Show TilE PULPIT AXD SCIENCE This Is an age of science and a pult pit that ignores science musf ilin the 1 risk of being itself ignored DlT came it about for instance that preachers almost to a man missed the turn of the tide when the stream of materialism I material-ism after rolling on toward the cataract catar-act of despair seemed about to plunga into the yawning gulf of atheism but was suddenly checked and diverted by a sentence In Prof Tyndalls famous address at Glasgow which after all only embodied a Scientific confession that had to be made sooner or later viz that the universe and its order could not be accounted for by matter and force alone as usually conceived but as Buchner has it by matter and force 1 x Before said Tyndall you can find the promise and potency of all life in matter you musE sadi cally change your conception of matter mat-ter and then etc all would go swimmingly You must added G H Lewis have matter and force specially determined under peculiar and complex relations Here was the preachers opportunity Instead of twaddling on about Genesis Gen-esis and the six days or denouncing men of science as atheists and their research as dangerous the preachers should have risen in their pulpits throughout the country and sung a paean on the scientific collapse of raw materialism Pray how they should have cried can you slip in special determination de-termination and peculiar and complex relations without having slipped in mind or purpose in the earlier stages My friends do you not see it Is the old hat trick a cornucopia of wealth You simply put into the scientists sci-entists hat what you want to got out of it and Evolution le voila But no Tyndalls address fell on deaf ears the clergy not knowing as usual the things which belonged t their peace SL The new pulpit has to watch not only the progress the discoveries the dogmatists and the assumptions but also the confessions of science Indeed In-deed as Lord Salisbury pointed out lately at the British Association what science does not know and cant do is quite as instructive as its triumphs and its truths only he forgot to encourage en-courage the new pulpit to take up the parable and would possibly have been shocked at such a recommendation Haweis in the NorthAmerican Review Re-view |