Notes of a Sermon Preached by the Rev. C. E. Derwent la Union Church, Tientsin, Sunday Evening, Feb: 3
Yeats Acts XII. 20. king's country."
"Because their country was fed from the 1, oppose that Professor J. Arthur Thomson is the most eminent naturalist that the Brit.
therefore muke no apology for Joh Empire possessen, One need taking a title and—pleaty of Muateations from a recent article of his on the title, It sains useless to read; if one does rot use one's reading for the illumination of divine truth; Professor Thomaon sys that "one of the central ideas of modern " biology is that of the Hinkage of life." A. very striking ase. He quotes a fine phrase
Dnder a cloud, "to. this effect, philosopher, now undeservedly eld John "Locke, the
Kvery part of nature is a, retainer of some other most remarkable provision of modern thought. Every part of nature is like a retaiver of one of the old barons; dependent on him. That is very fine. Professor Thomson says that "the new biology puts the correlation of organisms in the centro of ita thinking," a Latinized way of ed. The day when we were tol aving that all things are relat-that, "nature is a bitter trid eeascloss—atrugylet? past. Nature in not so "red in, tooth and claw' og Wwe were once told was. Creatures do not spend their whole time in clawing one nother, but spend a great deal in helping one another. hin, by. the way, ina teseon to all those who, make ita reproach to the Church that, she changes hor viewpoint" occasionally. 'They shy she contrasts badly with the fixity of science, 'The answer that neienco changes, just, the ame, as. we seo here, Yot loses none' of her credit. Why should the Chuveh of Christ'?
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