The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

laws distinct in character, the harmony of thewhole is secured by the subordination of physicallaw to moral and spiritual. It is in themidst of this harmonized relationship of thediverse laws of the divine government that thespirit of prayer lives, and makes good its rationalconsistency. And it is only on conditionof acknowledgment of diverse laws, includingmoral with physical, that the scientificman can interpose any criticism as to theefficacy of prayer. Any denial of a moralgovernment in the midst of the physical universe,under sway of a God of righteousness,places an objector entirely out of the spherein which criticism can proceed. Physical lawdetermining conditions of bodily life is fixedlaw; moral law deciding the conditions of rightconduct in intelligent life is fixed law; spirituallaw deciding the conditions of fellowshipwith the Father of our spirits is fixed law.The believer in the Bible has no hesitancyin acknowledgment of all this; he is a believerin fixed law in a higher and grandersense than scientific teaching indicates, andhe believes in the harmony of all existenceunder an unchangeable government, notwithstandingall the wrong doing in the world,