THE BUNDLE OF LIFE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13566, 6 November 1912, Page 8

THE BUNDLE OF LIFE.

'.Suppose Professor Schafer is right," wad the RW. 11. J. Campbell, preachimf at the- City TempJe, London, recently, from the text, "Bound in the j bundle of life with the Lord thy God. •'Suppose, for the Bake of discussion, that tho Hfo which we know has not been brought into1 tho world from outeido, has not been created through some distinctive interference on the part of the Deity, but has -appeared spontaneously. What then?" He contended that the situation from the standpoint of religious faith would be in no wise .-Abored. Wo could no more dispense with God then than wo could before. Science is dealing .with phenomena all the timo; it can neither prove nor disprove- tho spiritual man's belief in the commerce of the soul with God.' The criteria of religious experience have no dependence whatever upon the findings of science. Dr. Campbell illustrated his point by telling of a blind itnk\e> who, in his holiday, conducted idm over an old church. The guide It ad been blind from birth, but he knew {-very detail of the church, every inscription on its monuments. He could oven tell visitors where to stand so that they might sco the best effects of light on tho tV'itted-glass windows. And yet, when questioned, the guide two mod to have but tho vaguest conception of beauty, and ho did not know what tho whole church was like. Ho awaited the eternal dawn when these things should bo revealed to him. Scientific knowledge, of itself, was but festo groping of that blind man; the Kjiii'ttual eyes must bo opened in order that the eternal reality may be perceived. As to the possibility of* life arising spontaneously or being created in a laboratory, Mr. Campbell thought that the physical science of tho near future might tell us that there is no ;-;nch thing as dead matter, that all ciatter is actually living, every atom _md every electron being a manifestation of life.