Goodwill's Weekly I
! VOL.22 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 31, 1914 No. 6 H
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Science and Religion
A GREAT many people now living heard
Professor Tyndall lecture. It is but a very
few years since he died. He did not believe in
any form of revealed religion. His was an ab
i solutely scientific mind. What was not suscep
tible of proof, he rejected. Hugh Miller in try
ing to reconcile his scientific knowledge with
the teachings of the bible went distraught and
killed himself. Tyndall in the pride of his sclen
tiilQ achievements, decided that the purported
facts of the bible were but the compilations of
oriental imaginations that would not bear the
test of scientific research. Each established
what they believed to be indisputable truths
about the processes of nature; neither seemed
ever to question themselves whether or not what
they had proven was all that could be discovered
relating to the question under consideration.
They each looked from the bottom of the trail
up and knew naught of tho glories which at the
summit were revealed.
t Tyndall goes into history as the man who
more than any other man "made known the
great scientific truth of the mutual convertibility
1 of heat and motion." Were he still alive would
he not have to correct some of the btatemento
which he made? He was one who agreed that
" X the universe was mado of atoms. Did he ever
think that each atom was a little world, holding
I ' in its matrix thousands of other atoms? He
i said: "We cannot bo content with knowing that
I the light and heat of tho earth illuminate and
' ' warm tho world. We are led irresistibly to en
's t quire, what is light, and what is heat?"
Then he proceeded to explain. Ho ascribed
both to tho light and heat of the sun transferred
K to us on waves of ether.
Ho accepted tho belief that the sun was a
i rolling globe of fire, consuming annually material
I enough to make a planet, and that such light and
tf heat as come to tho earth come on waves of
j ether, but he never tried to explain, how the heat
: I' was maintained through millions of miles of
1 space that is vastly colder than ice, except that
ft this was accomplished by the motion of the
4 f waves that it came on.
J The first assumption makes the sun a world
I' . that is consuming Itself, and which at last must
burn itself out, and of course leave all the planets
but frozen and dark derelicts flooding in tho
abysses of space. As though in God's economy
j so fearful a tragedy was made inevitable. The
1 other theory that the heat comes through that
! fearful distance of frozen space is still more
untenable.
' How vast tho pity is that Tyndall could not
have lived to seo one arc light and to know that
its substance was gathered by machinery turned
by a motor power miles away and transmitted
on a wire to where, under man's guidance, it
Hashed out in its constituent elements, precisely
the same light as that of the sun. Then when
he learned further that cold is a natural conduc
tor of electricity, that the natural conclusion Is
that tho parent sun throws off electricity to his
planets, that when it strikes our atmosphere then
the friction begins which heats tho air around
us, and when the atmospheric conditions are
right for it, the surplus electricity blazes out in
electric storms with its thunder drums rolling,
and sometimes bends down to rend the oak or
crush some structure reared by man?
And could he have lived until a wireless mes
sage was brought to him, the words say of a
iriend from whom he was separated by moun
tains and valleys and rolling oceans. What
would he have said then? Would it not have
been in the words of Newton:
"To myself I seem to have been only like a
boy playing on the sea shore and diverting my
self in now and then finding a smoother pebble
or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great
ocean (of truth) lay all undiscovered before
me."
Tyndall said the study of science intensified
the Imaginations of men. Our thought is that a
profound study of the sciences ought, with every
succeeding problem solved, make the proudest
man grow humble in the consciousness of how
little he knows.
But the doors of science are being opened
more and more frequenlty all the time; the more
that are opened the richer are the treasurrs
found within; with each new discovery God's
power and God's mercy are the more . apparent,
and this is so manifest that wo do not think it
unreasonable to believe, that, after all, it will be
science through its rovealments that will cause
all men to bow in reverence to the power that
fashioned the universe and set its mysterious
planets and suns, fully freighted and compari
Boned, on their sublime voyages.
