THE RELIGION OF NATURE 



towards God, leads them over strange ground, 

 where they cannot recognize any of the familiar 

 Scriptural landmarks. 



They cannot, for instance, see where, in a 

 strictly scientific argument, based upon evolution, 

 room can be found for the miracles which form 

 the basis of Christian faith. 



But science cannot say a word against the pos- 

 sibility of the miracles of the Bible: because it 

 cannot presume to limit the future operations of 

 a Power of whose qualities it has, by scientific 

 methods, learned nothing whatever so far. 



Years ago when men of science were dogmatic 

 because their knowledge was so small science 

 would flatly have denied the possibility of many 

 things which we do as matters of course to-day. 



A ship is in mid-ocean, and it gathers from the 

 air the news which is being told that day on land 

 a thousand miles away. 



You see a little glazed room at a railway station, 

 or a postoffice, labelled " Public Telephone." You 

 walk in and tell a friend a hundred miles away the 

 joke which someone has just told you at the club. 

 Then you walk out again as if you had done noth- 

 ing particular. 



Yet there was a time when men learned, 

 righteous and God-fearing men, too, according to 

 their dim lights would have burned you at the 

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