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. Scorr Acr Rgergat.—aA petition is be- it is Understood, will be circulated in a few qys. for signatures for the repeal of the

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Kxocxrp into “ Pr.”—-On Wednesday ternoon a page of the St. John Globe wasac- dentally “‘ pied,” the matter containing, be- des editorial! and locals, a full report of Mr. lair’s speech in the Local Assembly.

M. C. A. Hall to-morrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock. Lesson ** Christ’s love far the young,” Mark 10 13 to 22. Mr. Barrs will address the meeting. All are wélcome.

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Hore, Burnep.—McManus’ hotel, at Bue- touche, was destroyed by fire on Wednesday morning. Only part of the furniture was saved. Alithe liquors, and also the clothing, _ete., of the guests and inmates were destroy- ‘ed. The adjoining property had a narrow escape. Mr. McManus’ loss is estimated at $3,000; insured for $1,800.

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The Countess de Paris visited Queen Vi-- toric at Biarritz on Sunday.

The Salvation Army has been prohibited from carrying on its work in Berlin.

R. G. Leckie is reported to have resigned the managing directorship of the Cumberland Coal and Kailway Company.

Captain J. W. Hill, a prominent lumberman of Ship Harbor, died on the 15th. He had been ill some weeks and was en route from

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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY BY PERCY POPE, ESQ.— PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THE SOCIETY.

| Io announcing my subject, I do so with a ‘full consciousness of the apparent presumption ‘of my choice. Not only is it in its entirety beyond the grasp of the most profuund thinker, ‘but the issues involved are of the most vital -importance. Yet in some of its phases iptiust {be a question of practical interest to most jmen, and though we cannot hope to raise it to ithe height of the distinguished scientist or the eminent theologian, nor attain to the finer subtleties of their methods of reasoning, is it |any the less imperative that we should strive for as clear and detinite conclusions as limited powers will admit of our obtaining. The very existence of our society and your presence here this evening is a recognition of this obli- gation.

I trust, therefore, that my remarks may be received in no unfairly critical spirit—anot as a pretentious and exhaustive essay aiming at final solutions, but as a humble presentation ‘ot one phase of a great question which is oc- eupying the minds of must of us, offered in the hope that the interchange of our ideas thereon, if productive of no other result, may be conducive of increased moderation and more careful habits of thought in dealing with this and similiariy important questions.

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; As the heading I have given prob- jably conveys no very definite ideas, iyou will kindly exonerate me from

‘egotium if, in order to set clearly before you that special phase of it to which I wish to direct your attention, | ask you to follow oat with me the train ef thought which led me up to it. When, in common with many of you, I had the pleasure of reading that remarkable novel of Mrs. Humphrey Ward’s, “Robert Elsmere,” eetting aside « keen admiration for its literary exeellencies, what caused me riost reflection was to account for the effect it was credited with producing upon religious thought, par- ticularly on this side of the Atlantic. The more careiuilly I weighed the matter, the more convinced I became that there was nothing either of statement or argunent con- tained in its pages to account for the efect produced—that the explanation was not to be tound in the book, but rather in the minds of its readers. By clothing them in the very re- fineinent of thought and language, it merely gave form and voice to doubts and uncertain- ties which, whether recognized or not, had long been present in theZminds of those it addressed, but which had been re- pressed until the stimulus thus afforded lent them courage to assert themselves. ‘* Robert Elsmere” is simply the expression

useless to shut our eyes to the fact tha’ per-

sent ideas of the Deity and those involved in

the dogmatic teaching of theology, and doubts

as to the accepted vaiue of Biblical testiznony are taking shape in the minds of mauy. The

arrayed against it all the influence of halio-

yet it is ever gathering strength.

Religious belief manifestly owes its origin to the emotional development in man, but it is formed through the agency of reason, and, to be honest, must be sanctioned by it. It is this sanction that is apparently being with- drawn from much that is contained in gener- ally accepted dogmas. To reach the causes thus operating, it seemed to me that the most practical way of conducting the enquiry would be to consider: (Ist) The constitution of the Human Reason, and (2nd) What results must follow from the faet that all existing creeds were constructed through its agency—and this brings us to our subject for discussion this evening.

