OF SAINTHOOD 



our services, the attitude of the Church 

 toward these laws should not be hesi- 

 tant, defensive, or apologetic, but act- 

 ive, receptive, and aggressive. 



Considered in this way the great sci- 

 entific inquiry of the latter half of the 

 nineteenth century, so far from being 

 regarded as destructive, is a construct- 

 ive, purifying, and regenerating move- 

 ment; it takes us back to the lost faith 

 of our fathers, a faith which spiritu- 

 alized the Old Testament, a faith which 

 finds in Nature a manifestation of the 

 divine order of things. If Newton 

 opened to us the new heavens, Darwin 

 showed us the new earth, Pasteur 

 showed the way to the physical re- 

 demption of man. If we were to re- 

 write the Litany in the twentieth cen- 

 tury, for the passage, "From plague, 

 pestilence, and famine, good Lord, 

 deliver us/' we should read, "From 

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