson and his wifi,
will depart on october 10 on a tour of tn,
missions of the world. They will be sem
by friends who have organized the Persor
Jubilee fund for Bible study and foreign
missions. Mr.. William Il Moody of Eas
Mortified. Mass, has announced that the
fund will he left open until DR.. and Mrs
Pierson depart. He is the American treas