THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929,
RELIGION & SCIENCE
Father Byrne's Address
THE FORTRESS STILL STANDING"
The Comment In Local Newspapers
Catholic liturgy are this doctrine.
Coherence and Stability
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If you care to linger about any age, und real destitution." Follow of the churches or to visit the the ladies who have willingly left Catholic schools, during enthetical) comfortable homes to beg for these instruction, you will meet with poor creatures, as they make their further proofs of coherence and quest from shop to shop in the city,, stability. You will discover that ask them why they do this. Yes, the Catholic Church has a double ask them, and then test the ideals set of truths to offer to her chil-of your own life by their answer. dren: truths to enlighten their Or go, If you will, to the French intellects and truths to guide their Orphanage at Causeway Bay, to the Reb. Father Byrne, S.J., delivered the final lecture in St. wills in the conduct of life. The Italian Convent at Wanchal or at Patrick's Hall last night, on religion and science, when he addressed first set deals with the dogmas of her Caine-road, or to the Industrial faith. Intelligent men, not belong School or to the Creche at West a good audience on "The Fortress Still Standing." At the outset, heing to the Church, who have taken Point There you will learn more referred to criticism of the lectures in the correspondence columns the trouble seriously to examine effectively than by listening to of local newspapers and said that he and other lecturers had refrained these dogmas, have been compelled human words why the Catholic to admit their coherence. They Church is a Fortress, and why she from replying, but they were prepared to answer questions any hang together perfectly, forming a is still atanding. If you decide to perfectly logical whole. This from make this visit, you might perhaps body chose to make.
scientific standpoint is surely a good pus yourself another question: "why
further it is found that every year, unlovely movement-such as Bol. all over the earth, large numbers of shevism, Radical Communism are one-time dissentients are won over bitterly. anti-Catholic?" If you are to this faith: in England, at present a student of History you will re- the annual number of converts a member that, when the nineteenth about twelve thousand, the arg century dawned, Pope Pius VI. had ment drawn from the coherence of been buried by his captors in. this belief must be strengthened.
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To-day-Harmston's Circus, Praya
To-day--Queen's Theatre; "The Woman Disputed"; also the Orloff Brothers with their Balalika and steel guitar.
To-day-World Theatre; "His Secretary."
To-day-Star Theatre; "It."
Theatre; To-day Majestic She, The Only One"
March 1-Dance at Engineers and Shipbuilders Institute.
Mar. 1--Harmaton's Circuş, even- ing performance in ald of the g.P.C.A.
Mar. 2-Peninsula Hotel, Kow- loon, Race week Carnival night in
In the course of these lectures every year shows a steady in. argument in their favour. When it is that all destructive forces, all the Rose Room, at 8.80 p.m.
on Religion and Science we have examined the methods adopted in the pursuit of scientific truth and of religious truth. We have seen that, as their objects are different, there must be difference in their methods of investigation. Even
common grave of a common grave
Mar. 2-Miss V. Capell's dancing display Star Theatre, 9.15 p.m.
March 3-Star Theatre; "The Samoan Dancers," 9.20 p.m.
Mar. 6-Garden Party at Club
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Hon. Dr. Tso, 5.30 p.m.
Mar. 8-S.P.C.A. Fancy Dress and
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Mar. 4At P.W.D. Offices, two
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Lammerts' Auctions
Mar. 1-At 85, Humphreys Bldgs., household furniture, 11 a.m.
March 1-At H. K. & K. Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon Go- down No. 18, Miscellaneous goods., 2 p.m.
crease in the number of Catholics all over the world.
These are very significant facts. When tested by the two scientific and of coherence principles stability, they cannot fail to im- press any thoughtful man. What a casual observer, however, will ever part of the world you may
The man who bas not the time or yard. Over his tomb there was no notice that both Science and Re-visit-East, West, North, South, ligion claim certain principles on you will find Catholics with the inclination to examine dogmas must, ceremony; over his tomb there was Masked Ball at Peninsula Hotel. which to build their structures. same faith and with a coherent at least be impressed by the no one to read a prayer. Deydier Church's moral code, It forms a wrote: "The one-time Pope is dead; In Science it is more common to faith.
whole system of ethics, which de he will be the last. We have closed Churches Everywhere call these principles Laws, thus
We need not linger in St. Peter's, fines the duties of man to himself a chapter in the history of super the Law of Gravitation, the Law of Attraction.