Weall think, but how many of us ever pause to consider the process. Yet surely some idea of the mechanism employed isessen- tial to a due appreciation of the thing pro- duced,

Analysis reveals the fact that, in thinking, the brain performs three functions, which for our purposes may be defined as Perception, Comparison and Deduction. Perception is that faculty which records our sensations. So far as it is possible to grasp it, the process seems analogous to that of photography, the brain tissue being capable of receiving impres- sions and storing them away available tor future reference. Comparison is that faculty by means of which these mental photographs are arranged, compared, and as the power to do so is developed, analysed. Deluciion is that faculty which determines the reiationship of one perception to another, or the parts of each to other, and wiich arrangs: i new groups. To illustrate:—A child, if asked how far away the moon Is, will compare its

these in

mind possesses (probably the house), and will deduce theretrom that the moon is farther: away, than that. tain a perception of that distance, and he now has another stendard of measurement. duce a perception of the value of numbers, and he can then arrive at a correct idea as to the moon’s real distance. Each of these deduc- tions is a thought. Human knowledge is simply the sum of all thoughts.

pose. The conclusions I wish to press are these : let, That froma the constitution of the human mental apparatus, man’s knowledge is primarily depeudent upon his perceptive powers. Thousands before Newton saw au apple fall. He noticed that it fell downward, and you know the result. 2nd. Man can but express that which by means of comparison he has assimilated through the faculty of de- duction. Suppose you had told the child in the first place that the moon’s distance from the earth is a quarter of a million of miles, could he have made auy use of the tion?

Bearing these two conclusious in mind we will vow proceed to the second part of our enquiry. The effect these truths must have had upon the formation of existing religious belicfe.

Away back in the ages, long hilden from view by the dense musts of time, man almost with his first conscious thonght must have fourd himself confronted with that most vital of all questions: Why ami? And all through ihe countless generations which hav. ‘inhabited the globe from that day to this the ‘struggle for some solution of it has ever been going ov. In some form or other belief: in a | Power which designed man for a definite pur- | pose seems to have been instineijve and uni- The most benighted savage of old

of a movement already well advinced, for it is

“eptiona of the lack of harmony between ‘pre-

force at work must be a strong one, for it has

wed associations and long-accepted ideas, and

apparent height with the highest standard his}

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It would be unwise te attempt a more criti-| cal analysis than this, and foreign to my pur-

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self. The most enlightened scientist of to-day, recognizing the evidences of design all around him, gives in his allegiance to a power Who is none the loss a Diety, because vo avoid misconception he declines to give Him other name than Nature.

As far as we can look back, we find man

ever struggling with this great question. Wrapped in on ‘all sides by au impenetrable veil through which his material faculties were unable to pierce progress seemed impossible. Feeling *« 2 hopelessness of the case he in- voluatari.y turned to superhuman power for aid. In all ages. and of all peoples history telis the same. ‘cially favored individuals, claiming to hu,e obtained these perceptions of the truths they revealed from a super- human source, offered to their fellows partial solutions of it, with rules of life based there- on. These revelations were accepted by man as emanating from Deity, and in lteu of doubts and questionings he received a creed.

This being the case, manifestly the condi- tions of all future thought upon these ques- tions were for him radically changed ; any farther development having to a greater or less extent to be based upon the dogmatic teachings of these revelations. But the evolu- tion of thought had to go on, therefore it be- came necessary from time to time to further define the conceptions of the revelation. Hence founded upon these revelations there grew an accumulation of ideas expressed in the ferm of dogmas, whivh constituted in each instance the oalaion of the people te which it belonged.

