The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-08
The CoSn1ic Accuracy
By DR. TRANN CRANE

Nature never guesses, slips, stumbles, or misses. She never makes n move that can, not be expressed in algebraic formula. There IS no waste, nos scraps, no refuse. The chem icaI reactions of the garbage heap are just as true as those of thea apotheeary's table. Burn this in the grate and you have not de stroyed a thing; the matter has all passed, by rigid chemic formulae, into ashes and gases. z, Even music can be mathematically ex- pressed. A Mozart sOnato is governed ab- solutely by the laws of numbers.
 And if these things are under the rigff rule of exact law, why are not the things of mind and heart and soul governed also by the same exactness? Was it not good guess of old Epicharmus that i've live by arith- metic and logic?" And was Pythogoras so far astray when he made number the center of philosophy and theology?
 It must be so. Anger, kindness, malice and love move with the same unerring exactness that prevails in the compounds of sulphur, hydrogen, and oxygen. Nature would not be so careful in low matter and slipshod in her high products of the spirit.
 It is no mere figure of speech then, to say, Be sure your sin will find you out" OF. whatsoever man sOweth, that shall he also reapE" Also, your goodness will find you out. You live in world of accurate moral as well as chemical reaction. The Ten Commandments do not foOzle any more than does the multiplication table. Once we get this conviction deep in our mind 1t ought not to alarm us, but to give us great and unshakable peace. For it gives us the feeling that our destiny is not the plaything of chance, but is the result of a precise and Intelligent purpose If nature is 80 solieitous about that atom of hydro gen, she certainly is not going to overlook me. g,, Few people actually take as their working creed the moral and spiritual accuracy of the universe. They admit the rule in physics and astronomy and in the assayer's office, but in their human relations they persist in the suspicion that life is rather a game of cards, part luck and part shrewdness.
 Whoever will renouDce this superstition, acknowledge once for all that justice and mercy are as reliable as the rule of three, and utterly commit his life, happiness, and immortal soul to a perfect reliance upon the higher laws, will be made henceforth free from fear and strong with a strength not his own
 "The stars in their courses fought against Sisera;" and they continue to fight against every soul that has risked himself in the hands of wrong and cruelty We ought to be as much afraid to act UH#Istly or unkindly to- ward our neighbor as to taste indiscriminate- ly the contents of bottles on the drug store shelf. We are fooling with lightning.
 Behind every unclean thought wars the thunder of the Pleiades. Every theft and cheating calls power of vengeance from the air. Every act of disloyalty or jealous mean ness or malice is on it's road to meet some where a sword or a sorrow.
 On the other hand, you have never done noble thing that has been lost. All the good deeds of your life walk along with you like a bodyguard of heavenly policemen.
 How much happier would we be if we left verse, and if we put into each day what of truth and justice and love we can, and if we should abide unshaker in the faith that good ness means happiness just as absolutely and invariably to those who trust it, as two atoms of hydrogen plus one of oxygen equal waterl