In Religion the though the world cannot offer us to his neighbour and to God-stitution." Those words were writ- word Dogma prevails-the Dogma any other temple comparable to Statesmen and sociologisks speak, at ten 130 years ago. You have read at the general the other day, that the "Roman of the Incarnation, the Dogma of it. We need not pause to consider times, with alarm the Trinity. Science can and does any of the other noted churches loosening of moral conduct and its Question" is selved. Another Pius on national life. reigns in the Fortress. It is still revise, or even scrap, her Laws to which our Roman guide would dissabrous, effects without loss of reputation; Reli- bring us; Rome is, after all, the The church has a very definite code standing: it is stronger than it was gion cannot scrap her Dogmas abode of the Pope, and the present about the subordination of pleasure before. without, herself, suffering by the Pope is the two hundred and to duty, arising from the ordered
The following Far Eastern ien loss. None the less Science, as sixty-second in the line of Roman harmony which she defines between
at the last were elected Fellows well as Religion, is concerned Bishops. If we pass from Italy to body and soul. The individual is about stability: "If we were ask-France or Germany or Spain, we not master of his own life in so far meeting of the Royal Empire Society ed." writes Sir Oliver Lodge, cannot fail to notice cathedrals 3 there is a moral obligation not to (formerly the Royal Colonial In- G. M. "what were the fundamental ideas such as Notre Dame or that of destroy it by suicide, nor to degrade stitute):-British Malaya: underlying modern science, 1 Cologne or of Madrid. In fact, we it by obscenity. He may
no more Alford (Singapore), D. Owen Jones think we should answer Uniformi-shall find in every important city indulge in immcral terature or (Teluk Anson), H. Edward Clayton Continuity, Evolution." of Europe, Catholic cathedrals immoral art than he may ia immoral (Taiping), Percy B. Tylee (Teluk Selence observes phenomena, she and many other Catholic churches actions. The Church's teaching has Anson), Lt. Col. F. J. F. Crook, marshals facts, she seeks for prin- besides. Cross the Atlantic to not changed in this point, nor has D.S.O. (Johore Bahru), Ralph E. ciples linking them together. In America. You will find Catholic her standard been dowered. Who Ince (Talping), Harry W. Wylie, the initial stages, she calls the cathedrals and churches in all the does not admire modesty and purity (Teluk Anson). China: F. G. C.
Mar. 9-First Extra Race meet- principles "hypotheses." When States. You will find them, too, of soul? Where do these virtues Walker, M.C., FI.C., Ph. C. (Sharging of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, they have stood the test of vary-in India, in Africa, in Alaska, nor and a robler and more consistent hal). Japan: John W. F. Cameron ing circumstances and have not will you be without them when sanction than in the moral code of (Korea). been weakened by the lapse of you travel, in China, from Hong the Church which, whilst elevating time she considers herself justi- Kong to Peking. These buildings matrimony to the dignity of a
different from the fied in calling them Laws: Her are very position is strengthened when an museums and the picture gal-sacrament, has a special place of increasing number of men, in dif-leries. They are for living souls, honour for the Virgin life? ferent parts of the earth and ap- not for silent relics. Day in, day proaching the question from (out men and women and children different angles, become united in visit them: early in the morning, assent, all the more so if many of them had differed for years. The method is reasonable. The very notion of truth demands coher ence and stability.
ty,
Groping, Science-
before the business world is astir; during the day and at close of evening
The Same Answer
Home and Marriage
It would be long to pursue this train of thought, ao let me put a simple question to you. Does not the word Home enshrine the sweet- est and most hallowed of memories?
Is not the ideal home at once the unit and the model of ideal society?
Ask the little child, whom you Hence, if Religion be true to what may meet entering the church at is basic in human society, It must To reach the position which 6 or 7 in the morning, why be coherent and unchanging in its she occupies to-day, Science had he is going there. He will tell to grope her way through oppos you that he is going to Mass. Put teaching about the home. Further, ing schools of votaries. In much the same question to the dock-its practice should act upon the she is still groping. This is no labourer or the washerwoman fol- whole home life, bringing into it stain on the banner of Science, lowing close behind, or to the peace and contentment and stability and noble inspirations. No one nor need we blame the schools gentleman-a doctor or lawyer-
who is conversant with Catholic which use the flickering light of who has just got out his motor a candle when no other source of car, they will give you the same doctrine can doubt that it does all illumination is available. None answer: "they are going to Mass." this. The home begins with the is mere painfully conscious of Ask them further, what this marriage ceremony. To all mankind the limitations of the human mind means; they will tell you that the marriage is a very special contract. than the men of brightest intel- Mass is the Sacrifice of the body To the Catholic Church it is more; it is a sacrament, which means that lect,
Their an- In fact so true is it that and blood of Christ. man is constantly recasting his swers are coherent and stable. It Heaven so blesses this holy bond of conclusion that, if we found him does not matter where you put the love, that it should never be broken in permanent possession of truth question, London, Paris, Berlin, upon earth. Mere advice without we want in- of a very high and exalted kind, Tokyo, Peking or Sydney. You example may weary; it would not be unreasonable to will always get the same answer spiration, and the Church proposes ask if, by his unaided efforts, he and you will find millions to give to us the Holy Family as the ideal. could have attained it.
