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form. We are to content ourselves with the thought that in 
the “struggle for existence ” the weak must go to the wall, and 
one day there will be a great amount of happiness on the earth. 
But reason which speaks to us of right and wrong, of reward 
and punishment, of probation and destiny, has something else 
and something nobler to say to us about the results of earthly 
struggle. The martyr’s widow bending over the mangled body 
from which a brave true soul has gone, sees farther into the 
affairs of the universe than some of our philosophers and men 
of science can see. Reason does not insult the bereaved 
mother by simply reminding her that a dead body suffers no 
pain. Her living, loving heart suffers pain, and it is to her 
cravings reason through religion seeks to minister. Emerson 
only caricatures this craving when, in his “ Compensation,” 
he represents it as saying, “not being successful, we expect our 
revenge to-morrow.” It is not revenge that reason seeks, but 
simply that the idea of the right shall never be outraged. The 
“new morality” only puts to the lips of dying men a cup of 
Tantalus’s water, when it tells them that they may die with the 
conviction that the world will be wiser one day, and under- 
stand better about comfort and conduct. The “ expectations ” 
of the soul are not realized by any such treatment. 
34. Beethoven styled Bach the “ first parent of harmony.” 
The expression may be permitted ; but Bach was only reporting 
what he heard. There was a harmony to which his reason’s ear 
was listening ; a harmony which came upon him from the 
fountain head of all harmony. From the same source religion 
comes upon us as a song. At its heart there is harmony. Like 
the soft notes of the flute it steals in gentle tones upon reason’s 
ear, and wakes it into sweet responsive sympathy with God. 
Like an all-pervading influence, the reason feels its presence 
and its power; and, understanding by the things that are 
made, the invisible things of God, exclaims : “ Whither shall I 
go from thy presence ? ” As the “ sounds of music creep in 
our ears,” religion comes upon us as a soothing influence, 
detaining us in the divine presence, and holding all our nature 
open to the soft cadences of infinite truth and love. That 
truth and love may come upon us through a material world or 
an inspired book. And so, as we think of it, religion and 
science are alike the servants of reason. They exist for it, not 
it for them. And while it can make its voice heard, it will 
allow no separation, will listen to no internal quarrel, no shifting 
of obligation, and no neglect of respective duty. They are 
closely linked, and the connection must not be severed. 
Reason bids them both do their utmost to harmonize a discor- 
dant world. It works through both, speaks through both, and 