During the earlier ages, man’s sole recourse for information regarding his destiny was to be found in revealed religion. What we now know as scierce could not then be said to ex- ist. But with the introduction of written language knowledge began to accumulate. It crept along slowly at first, but gathering new strength with each successive step. Increased perception prodaced new ideas. As these grew in number they began to affurd a basis upon which some conceptions of the plan of the Universe might be founded. This being so Religion, ceased any longer to possess ex- clusive rights. More than that, as the pro- cess went on, and old perceptions became modified in the light of new perceptions, the @eeeds themselves were more or less affected thereby. Livtle by little, the lack of harmony between the old and the new grew more noticeable until at. length the discrepancies between the conceptions which had been gen- erally adopted and the older ones upon which the dogmas had been founded, became so marked that some adjustment had to fol- low. Solong as the dogmatic teaching ofa creed was in advance of the scientific con- ception of the age, it supplied man’s needs, but with the evolution of knowledge we find that every dogmatic conception sooner or later failed co fulfil all the conditions necessary to belief and hence had tw give a to those that would. Turn to the

istory of our own civilization. At the be- ginning of the Christian Era, owing to the in- crease of knowledge the religions of Greece and Rome had become untenable. Even the

Jewish conception of their Mosaic revelation was in many respects below the standard of the higher schools of Grecian Philosophy. Whatever may be said of the spirit the dog- matic teachings of these religions had brought them into disrepute. The world demanded a better religion. It came with Christ and was accepted. Why? Was it not because recog- nizing the law of evolution it fulfilled the needs of man’s enlarged conception, Revealed religion again assumed its old position. But however perfect the revelation, could the creed based upon it be exempt from the causes which had operated on the tormer ones. Dog- matic gteaching®was essential, and from the nature of the human mental constitution this could not rise above the level of the percep- tions of the formulators of it. The evolution as knowledge conld not be stayed. For a time, indeed, the invas.on of Southern Europe by the hordes from the north buried it; but the new race brought a very much keener

vitality. Transplanted to fresh soil it soon again sprang up; the dis- covery of printing gave it new

life; it pushed itself out in ail directions, and as a result, do not science and theology to-day occupy positions relatively similar to those they held at the beginning of the first century? Where dogmas are deemed essential, is not the only course open to the churches to strin- gentiy enforce uvreasoning belief? In de- nominations where thought is encouraged, what proportion of their adherents honestly | betieve the dogmatic teachings of their creeds, notas they individually choose to translate, but in accordance with the conceptions of their formulators? Is this proportion increas- ing or decreasing? Ifthe former, what are we to infer? That religions are false or use-

‘less? That science is the only true source of knowledge? That is not the lessen of the past. Rather it tells us that we are entering

upon a period of re-adjustment similar to that we have just been considering; bids us look 'forward, not to the discrediting of either

.|seience or religion, but merely to the con-

Let him walk a mile and ob-| formiag of the dogmatic teaching of creeds te

| the enlarged conceptions of the age. Indeed, lthe more closely we examine the relative |merits of these two schools of thought, the ; more we are led to believe that their real at- | titnde is not one of hostility, but that in their | action they are, to a greater or less extent, |complementary and supplementary to each | other, that they have 4 common aim—that of | raising humanity to its destined place. | The hostility noticeable seems to centre al- | most wholly around a fundamenta! difference lin their ideas, regarding what may be admit- | ted as a correct basis for deduction; or to par- |ticularize, resolves itself into the question whether conceptions of a revelation may be used as such. If there is a God, the necessity of His revealing Himself must be allowed for the very development of the faculty of reason- ling with which He has endowed man must in | its application to the creation be an unceas- ing revelation of the Creator. This must be admitted. But Theology practically claims to have received certain <lefinite informat{»n concerning the Diety by direct revelatioa, has formulated this, and demands that these for- mulated ideas be accepted as intallible. To this science objects, not on the gronad that a revelation is impossible, but because from the nature of the human mental machinery, any such claim is inadmissable. Most of the dii- culty seems to arise from theologians failing to distinguish clearly between a revelation as it would proceed from Diety and the forri]:- tion of it by man. They identify the Divine emavation with the human conception of it. To exemplify this, let it be admitted that there is a God and that He desires to re- veal Himself toman. Doubtiess, God can reveal all knowledge, but what of man’s capa- city to receive it? So long as he is as he ig

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