it to you. More than that you will' Further she has her canonised find that the same answer was Saints-the Communion of Saints,
any one
If we can point to schools of Science with opposing views, given by similar groups two hun-We are all the better for a little The long line of varying schools of Religion are dred, three hundred, five hundred hero worship. still, perhaps, more numerous: a years ago; given, even, by those Saints, proposed by the Church for fact which, of itself, causes no who preferred to suffer death our admiration and imitation, offer more difficulty against the truth than to fail to give it You may the Catholic home this stimulus. of Religion than different trace the meaning and the force Old and young, married or single, theories about the nature of light of the words back to the supper-rich or poor, all will find companions cause about its reality. As in room In Jerusalem, where Christ amongst the saints, who have trod. Science, so in Religion different uttered the words: "This is My den the same road, and whose life- beliefs make it more difficult to body, this is My blood." Attempt story is an encouragement, to the find the truth, they do. not make after attempt has been made to less heroic follower. The canoniss- the quest of truth hopeless. If rid men's minds of the doctrines: tion of Saints is a very old Christian these be religious truth, it should the sword, appeal to science, ridi-tradition. The Catholic Church is eertainly stand the test which cule. Unbelievers have resorted coherent and unchanging in clalm- scientists apply to their princi- to all three. The Catholic Church ing still to find Salata in her house- ples; it should be coherent and answers back, coherently, un hold and in still proceeding.to stable. The Law of Gravitation changingly: "I believe what canonize them. In modern move: | | will not become capricious in | Augustine believed, what Bernardments which affect the home, she America nor inoperative in Bus-believed, what Thomas Aquinas preserves the just balance. No one sia. It will be the same at the believed, what Michelangelo be- can doubt the place of woman in a end of the century as it was at lieved: yes I, scientist; believe Church which so honours the the beginning. Now is there to what Pasteur, and innumerable Blessed Virgin and the long line of be found, on the globe, at present other great scientists, believed." women Saints. Nor can any form of Religion which is The unbelieving world rose to doubt her wisdom in believing that coherent and stable? In this age laugh at me but, in spite of it a home with two fathers would be of statistics it should be possible self, it was compelled to hear the very different from a home with a to answer the question.
Credo thundered from Eucharistic father and mother. In all this the Millions of Christians Congressses and to gaze in aston-Church is coherent and stable, *Using the figures by the ishment at the millions kneeling in An "Enormous Demand" .1929 edition of Whitaker's the reverence of their bellef, I
A final practical tat: it is the Almanack, we find the have selected this one example. test of Christ Himself: "By this world population to be rough, The doctrine is a striking one; it shall men know that you are My ly 1,800 millions. Of these over is a much-discussed doctrine, as 682 millions are Christians, and the recent Frayer-book contro-disciples, if you have love one for of the Christians over 331 mil-versy in the British Parliament another." Can the Catholic Church lions are Catholics in communion showed. It has been attacked stand it? One day a gentleman with the See of Rome. As the bitterly yet it is as firmly held visited a large Home for the Aged "Christians who are not in com-to-day in the Catholic Church as and for Orphans. It was one of the munion with Rome, ie., Protest it was in the middle ages or in many kept up by a Catholic ReH- ants and Orientals, agree with the earliest centuries of Chris glous Community He realised the Roman Catholic teaching in the tianity. It has the character of enormous demand made on human main general outline of ethical stability'; it has, too, the characcharity to devote ong's life to such teaching and with much of her tar of coherence. It is coherent a work On the point of leaving, he dogma, we may say that in a with the Gospel narrative: It, fa turned to the Sister in charge and fair portion of her doctrine she coherent with the doctrine of the said "Sister, I would not under represents the belief of one-third mystical union with Christ, so this work for one hundred thou of the human race. An examina- beautifully set forth in the fire dollars a year." "Nother tion of the ethics of the remain teenth chapter of St. John and in Bir was the prom ing two-thirds of the race would the epistles of St. Paul it not show that in many important coherent with the Catholic doc to test things her code is a fair repre-trine or the nature of the soul and of the sentation of the general ethical, the supernaturalelavaHome The of sense of mankind. Moreover
jesty and coherence of
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To-day-Ninth yearly meeting of Kowloon Residents' Association, in St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, 6 pan.
March 1-Hong Kong Tramways Ltd..
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Mar. 1-Meeting of Football As- Bociation Council, 5.80 p...
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To-day-Meeting of E.K.V.D.C. Sergeants' Mess Committee, 6 p.m. March 1-Prize diatribution and entertainment at the Diocesan Girls' School, Kowloon, 5.30 p.m.
March 4 Public lecture at Helena May Institute on "Chinese Symbolic Art," 6 p.m.
Mar. 4 Distribution of prizes by Mrs. W. T. Southern at the Italian Convent, 86 Caine-rd., 5 p.m.
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