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

SCIENCE AND D/YINE INTHRPOSITION. 305in human life, and truthfulness in utterance,or justice in action, will maintain a harmonyof the inner life, whether outwardly therebe poverty or wealth. These two orders oflaw are independent, yet interwoven in theirapplication to the complex life of man. Immoralitywill find its accompaniment in physicaldisorder; the repentance which has healingpower within the mind will not healthe body, yet may there be advance in morallife by reason of the weakness and sufferingwhich repentance can not remove. Such isat once the independence and the interdependenceof physical and moral law, in accordancewith the fixedness of law in eachcase, and the harmony of both under onegovernment, by means of subordination ofthe physical to the moral.There are thus two spheres, physical andmoral, but one life, brought to harmony underthe laws of both spheres. What then isthe bearing of this distinction of spheres onthe problem of the efficacy of prayer, viewingthe question only in the light of scienceand philosophy? An obvious bearing, in so,far as the conditions of physical and morallife are set forth and distinguished; but no