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recent theories and discoveries of our scientific friends are not 

 striking at the root of Christian theology as developed ont of 

 the New Testament whether the time has not really come 

 when Christian institutions of learning should discriminate 

 against professors who teach or who meddle with these advanced 

 theories of science. 



I approach the further elucidation of these theories with great 

 hesitation, because some may think they are subjects which should 

 not be written upon. But how can we fight an enemy in the 

 dark ? How shall we know what to beware of, unless we expose 

 it to the light ? I therefore plunge " in medias res." 



Late developments in what is called the kinetic theory go to show 

 that all the forces in nature are only different modes of motion 

 transmutable one into another, but still motion and nothing 

 but motion. If then all force is motion, and there can be no 

 motion without something to move, the forces cannot exist 

 except in connection with some form of matter. There is, and 

 there can be, no impulse nor life nor manifestation, in the world 

 or out of it, except through material substances. Under such a 

 state of things, one can hardly understand how the spirit of man, 

 which is certainly a force in his natural body, can exist separate 

 from that body. 



The life force of all the animal creation is a transmutation 

 from chemical force, the materials for which are constantly sup- 

 plied through the food we eat and the air we breathe. The 

 moment the supply gives out, the life force ceases and the body 

 becomes other kinds of matter, in most cases the food and sub- 

 stance of other animals. By far the greater part of all organic 

 matter, the human organism included, passes the round of vege- 

 table and animal existence time and time again. Therefore the 

 body, once dead and eaten up and passed on to another generation 

 of animated beings, can never be gathered together and animated 

 over again. The resurrection of our bodies then would seem to 

 be a physical impossibility, and under the kinetic theory there 

 can be no spirits without corporeal bodies. 



If we still maintain, as the most of us certainly will, that the 

 soul of man is some mysterious entity independent of natural 



