The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-09-18
OF HON. GEO. r.. VENDING
LAST EVENING.
ee'ns Third in the Series Of Lectures
On Modern Doubt. Saul Of
Tarsus Ton Night.

In a Fascinating presentation OF
IN" spiritual as opposed TO the mater
iaI conception OF the World. the Hon.
George X. Vending delivered his
| lecture on Unseen Realities" last even
IN the First Presbyterian church Tn.
! lecture is one Of the series on Mod
ern Doubt. now being delivered under
the auspices OF the Y. NJ. g A.
I lows:
/ The doctrine that there is nothing
IN the universe but matter and its
. properties IL called matcrialism. and
3 materialism II the most notable mes
sage which the Nineteenth Century
! delivered 20 the world The farthest
reaching voices .; the century thai
mas Just passed are the voices OF
Z Darwin. Spencer. Tyndall. Huxley.
! ana their fellow workers In scientific
! research They are marvellous men.
: theN We're brave men. and they were
/ In the main conscientious men. But
/ ! note ths elimination of that old
I moVem Mt. and hail the advent az
/ inc new. The twentieth century will
( near higher message and will heed
u. As the nineteenth century recedos
and the tumultuous controversy sub.
Z sides. the anC lent question recurs with
I renewed Solemnity and force. Can
I We ind n rational foundation for a
B belief In the Supernatural? After
All. Is therr anything in NE and ma
I ture. and history 10 convince the
/ wayfaring man and the thinker that
over and aLainst the material stands
the spiritual honor the materiaIist
Tor the patient work and wonderful
discoveries. hut ! have come to say
that this world Is the theatre Of many
activities which lie beyond the reach
OF the i've senses. that the most po-
tent forces came from unseen CEN
tres. ard that our civilization is based
on unseen realities.
Does all our knowledge come
through III. i've sensesg Here IL a
statue 81 wonderful beauty and per-
lection. arJ We will suppose u To- be
endowed with siRht az FAR reaching as
an eagles. with "a sense OF smell a.
keen as that 81 the finest hunting
cogs. with hearing as acute as that
or a viii ceeT. ard with touch AMI
tnste as sensitive AZ microscopic
nerve. ghan not ask what our sta
tue secs but let mo tell you what ne
cannot see. what he cannot hear. and
what he cannot feel Let US show
him the Anreius by Millett Can he
enjoy thai painting? IL there .Od
I Ike reason. ~ there n soul. is there
spirit. are there aspirations and sym-
pathy ard reverence az the inner end
W fN fANN"N NNNNN UfAH rake ANe
statue into cur garden and give him
an Old fashioned rose He can per
I ceive nothing more than your hunting
dog, Tor there o. no soul. no spirit. no
lovirg heart within O. receive the in
articuiatc NJ ssaEe which that cNquis-
ite Hover always brings or 20 with
him 90 listen Co Handles Messiah. and
th"urh b. has an ear far moro deli
cate AMI sentative than yours or mine.
De hears only a noise and can never
know the difference between an
autumn " no ard an oratorio u ~
not Is true as when ~ was first said.
. that ears may be without hearing.
ana eyf4 without seeing? Nor has
matoriaiisn. set answered that Old
question. Whence then .cometh wis
dom. ana where b. the place of I'M
derstardinge II Paul indeed spoke
for the whole human race when he
said "wo 'cok rot at tho things which j
are seen but at the things which are
unseen"
Wat is Lisht7
40 man has yof solved the wonder /
ful mystery 81 ilkht. not even Tyudai b
with al bis brilliant discoveries What 4
is heat Even Lod Kelvin can 20 no 1
further Than o. say that 10 is an intos- ]
tine comm, ton among particles - /
matter What is electricity Not I
even Edison can toll us. though with .
% Co., bids dcnnarco 90 tho setting i
sun and tuns midnight darkness int d
MONDAY srlf udor What nre th17s J.
hidden force which We call cohesive 4
attraction and chemical affinity b
What is tra' magical power o. ctii .
crystaiiznt and whence does DO /
come. And hat is that mystical thing I
called mHgrf tisw. Even with Max
Wells rrrat ork before us. magnet h
ism is stu an iuscrufahle mystery. /
And what la that wonderful and all i
porvadinr power We call Eavifation Z
Sir Isaac newton himself cannot tell i
Won what ~ ia Now 10 Will r1 longer .
DO fO say ftaf each of these forces is i
orlr 10 mod ~ motion. FOR not ono = .
them cen Gpcrat without surna an
terror fore. each 81 them must aI- /
ways he puf into motion by some prior Z
or nntcctdcIt power So We come ut /.
last face 90 face with the great ques-
lion. whore and What On that prccxist- i
ing Intelligent and controlling forcef \
and here science bows. o. faith does.
t1 Tho urscou. or becomes denantly D
aFnoqfir
Turn from thesc forces 90 others I
sui moro subtle and powerful Non-
der in our rafirn0i archiovea iq piece
- paper made ~ rars and INK fn-
elcctinu With microscope can dis
cover nothing in % hut RAGS and inft.
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