Religion and Science

(Properly understood) are inseparable companions. Without religion, science would die of asphyxia. Christianity is the patron and generator of science. I pity the man who longs for a world of what he calls science with the sun of religion burned out. I would mourn for the country page 6 which has a hard, dry, icy, scientific policy with no genial beams from the inspiring, ameliorating sun of religion, to mollify, warm, and quicken its heart of hearts. Science cannot grow charity: it is too stern. It may give forth justice, but can we all stand the cold iron grasp of the hand of justice, while we feel no hand of mercy, to give a glass of water, or to adjust the pillow beneath our racking head? Religion despises the man, who, to gain an end, will make himself so mean as to play the hypocrite. In religion alone is the true essence of manhood developed. There is no religion in the hypocrite. Some men don't seem to know what religion is. That is because they are not themselves religious; and because they see some men who "pretend to be religious" acting corruptly, they say religion must be bad, or religious men would live more consistently. If all religious men acted so, they might have some reason for blaming the cause rather than the men. But those who decry us say these corrupt, religious men are hypocrites, and therefore by their own words they justify religion and condemn its counterfeit. Hence their logic is bad. Religion embraces everything that is good and true and just and kind and pure, from the nursery to the legislative halls of the nation, and to the boundless expanse of the magnificent universe. Religion centres in God, and ramifies through all His works. It shines in the glorious sun, and is reflected by the minutest insect. The ocean sings the songs of God, and the tempest sounds His praise. Religion can only be absent from things of evil. That which is for man's good cannot dispense with it. Where it is not, good cannot come to maturity. But this lecturer longs to procure complete and irreparable separation between