jealousj?; no dispai-agement of the one. at the expenee of 

 the other. Yet tliis is, not aUvaya the case. Sometimea-we 

 hear the insph'ationalist saying: "The perfection of life is to 

 be found in a change of Jieait and not by a change of head." 

 The stand thus t^cen is sound in its affiraaation, for with- 

 out the disposition to raise, the level of life, no effoi-t to 

 raise it will be i^ut forth. But while tlie affnanation is in- 

 diisputable, the negative is not only open to question, it is, 

 on the face of it, untrue, as the whole history of human 

 progress, proves. The spirit of good-\\'ill, which is the 

 dynanaic of the Christian religion^ has been constraining 

 us to hciil the sick, relieve the poor, deal gently with the 

 eiTiiig, and to secure a more equitable distribution of the 

 proeeedft of labor. But of ton, in the past, it- was helpless 

 in the presence of these evils, on account of the causes and 

 the cures not being discovered. The will to heal the sores 

 of om' own economic conditions was present, but how to 

 perfonxi we knew not. We needed to have added to our 

 good-Vv'ill knowledge — euch knowledge as cornes from a 

 study of the natural causes and cures of human ills. In a 

 word the Vv'illing mind, in the kitchen, in the workshop, in 

 the sick room and in governing a city or a oounti'y? is indis- 

 pensable ; but it requires in each case to know how it is to 

 be done. The two must go together. "Mere goodneee, 

 that knows not how to help, is not' enough." Some people, 

 Siays an Italian pai'adox, "are so good that they are no 

 good." And an eminent Scotch divine has said, "Grod- 

 lesB science may be a very poor thing, but ignorant piety, 

 fcO' far a-s any visible help to the world is concerned, is little 

 better." And this is becoming clear to the leaders of the 

 Christian movements. 



Let me offer a few illustrations of this. And first ob- 

 seive that science has taught us the way to the truth of 

 nature. It has been the training school in method. To be 

 particulai', it has shown us the method of aiTiving at the 

 tinith about the world in which we live, and thiough which 

 W? f^aliz^ orurselves. True, scieric^ did not create the de- 



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