Scriptural Foundations: Science and the Word of God
FROM “SCRIPTURAL FOUNDATIONS.”
“I HAVE no desire to belittle science. It is an indispensable necessity. It has a noble work. It ‘opens to the mind vast fields of thought and information.’ Science has its own peculiar field. It has a work to perform after its own peculiar methods to its own special ends. The word of God was never meant to supplant it, nor to interfere with it. But it was meant to be an aid, and by suggestions and plain declarations, it is an all-efficient help. Without it we are left wholly to our own speculations and our own blind guess. By it we are led to take the right way, and to move ever on in the investigation of truth.” “God is as much the author of science as He is the author of the Bible. True, men hate His way, and long to disprove His statements; but the result of their investigations always shows that God is true, and that men are liars. Let us not add unto His words, lest He reprove us, and we be found liars. He has certainly reproved men in this matter of the motion of the stars. It is always unsafe to dispute His word. Let us rather believe it, for it will vitalize our science and save our souls.” Our ministers and teachers are receiving much benefit from this excellent little book. It is beautifully bound; contains 272 pages, and sells for 75 cts., postpaid. Send all orders to the State Tract Societies.