Union of Science and Religion.

Science and the churches would be no longer alienated, and the unworthy jealousy and emulation between the various churches, of which their rival creeds are the constant and by far the most effective cause would cease. A real union, founded upon an enlarged basis of relief, would gradually be established, and formal union would not long loiter behind the removal ef every cause of disunion. And when the Protestant Christian world is united, and all its churches combined in one, the open abandonment by the educated laity of the Catholic and the Greek Churches, and the final absorption or total decay of both these churches, would only be a question of time and education.—(Applause.) Do not suppose that I am speaking of results which I believe to be at present possible or near. That abolition of subscription by the clergy in any one or more of the churches would be immediately productive of great results, and would probably lead ultimately to the further results I have indicated, I do believe. But before the initial step of practical church reform can be taken, it is necessary that a spirit which shall point to and demand reform shall first be created in the minds of the laity, and I am bound to admit that I do not perceive at present any indication whatever of such a spirit in any one of these churches. I am aware that I have already exceeded the limit of time which a lecturer is entitled to ask from the most liberal and indulgent page 22 audience; and yet I will crave your permission to add another word. I would ask you, my brother laymen, are you entirely satisfied and content with the state of things now existing in your own and in the other Christian Churches?