EELIGIOUS TRUTH 



\ I / HEN hard pressed, theological writers often 

 ' ' take refuge in the statement that there is 

 some kind of evidence that is superior to scientific 

 evidence in matters that pertain to objects of sense 

 and experience. Thus Dr. Temple, in his Bampton 

 Lectures on the " Relations between Religion and 

 Science," says in behalf of miracles, that if the stu- 

 dent of science is to admit a breach in the uniform- 

 ity of nature, " it can only be by stepping outside of 

 his science for the time and conceiving the possibil- 

 ity that there is some other truth beside scientific 

 truth, and some other kind of evidence beside scien- 

 tific evidence." Unless he does this he is in a 

 groove, and is like " the student who when he first 

 saw a locomotive engine looked perseveringly for the 

 horses that impelled it, because he had never known, 

 and consequently could not imagine, any other mode 

 of producing such motion." But if the student did 

 persevere he surely found the horses at last, a real 

 tangible force that propelled the engine, and one 

 that worked according to uniform law. For my part 

 I confess I cannot conceive of any evidence that can 

 be brought in support of miracles that shall not he in 

 its nature scientific; that is, addressed to our rational 



