The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-31
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD

The quotation suggests the familiar
words of Bacon, "A little natural phi
lOsOphy and the first entrance into II,
doth dispose the opinion to atheism.
but much natural philosophy, and
wading deep into it, will bring about
mems minds to religion"
There is no real conflict between
revelation and science. The Genesis
story could not, in the very nature OF
the case, be a detailed scientific trea-
tise, incomprehensible to mankind at
the time it was written. But it is far
more. 1t is a statement Of the change
less verities that lie behind and ami
mate all scientific teaching. What may
be co~mprehended in the grand SIM
plicity Of the Bible record is pointed
out by Tarbells Teachers Guide:
HE made the stars also Five lit
tie words; and only two words in the
Hebrew. That is all we are told Of the
mighty universe Of stars. We are told
nothing Of the far-stretching limits Of
nebular masses, with heir problems
unsolyed and perhaps insolVable; no
thing Of the deep silence and solitude,
the unreasonable v~astneSS Of inter-
stellar space; nothing Of those stu
pendous systems Of star on star NOV
ING III VI COIIIPACAlLy DcyO1Iu -
keenest mathematician's Skill, yet all
obediert to the eternal and immutable
laws of motion and OF energy; 10th
ing Of those majestic stars beside
which even the sun is but an atom for
magnitude and but a blackness for
light: nothing of the uncomfortable
swiftness of the light itself that
streams forth into all space and in all
directions from every star and sun and
planet in the sky, twelve million miles
a minute and eve 50 takes centuries
to reach us here"
A Time to Walk Softly.
The yellow scientist has been heard
Of late talking about Spontaneous
generation of life" Given some salts
and gelatine, he says. and it is possible
to create life. When pressed, he ad-
mits that he has not really created life.
but he is confident. W. shall be ready
to listen to the learned gentleman
when he comes forward bringing so
much as a one-eyed tadpole or a rain
barrel wiggle-tail which he has caused
to grow from dead substances.
In the meantime, most Of us will
re~Verently stand uncovered before the
mystery of creation, a mystery as mar
velous in the case of the last child
born since these words left the press
as it was in the making OF a sent1lent
being of the first man, and we shall
cry, I'm the beginning, God" That is
as far as most of us can go. We do not
know the how or when of creation,
but we believe that God was there. We
are awed by the greatness Of the
thought OF an OmnipOtent and eter-
na~lly-existent Creator. That our poor
minds can even measurably entertain
the thought Of an infinite God is to us
satisfactory evidence hat we are born
from above, for this capacity is a god
like trait, inherited from the Father In
heaven
The Mysteries of Today.
one of the many reasons why the
Genesis record should not have the
full details Of the creation process is
that the Creator is still at work. God:
task is not yet done. He is still re
vealing the uses n character Of the
universe which He established in thu
unmeasured past. We read the day:
news that has come by wireless: WI
listen to our own voices in the phono
graph; we see through solid sub
lance by the N-ray; we behold thu
wonders of radium; we see airship:
sailing amid the clouds above us, an(
subnarie vessels diving into the waite.
below us; and We are reminded to be
ware of final judgments Gods work
day is not yet over. His quitting hou
has not yet struck
SO we conclude, as we commenced
with the one essential truth: In tn,
{ beginning, God" He will also be a
the ending Of this material universe
{ And He is overruling all that lies be
tween these two inscrutable points. S
, we reverently study the creates
I thought that mortal mind can enter
: tain-the thought Of a Creator who i
3 also a Providence, a Sovereign and
), Father
t. THE NEW CHRISTIAN FOR THE.
NEW TIMES.