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Show riirn xsd beisos. A vnir common fallacy of InO-jejljv InO-jejljv will be found In the October numbtr of the A'crf. American He neu-jin an article headed 'Faith vem,s Iteason." John Burroughs formulates the following questions; 'If the facts or truths revealed are above reason, how can the fact of the revelation Itself be proved to reason? Is faith itself reasonable?" The fallacy evidently Implied In these queUons U this: Borne of the fundamental facts revealed arcNich that they cannot be demonstrated to the human rtason, therefore, there-fore, they are unreasonable and must bo rejected; faith in them is unreasonable For instance, tbe existence of a personal God, the Incarnation, a coming retribution, etc., are revealed re-vealed facta. Hut because they cannot can-not bo demonstrated to Jho human reason in the same way as mathematical mathe-matical propositions, men are Justified Justi-fied in rejecting them as unreasonable. unreason-able. Although this fallacy is very common com-mon among the modern agnostics, it Is one that should nover be admitted ad-mitted by anybody who la capable of reasoning at alL There are Tery few facts, Indeed, If any, outside of the strictly mathematical domain that can be demo nitrated. lcke thought that It wculd l-c eafy enough to demonstrate moral truths ifsigns,ana!agousto thie ujed In mathematics, could be Invented, but that great philosopher died without having Invented the needed arbitrary arbitra-ry signs, and since his time no one has even attempted tho experiment Uut must all moral truths bt-t-jei.-ted because they eannot be mathematically mathemati-cally demonstrated? The fact Is tint tb.3 truths with which revelation deals are in themselves them-selves reasonable, " to speak, par cxcetlcna. Through revelation we receive knowledge of truths which our own unaided reason could not discover. IlJt once discovered, they are apparent, even to human reason. Is there, for instance, any reasonable way of explaining the existence of the univer-e, our own existence, our cou'doune-s, and other ficts, except by theaccounts given thereof In tlie'tevelations of God? Were it not for these revelations, we might liave yet been in the ame ttate of knowledge, or, rather, ignomuce la which the heather, phllosopbrrs of Hindustan were, who were satisfied with thi supptortion that .the worU reste; upon a large elephant, supported b-au b-au enormous frog, which agaiu.restei on, nobody knew what. Or wi mighthavehai tocantentourselre with tlie idea held by the old sage of Scandinavia who held that th' ' earth had xeia formed lrlm th 1 body of a deal man, the skull am ' the bones supplying materials fo ' mountains, the blood for rivers an ' oceans,the beard and hair for foret! grass ana .lowers, now reasouauic, how easy to comprehend are not the declarationof revealed religion compared com-pared to all those crude ideas : "God ms'le the heaven; and the earth?" Everybody, even a child can understand and accent that, and tlie greatest sage who tver lived can say nothing, beyond that dearly expressed truth. And as the revelations further unfold un-fold and tell us of the reason why Goi maie the unlvcr-c and gave living beings an existence, Jight b shed upon every subject until the l,eeut Intellect that evtr alorued a human Mng is satisfied. As evidence of this it may bo; stated that men endowed aalth the greatest intellectual faculties hare' always been believers in the revelation". revela-tion". Even if wo pao by the long glorious array of men of God hoe lives Illumine the pages of history from Adam doaru to the Sou of God, and, in our own day, to Joteph Smith the prophet, we find men like Locke, Pascal, LInnatus, Isaac Xewton, aud numerous others, accepting firmly tho revealed facts, an! they wereall men who, In thUr various branches, never wire rur-. rur-. pa&red. It may be true, Uiat some of th-. J facts which have been revealed are . of such a nature that they ca-nut be comprehended except byahlghly cnli-htened reason, and fonfe are even such Uiat they tan never le ' fully undtretood by man In his prrf- ent-tateof IntelU-ctua! development. Man isaJvancing, and some of the ' revealed facts w.l! be plain only . when a higher slate of perfection ',m has been rciebed. it-it Oiei facb are Just as reisouatje 11 tli-t- which we unders ncl now. aud oui '" wIdom is toBC-ci-flttiem -v faitk F until we can comprehend them by more perfected lntt Sl-rtual faculth A child meets on its entrance luUilliU world a great many fort ," which cannot 1 explained in tin undeveloped reaon of a chilil. Itu as it crows these facts will lircoini "" plain. An I in the meantime it w il receive through faith lhe.atemeut of its parents and thes, althougl ' not fully understood, will help it i the attalanunt of knowledge am e erfection of the undeveloped fac 1L" ultirs. The reUlion bt-tweeu Gji and man, between faith ani reason f" are -:i.ry much the same rs tho 4 given here In illjslration. Ttirougl revelation God tells us truths whlcl wecojldDotyctothcrwbedkcovci " We accept thrm, and are by thei enabled to go forward from know! edgs to knowledge until we, In th words of tbe Aitle, are in a ijsi 1 tioa "'to krowas wearehnown." |