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gratified." Yet the immortality of man is not 

 half so wonderful, he thinks, as the conserva- 

 tion of force or the indestructibility of matter. 

 "Science warns me to be verv careful how I 

 adopt a view which jumps with my precon- 

 ceptions. Science seems to me to teach in the 

 highest and strongest manner the great truth 

 which is embodied in the Christian conception 

 of entire surrender to the will of God." 



It will doubtless be difficult for many to 

 reconcile these two statements, which seem 

 rather hopelessly contradictory; but when one 

 considers how the dailv work of a man of 

 science becomes his chief concern, his religion 

 if you will, how it is bound up within him 

 to the exclusion of almost everything else, one 

 can see why the contradiction is only an ap- 

 parent and not a real one. The tendency of 

 modern thought along this and many other 

 lines of religious dogma seems to be more and 

 more away from the old traditional beliefs to- 

 ward something more consistent with present 

 day notions of natural phenomena. In this 

 the scientific thought of the past quarter cen- 

 tury has made a profound impression, whether 

 for ultimate good or evil it is impossible to 

 state. The fact is that as we begin to learn 

 a little more concerning rational causes of 

 material operations we become impatient and 

 are in danger of overriding the mark and land- 

 ing in the slough of the unknowable. Many 



