Providence and Life; Select Sermons Preached in the Broadway Church, New York (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869. Excerpt: ... And the Scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself) is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God. Mark xil 32-34. The grandest utterance of modern science is the announcement, that the stud' of nature is the perusal of the Creator's thoughts. That our systems and classifications are not convenient contrivances of our own ingenuity, but the way-marks of Infinite intelligence, by which the human mind instinctively apprehends and traces out the plan of the Divine. Natural philosophy, therefore, appears not as a proud structure of man's invention, but as a method of reverent study and faithful interpretation. And thus does science, in its boldest and most independent investigations, attain to the long-felt realities of faith, and bear voluntary witness to the great truths of religion. And it will be observed that this testimony is twofold--having reference to God, and having reference to man. These discoveries in the natural world about us. make known at once the Divine source of being, ai, d the dignity of that humanity by which this source of being is recognized and approached. The conclusion seems irresistible. There is no evidence that mere forms of matter, or currents of physical force, do themselves think. But, in the relations of matter--in the adjustments by which bone is linked to bone, and sinew to sinew, and the eye fitted to the light, and the light suited to the eye, and part bears reference to part, and all p...