This material world which we do see, is as much God's world as the
spiritual world we do not see. And, therefore, the one cannot
contradict the other; and the true understanding of the one will
never hurt our true understanding of the other.
But many good people have another fear, and that, I think, a far more
serious one. They are afraid, in consequence of all these wonderful
discoveries of science, that people will begin to trust in science,
and not in God. And that fear is but too well founded. It is
certain that if sinful man can find anything to trust in, instead of
God, trust therein he surely will.
The old Jews preferred to trust in idols, rather than God; the
Christians of the Middle Age, to their shame, trusted in magic and
astrology, rather than God; and after that, some 200 years ago, when
men had grown too wise to trust in such superstitions, they certainly
did not grow wise enough, most of them, to trust in the living God.
They relied, the rulers of the nations especially, in their own wit
and cunning, and tried to govern the world and keep it straight, by
falsehood and intrigue, envy and jealousy, plotting and party spirit,
and the wisdom which cometh not from above, but is earthly, sensual,
devilish,--that wisdom against which we pray, whenever we sing 'God
save the Queen,' -
'Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
GOD save the Queen.
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