Forecast Speculations
THE Oregonian calls attention to the very
well-known fact that "the south is in the
saddle." Tho president is a southern man with
a southern wife; all of the chief committeemen
In uungress with two or three exceptions are
southern; Mr. "Underwood runs the house, his
party is in the majority, he and two or three
men shape all the legislation, and the caucus,
old-fashioned democratic leglBaltlon votes solidly
as the caucus is directed. While up to date the
legislation has been generally broad there are
exceptions. A heavy duty was left on mohair
which is chiefly produced in the south, while it
was taken entirely from wool which is mostly
from tho we3t.
But future legislations is wb f worries the
Oregonian. "Will the support heretofore given
to bring water on irrigated lands be changed to
draining swamp lands in tho south? wo may
here remark that the swamp lands in all of
tho states belong to the states and tho only
way the government could interpose would bo to
.loan states the money to drain them. Will
money appropriations be made for improving
rivers and harbors In the east and south, and
the west be neglected?"
We are not apprehensive that way. The
president and his particular friends in congress H
mean to bo broad. Tho only thing that will in- VJH
terposo will bo Inherent, deep down, almost H
hereditary prejudices. For instance, on the H
tariff, we can understand that Mr. Wilson and H
Mr. Underwood having been brought up to tho H
idea that a protective tariff was an injury, could H
gather in their souls tho belief that if it could H
bo expunged It would help tho north as much as H
tho south. Then tho democracy of tho south H
was In tho saddle most of tho time for sixty H
years prior to 18C0. Tho northern democracy H
was always obedient to thoir behests, and they H
grew to believe that thoy were a superior raco H
and entitled to rule, and, when ousted from H
power, in their fury thoy determined to Jest" H
the country.' Wo speak, of cours?, of thd it d- H
ers. The south generally which had a hJCttotr"o H
the war at first joined with them and Uif'Tiilass H
in tho north which was always accusto348d to H
their guidance and control simply rp"-'. J tfiem- H
selves into a sullen band, giving tbifi t Ar H
moral support and as much of their wwjv ifo y- PAVJ
port aB they could without taking, it in H
their behalf. H
Wo believe that Mr. Wilson an jarty H
really want to mako a broad succee jse of H
their power for honest reasons, an " the H
campaign which will como two y . hence H
must bo prepared for. Behind every ouestlon H
they will consider will be, "What offec ill this H
have on the election In 191(5?" ' It is ti toon to H
judgo that election yet. H
We notice in the dispatches that some prom- H
inent Progressive has received a note from Mr. H
Roosevelt that ho will be present in the cam H
palgn. As though anyonu over doubted that ho H
would, and his voice will be for no compromise H
at all. Our private belief is that ho contracted H
with the Democracy in 1912 to mako so big a H
diversion from tho Republican party that a Dom- H
ocrat would be elected and It Is possible that H
contract is a hangover, that the terms of it im- H
plied that if necessary he would repeat tho per- H
formance in 191G. All tho time it was whispered H
to him that his magnetism, his winsomo ways PAfl
to tho unthinking would possibly elect him pres- H
ident. If not in 1916, then certainly in 1920. In M
that we get tho key to his present position. Ho H
is In for Roosevelt. What he really wants more H
than anything else 's office and spoils. If ho H
had to surrender tho office for six years yet he PA
will be sure of the Bpoils and will have a good H
timo calling peoplo liars In the meantime. Of M
course, without him, were some boa cor stridor H
to take a couple of twists on him down in the M
chaparral of South America, that would end M
tho Progressive party. But ho plays in luck. M
He will como homo all right. Without him there M
is nothing that is not either anarchistic or crazy M
in the Progressive platform that tho Republicans M
would not accept. With him they will not want IH
to accept. lawJ
Wo judgo men sometimes by tho company M
they keep, in 1912 he would have been helpless jH
' from tho start except for Mr. Perkins. Mr. Per- B
kins went out of the firm of J. P. Morgan and H
Company very rich and for sometime aspired to B
be president. Ho wrote fool essays and deliv- M
ered fool speeches, and when his own prospects jH
did not look good for nomination he joined in to M
support Roosevelt. He provided the sinews of M
war to herd tho rabble for the primaries and to H
carry on the campaign. Then tho Colonel had