The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1926-12-16


natural power. That was the easiest
and the only explanation they could
give. Therefore a belief in God had
large and an immediate place in
their lives.
Today we explain all these things in
natural way. We can see that they
are the result of natural causes. We
understand the laws of nature by
which they are brought about. In the
case of some of them we are able to
foresee their coming and predict when
they will arrive.
Does this mean that there are no
mysteries today, that we can explain
everything, and that there is no need
to have faith in God? Does science
displace God? Does reason supplant
faith? Does the natural exclude the
supernatural. These are questions
which are troubling some folks and
which it is well for US to settle to our
fullest satisfaction.
We can answer these questions di-
rectly by saying that all mysteries are
not solved. In fact we have greater
problems today than any other age
has ever had. Someone has well said
that science makes more problems
than it solves. 1t solves some of the
minor problems that used to trouble
people by saying that physical hap
penings are caused by the law of ma
ture. But it raises the large questions
of what is the law of nature, who
made it and who controls it? These
questions science cannot answer. 1t
must fall back on religion with its
belief in God that He does all these
things, and that the law of nature is
simply his process of doing them.
The ancients used to think that the
universe was brought into existence by
an instantaneous act. Their sufficient
explanation for this mystery was that
God did it, and he was able for he can
do all things. Today scientists are
trying to show the infinitely long pro-
cess by which the universe has grad
ually come to its present state. Their
explanation is that it is all accord
ing to natural law But they still have
a mystery, a larger mystery than any
former age has known. That is, who
dreamed the plan, who made the law,
who controlled the forces? The man
of science can only say; 81 don't know,
| have no explanation. | am amazed
and bewildered more and more the
further | push back the rim of time
and space which marks the beginning
of all things" But the man of religion
today can step forth with more
saner, more satisfying belief than ever
the ancients had and say, SIN the be-
ginning God laid the plan, formed the
laws, created the substances, and con-
trolled the forces whether the time
be counted in days or geological per-
iods."
In the question of mans origin, his
nature and his history, the same sit
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the time and the manner of all this.
And it puts forth some very plaus-
able theories. But even though it
should be able to explain the process
completely so far as the physical ell
ements are concerned, yet science
would be lost in maze of mysteries.
We still need belief in God who made
and controls and has a destiny for
man. The answer for the mystery of
human life is not natural law or an
evolutionary process. But the answer
is God, a moral purpose, an eternal
destiny. The meaning of mans ex-
istence needs religious more than
scientific explanation.
Some Investigators are trying to ex-
plain the nature of sin and redemption
by saying that sin is the result of
natural causes and is cured by natural
means. The theory is that crime, and
in lesser degree every sin, is the re-
suit of physical rather than moral
defect. Hence the cure for sin is not
by will power or moral suasion, or
spiritual regeneration, but by physical
treatment. If this theory were
proven true, which in the minds of
most of us it is not, still we would be
confronted by the question Of why is
anything called sin or crime, who is
responsible for the moral standard
that we measure all acts by, and who
put 1t into the consciousness of the
whole ones of society to try to cure,
eother by physical or moral means,
those who are defective? Who is the
author of morality, Righteousness and
sense of social duty? The old pro-
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