RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 269, 15 November 1887, Page 7

RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

,-eeBOOB INSTINCT ffl M :• , man."

• v the Rev. H. J- Lewis gave this occasion being "The MSm& Th r waSa *ldance at the Newton Congrega. , Lh, where the lectures are every Sunday evemng. Iceman opened his subject by anecdote of twe, travellers by E Edinburgh and London who, fSsoleoccupantsofacarriagesatfar ,nd eyed each other askance-there ■ tiv been a murder committed JMSeHsive. On arriving at mW/ v K n n however, they were surr T -The preacher compared this SftheatA of freethought and SthMW"«« e - ved each other asSSU*cion, but i they cou d eye they would probably $f t £y were mends after all. The ffiny flesh crieth out for the living i%* that I knew where I might 'a." and "As for me, I shall behold En righteousness; I shall be satisKen I awake with Thy likeness.' *&ts he said, were illustrative ot hunger after God.They gSVeibab there was a God, but IS specimens of hundreds of pasIf the poetry of every language Lid prove that, whether or not there S, aaii Wanted one. We are combr&e constitution of our nature to v object possessed of qualities which MHBnd our reverence ; we are comifKwiaifol experience to admit that memob find perfect satisfaction iaroerdyimman object; and we are LJg by the analogies both of ,i| experience to cling to the congsthattheremustbeperfect satisfaction jSßiieeire somewhere. Where can it |"Si4't Our nature cries out for igfljom we can find perfect justice, iIM and we are compelled to clinp i«iiTO(aon that there must be perjllig&ction for this instinct of ours jpT : ,"fie would say, "Don't ext6 prove it as certain that there is to Wi2 and 2 make 4." If he could iiPfcey had as good reason for in the faithfulness and love of <"lod teglfot'instancein the reputatiou ifij'piin, in the soundness of a i|afiislityofafriend, the love of ifl,topjih|3r or wife, he would have ll|?ete'ndedtodo atid all that any sable man had any right to ask. He y^Jpsho*'that the instincts of our riHmtitnal nature cried out for God. iejjjkji H9W do we know that there these instinct's, and he ijMtjsteandeee."Experience was the sisis?e t«st pf the worth of any instinct. ifaiev that food was made to satisfy ip,' , to sleep was sent to refresh satfflf, invigorate t)ie.body and exhili!!(tl«Mai ! Fellowship-with God was iW far ffhjch pur moral and spiriti'ma hungered, because that food Si? Oar moral and spiritual strength, iMse&Mped us to do our duty, to bear liwind temptations as nothing else in Stnld could; While he could not enS»gs thole'who were bewildered with tet»lielieve that any good would come itrjk» towallow theories about God ifljjti»ged jsature and conscience, he bis hearers that faith in the %GodWM the soul's highest health, eittteojit niost dangerous. If God 'fijht'in nature, in science, in His '4 sJoyalsJoyal and reverent obedience to and above all in Jesus Christ, Wiafefdun'd by a personal experience W?iaci|)g than all the demonstration '!«|prjd. ' Written questions, which were drbppe d in a box which J?Mcjdior their reception, and the lecw promised to answer them next Sun-