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

304 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.undeviating uniformity of occurrence. Thereis no region in which perpetual change can bemore accurately postulated than in the physicalworld. But there is order and system inthese changes, admirably illustrated in theweather forecasts of the present advancedstage of physical science, which are attainableonly by continual watching of shiftingconditions with application of fixed law tothe appearance of wind and cloud and rain.But there are no forecasts without these twothings, fised laws and varying conditions fortheir application. With the widsr generalizationwhich admits of recognition of fixedlaw, there is always the narrower, concernedwith variable conditions to which the wider isto be applied. So it is under moral law, andso under spiritual. So also does it hold whenour observation is directed on interdependenceof two orders of law, such as the moraland physical. This combination we have inhuman life, as it is subjected to both. Physicallaw reigns in human history as illustratedby the laws of health, which are Gxed irrespectiveof moral law, so that sewerage gaswill be prejudicial to health, apart from themoral character of a man. Moral law reigns