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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
He said the town must spend that 
amount before the state reimburses. 
E. P. Stanley said that if the town 
spent $5000 to do this work and the as- 
sessors assessed private owners $300 that 
sum ($300) comes back to the treasurer, 
but does not go back to the moth fund. 
F. K. Hooper: The town gets back 
no part of this $2500 we appropriate to- 
night. 
The motion to appropriate $2500 was 
then put and carried. 
Art. 3. To appropriate $5400 to pay 
Manchester’s apportionment of the cost 
of the Cut bridge at Gloucester. 
F. K. Hooper stated, on behalf of 
the Finance committee, that the com- 
mittee felt that the assessment was more 
than the town should pay, but as the 
selectmen felt that the apportionment as 
asked for be paid they recommended it. 
E. S. Knight read the warrant from 
the County Commissioners which gave 
the cost of the bridge as $72,000 and the 
expense to be paid by the county, Glou- 
cester and three adjoining towns. E. 
P. Stanley moved $5400 be appropriated. 
Carried. 
Art. 4. The Finance committee re- 
commended the appropriation of $3200 
for interest on water bonds. E. S. 
Knight explained that the financial year 
closes Feb. 1. He did not careso much 
for the appropriation being made as to 
being ready to pay the bill when it was 
due on March 1. 
On motion of F. J. Merrill $3200 
was appropriated to pay the interest on 
the water bonds when due. 
Art. 5. E. S. Knight said this article 
was inserted because the town was called 
upon to pay out $11,000 not counted up- 
on. He did not think it would be _nec- 
essary to hire any more money, but he 
wanted authority intrusted in the treasur- 
er to hire the money in case it was need- 
ed. On motion of E. P. Stanley the 
town treasurer was authorized to hire 
not exceeding $10,000 if it was found 
necessary. 
A vote of thanks was extended the 
moderator for his services. 
The meeting dissolved at 8.02. $11,- 
100 had been appropriated. 
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THE SCIENTIFIC FOOL. 
At the Baptist church, Manchester, 
Jast Sunday evening, the pastor, Rev. 
Theodore Lyman Frost, preached on 
““ The Scientific Fool,’ the last in his 
series of evening sermons on “‘ Fools.’’ 
He took for his text Psalm 14: 1-—‘‘ The 
fool hath said in his heart: No God.’’ 
He said in part: 
‘“’The type of character designated by 
Scientific Fool’ is hard to find in the 
Scriptures. The reason for this is evi- 
dent. “The modern discoveries had not 
taken place and the modern spirit of 
scientific investigation was lacking. In- 
deed the modern spirit of investigation 
does not come until the Reformation, 
although its first traces are seen among 
those called in history the ‘ Humanists.’ 
‘“ As a great deal of the new theology 
and new thought is practically the stale 
musty herisies which vexed the early 
church revamped, so we may look for 
traces of the scientific fool even in the 
Old Testament. 
_ “There were men as seen from our 
text even in Bible times who denied in 
their hearts the existence of God’s moral 
government. God might exist but they 
believed He had no part in the morals of 
men. ‘Todeny God’s moral govern- 
ment is but a step towards denying His 
exisence, and in the time of Jeroboam 
the Second the processes of nature were 
practically defied and the worship of 
God was nearly extinct. To this nation 
of fools God sent His prophet Hosea.’’ 
Mr. Frost drew three pictures of this 
type of character: one of the scientist 
so enraptured over his scientific discov- 
eries and the laws of nature that he does 
not see anything beyond the laws them- 
selves; another of a man who is _ inter- 
ested in what is new and who sees that 
there is a very complete system of Jaw in 
the universe and thinks that law is prac- 
tically the only God; and another picture 
of a man who accepts all that the scien- 
tists say and believes science is sure and 
religion uncertain, and who laughs at 
those who believe in God and religion. 
Speaking of the fool’s folly Mr. Frost 
said: ‘* This fool denies the first cause, 
God. ‘The nebular hypothesis of La 
Place is good, but who set the mass of 
nebulous matter spinning which caused 
the different solar systems? How do 
& % & 
you account for the regularity and system 
in the universe? How do you explain 
the knowledge and intelligence we 
possess. Human intelligence is un- 
accountable apart from God. 
‘““ This fool also disbelieves the Bible 
and believes that science is certain. 
What is science? It is ‘accumulated 
and established knowledge which has 
been systematized and formulated with 
reference to the discovery of general 
truths, or the operation of general laws.’ 
Yet science is by no means certain. 
The astronomers do not know the dis- 
tance of the sun from the earth within 
250,000 miles. Life is just as far from 
analysis of the surgeon’s knife today as 
it was from the crude observations of the 
ancients. Chemistry tells us that mental 
activity is connected with the production 
of phosphorus in the brain. But why 
does phosphorus in one man’s brain pro- 
duce good thoughts and in another man’s 
brain produce evil thoughts? You can- 
not forecast the weather more than three 
times out of four. 
‘*Turn to religion. Is not religion as 
accurate as science and even more s0. 
It begins in God. It continues in God 
and it ends in God.”’ . 
The preacher in speaking of the fool’s 
end told the parable of the pins who 
reasoned in meta physics and even came 
to disbelieve in an inventor. ‘‘ But the 
inventor smiled and dealt with each gen- 
eration of pins as he saw fit. Men may 
be so pin-headed, so dull in their per- 
ceptions, that they may deny God, but 
God will deal with men in their folly. 
Their end is terrible, for it is written: 
“But for the fearful, and unbelieving, 
and abominable, and murderers, and 
fornicators and idolators, and all liars, 
their part shall be in the lake that birneth 
with fire and brimstone; which is the 
second death.’ 
‘* Not satisfied with the revelation of 
Himself in nature, God has revealed 
Himself to man in His Holy Scriptures. 
Yes He has even done still more: He 
has revealed Himself in His Son Jesus 
Christ who can speak to us with a 
human voice, and died for us on the 
Cross. The voice of Jesus bids you 
follow in the paths of purity, peace and 
power. Play not the fool and turn from 
Him who seeks to save you!’’ 
Beverly, Mass. 
