| Show EDUCATION AND infidelity ADDRESS kiy BY PRESIDENT TALMAGE or OF THE university the worlds great thinkers are neither atheists kt heists nor infidels what evo evolution lution teaches dr J IJ U talmage arc delit or ol uc the university of utah delivered ain it ao address last evening at the twelfth ward vard chapel on oil the subject education an and infidelity A large and cultured audience greeted the speaker and its ills ro rl maiks were liste listened to with great attention the breaker referred to the sacredness of oc the hour of 0 evening prayer and the unfitness of 0 dispute and debate dab ito in treating sacred themes theme polemic discussion ma may y serve to elucidate truth to some extent but moro more frequently it does but prove the superior rowers powers of 0 ono one contestant over the other in some of aur our scenes of strife over sul subjects of scientific or religious interest wo ave seem to have addan advanced ced but little beyond this custom of 0 barbarous times wo we are still prone to after triumph rather than truth such efforts seem wholly inappropriate to an occasion such as the present the audience Is here as a worshiping assembly worship may include parne carne nest 9 t 1 study 1 t U d I 1 y and sincere investigation it r t 11 y does doca not consist in posture of 0 deigned leverence or in the simple beitl i enking ing of 0 hymns and prayers we baft I iest best est as is we learn more and me of ac the being and attributes of oc conr object of worship I 1 it Is doubtful it a true atheist exists in human form the nature of man demands and will find fand some object of 0 re rei prence terence and worship it Is a popular error to regard FL a or a philosopher as a skeptic who is ij unwilling to believe aught that cannot be demonstrated st none knows better than he tho the narrow limits of the known the bound lesa extent ot of the unknown the earnest student ol of nature lias has a profound respect for the simple falth faith of trusting trustin sr belief A As 4 le conte has ably declared science EiCie nce has to do with phenomena tile the objects of 0 sense arid and the secondary causes of such but with the first cause purely an ail object ot of faith science Is able to do nothing through sheer inability thus geology one of the most mil presented of sciences deals with the jise ilsc and development of the earth it traces the order of appearance of 0 living things but acknowledges her incapacity to explain the cause of such appearances hut but it may be asked does not evolution explain everything concerning the origin of living species 13 involution may show something of the stages and processes by which the works of creation have been wrought it is however the results not the means that declare the intelligent design and direction but geology which is surely a science founded on the principles of true evolution does not cannot explain the origin of filing aling things the worlds great thinkers scientists philosophers are not atheists or infidels nor are they bigoted by blind adherence to tec t ec tarlan creed they are humble earnest seekers after truth and truth once found they accept it whatever violence that acceptance may do to thelt theli prejudices and former beliefs they by the light vt falth faith and they lind their faith strengthened purI purified flea and ennobled with every step they take the danger attending light draughts from the spring of knowledge alsap peals with deeper study and in general era the self professed scientific infidel is a non bolce fee lit in the work nature Is the temple of deity and all who officiate within those sacred precincts will sooner or later be humbled and sane titled tided by the holy search for truth education and infidelity are not in beaque as the former grows the latter will deap disappear pear |
