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

64 SCIBNCE AND RELIGION.the lowest microscopic organisms, far beyondhigher organic forms, and the consequentweakness of ordinary human devices in strugglingagainst the development of such germs.These experiments also emphasize the needfor attention to the laws of rational procedure,as well as to skill in experimental observation,if science is to be exempted fromneedless toils.Theology has here also a lesson of patience,for it may well leave science to do its ownwork, undisturbed by apprehensions as topossible consequences to morality and religion.All that the telescope can reveal, andthe microscope can make known, throughyears of experimenting, we wish to have discovered,for only thus shall we come to understandthe world's lessons of wisdom andpower lying far beyond the range of our unaidedvision. All the churches of Christ havereason to hail the extension of scientific knowledge.Those who set high account on patientinterpretation of the written Revelation, havereason to value this laborious reading out ofthe lessons written in the book of Nature.A wider and more general result may beexpected than that which bears directly on