Article October 15, 1904 Issue

The Scriptures tell us that "God saw every thing that he...

Clarence A. Buskirk

Muncie (Ind.) Star

The Scriptures tell us that "God saw every thing that he had made, and behold, it was very good." Paul says, "The things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal." Many similar Scriptural classifications could be quoted, if space permitted. The late Professor Huxley wrote, "I repudiate as philosophical error, the doctrine of materialism." "What is this terrible thing called matter, after all, except the unknown, hypothetical cause of states of our own consciousness?" Professor Allen Gray, writing of the eminent natural scientist, Professor Tyndall, says, "The charge of materialism could only be brought against such a man by those abject materialists who have never had a glimpse of the profounder fact that the universe as known to us consists wholly of mind, and that matter is a doubtful and uncertain inference of the human intelligence." To say that matter is "reality," as Rev. Randle is reported to have said, is to espouse the side of those characterized by Professor Allen Gray as "abject materialists." It is unfortunate that those who claim to be champions of religion, should be found using the notions of the rankest materialism in their arguments against Christian Science. Clarence A. Buskirk.
Muncie (Ind.) Star.

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