# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1906_S519
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches. 519

„ToO much theory on too little fact.“ So charakterisiert und kritisiert
das Chicagoer Blatt A4dvance die modernen „exakten“ Wissenschaften. Es
schreibt dem Lutheran Mitness zufolge: Lach new discovery of any im-
portance sends a lot of other alleged discoveries to à graveyard which is
already overcrowded with dead theories. A pretty large part of the
La Place theory was hung upon the belief that the earth was cooling, and
the sun cooling, and everything else cooling except politics and the pursuit.
of money. The scientists had us almost persuaded that the time would
come when we should be compelled to build up a fire to keep the sun
warm. With the coal barons in full possession of everything in the fuel
line which the Standard Oil Company did not own, this made a rather
chilly prospect. But now comes this timely information that the sun is
not cooling at all, and that the earth is not cooling, and that there is no
danger whatever that we shall have to go to the rainless plains of Arizona
to keep warm in July. But with such an upsetting of all the calculations
of the physicists' in five years what is likely to happen to their-fine
theories in a thousand million years'? The probability is that there
won't be enough of them left to hang the shadow of a recollection upon.
The nebulous theory may yet become so nebular that the most powerful
imagination will not be able to discover a trace of it in the whole region
of scientifie hypothesis. And, also, what is the use of getting out à new
book every spring and fall to tell the world that science is upsetting religion?
When seience gets through upsetting itself, it will be time enough to take
stock of the remains. But why is it that seientific theories are so easily
overthrown by new discoveries? Simply because the theories lack sufficient
foundation. Build a very large house on a very small underpinning and it
will soon go down. Scientists have been given to building too much theory
on too little fact. They make a little one-story discovery and then build a
168tory theory. Of course it does not stand. There is nothing which some
scientists need so much to study as the Bible. For it is the book which
would teach them the importance of everlasting foundations.“ F. B.

Aus Mason City, Jowa, teilt Tne AuH½ustang Journal vom 25. August
folgende Anzeige in einer dortigen Tageszeitung mit: Every communicant
of the First Methodist Episcopal Church who deésires to share in com-
munion services next Sunday is requested by Dr. W. W. Carlton, the
pastor, to bring a spoon. Instead of sipping from the cup and passing it
from lip to lip, as heretofore, partakers in the service will dip their
spoons into the wine and drink each his own portion. The pastor's in-
novation is a result of an agitation in Iowa churches against the common
use of the communion cup, it being held that the old custom is a means of
spreading diseases.“ — Je geringer die Furcht vor Gott und seinen heiligen
Ordnungen, desto größer die Furcht vor den Bacillen und andern Kreaturen
Gottes! F. B.

Die New Vork Evening Post schreibt: „Wenn man einen Augenblick
von allen Fragen des guten Geschmacks und der Moralität absieht, muß man
eingestehen, daß nichts mehr geeignet ist, die Tätigkeit des Gehirns des
Volks einzuschläfern, als das gierige Verschlingen der sensationellen ver—
schiedenen Neuigkeiten, Skandalgeschichten, Klatschereien und Illustrationen,
aus denen das heutige moderne Sonntagsblatt besteht. Das Verschlingen
einer solchen Masse macht den Menschen einer übersättigten Riesenschlange