sire for knowledge. The impulse to- know is native to man. 

 On a lonely country road you see a man in a field at a diat- 

 anee, doing something. You slower your pace and put your 

 eyea steadily upon him for an instant. Yon want to know 

 what he is doing, how he is doing it, and the end he has in 

 view in doing it. Now"", there is a right and a wrong method 

 of arriving at this and all other truth ; and modern science 

 has delivered us from the false, and instructed us in the 

 true way. In the pursuit of truth it is open eyed, and ob- 

 servant. It takes nothing, for granted, but feeling and 

 seeing for itself, with note book in its hand, it carefully 

 sets down what it sees, hears and feel©, that it may, in 

 the study, under the lamp of thought, compare, classify 

 and verify. The sprit de core of his order is a sense for 

 facts. If a member of the oi-der ima^gines that he has 

 been at the North Pole, though he never was there ; or 

 says he was there though he was not, he will be stripped 

 of his buttons. I know that some theologians call atten- 

 tion to the conflicting findings of scientists, and point out 

 that their theories, like Kilkenny cats, eat one another up. 

 But this does not cast down science from its pedestal as 

 a school of intellectual veracity. If so, theological„ science 

 must suffer the same humiliation, for it is as open to the 

 charge of int'Cmecine war as physical science, and that 

 to a great-er degree, for disputing theologians have burnt 

 each other at the stake, and I have not heard of opposing 

 scientists going so far. They devour one another's theories, 

 but not one another. But "you too" is no answer. The 

 true reply toi this charge is that in searching alter truth 

 there are always guesses, or hypotbesies, on the way to be 

 tested and veiified. Science, by its inductive method, re- 

 lying on experience, has taught us to use our own eyes, 

 and when this is impossible, to make sure of the clear and 

 careful eyes of these in whom we trust. This way of reach- 

 ing tlae truth has been practised, in principle, in all ages. 

 Frances Bacon exalted it to a conscious method and made 

 it the pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night in travel- 



