Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1881 — Beaconsfield’s Religion. [ARTICLE]

Beaconsfield’s Religion.

[LoUuUr.] Chanes, necessity, vtomic theories, nebular hypotheses, development evolution, the origion of the worlds, human ancestry—and what then ? There must be design, The reasoning and the research of all philosophy could not be valid against that conviction, f there were no design, why, it would all be nonsense, and he could not believe in nonsense. And if there were design, there must be intelligence, and if intelligence, pure intelligence; and pure inte ligence was inconsist* tent with any disposition but perfect good. • « ♦ Man requires that there shall be direct relations between the created and the Creator, and that in these relations be should find a solution of the perplexities of existence. The brain that teems with illimitable thought will never recognize as his C reator any power of nature, however irresistible, that is not gifted with consciousness. Atheism mav be consistent with fine taste; and fine tasteTulF der certain conditions may for a time regulate a polished society; but ethics with atheism are impossible,' and without ethics no human order can be strong or permanent. - * , w