36 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



a contribution of science to religion, and a powerful 

 extension or modification of the idea that Jesus saw 

 so clearly and preached so persistently. He had felt 

 that benevolence, and then preached it among men. 

 Modern science has brought forward evidence for its 

 belief. True, it has changed somewhat the conception 

 and the emphasis, as was to have been expected, for 

 it is this constant change In conception with the ad- 

 vance of thought and of knowledge that we are here 

 attempting to follow. But the practical preaching of 

 modern science — and it it is the most Insistent and 

 effective preacher in the world to-day — is extraordi- 

 narily like the preaching of Jesus. 



Its keynote is service, the subordination of the indi- 

 vidual to the good of the whole. Jesus preached it as 

 a duty — for the sake of world salvation. Science 

 preaches it as a duty — for the sake of world progress. 

 Jesus also preached the joy and satisfaction of service: 

 "He that findeth his life shall lose It; and he that 

 loseth his life . . . shall find It." When the modern 

 scientist says he does it "for the fun of it," or "for 

 the satisfaction he gets out of It," he is only translat- 

 ing the words of Jesus into the modern vernacular. 

 It would be hard to find a closer parallel. 



Concerning what ultimately becomes of the indi- 

 vidual in the process, science has added nothing and it 

 has subtracted nothing. So far as science is concerned 

 religion can treat that problem precisely as It has In the 

 past; or it can treat it in some entirely new way If it 

 wishes. For that problem is entirely outside the field 

 of science now, though it need not always remain so. 

 Science has undoubtedly been responsible for a certain 

 change in religious thinking as to the relative values 



