The following clipping from a daily newspaper shows that the possibility of a Scientific church has dawned upon some minds which, a few years since, scoffed at the suggestion of a Scientific religion:
After Mr. Sankey had sung and the audience had joined in a swelling chorus, Joseph Cook was introduced. He said: Supply follows demand in history. As in recent ages there has been a demand for the diffusion of liberty, property and intelligence, there will soon be a demand for the diffusion of conscientiousness and there will come slowly and through much anguish of the ages a supply. I foresee a great day for a scientific Biblical and practical church. Wordsworth talked of an aristocracy. It will not come. Carlyle talked of a government of the best. It cannot be elected. Soon the church and a true church will be all the hope of the world. It will save the world by goodness and truth; by doctrine and practice also. The church must be scientific by a reasonable theology; it must be Biblical by the spirit of the founder of Christianity, by finding in the Holy Spirit a present Christ; it must be practical by carrying vital piety to every death bed, every hearthstone, every cradle.
We should like to submit the query, with reference to the above: What kind of a Scientific church is meant,— one founded on Christian Science (God-Science), or one founded on material science (man-science)?
