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From childhood most of us controversy, and to avoid dis- steamship companies have been Most of the large Japanese have been familiar with the turbing the conviction of pious looking into the possibility of theological doctrine of the Fall folk who have grown up in the using of Man, for apart entirely from old ways of thought or, to speak future docking purposes. If the Vancouver harbour for questions of religious belief the more accurately, in the habit of Jaars Bill is enforced, it is said story of Adam and Eve in the not thinking at all upon matters that the N. Y. K., T. K.K., O.S.K., Garden of Eden is part of the of the deepest concern.
and the Japanese shipping com- primitive folk-lore of the race..
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a beautiful legend by is the challenge the Churches Germany under the terms of the cargo-ships, were surrendered by spoiled insisting upor its acceptance have to face, and really I cannot Peace Treaty. 38 2 record of literal fact. help thinking that Canon Barnes That they have done so is a has set an example which the HONGKONG-SINGAPORE. matter of common knowledge. clergy of all denominations should
FREIGHTS. Even Christian theologians from make haste to follow.
Negotiations over the rate of St. Paul downwards have made Here and there, of course, there freights between Hongkong and the doctrine of the Fall of Man are old fashioned theologians, like Singapore are being carried on in the basis of their teaching. But "General" Bramwell Bosth. Who Kobe among domestic and foreign at last an eminent theologian and conscientiously reject the concln-steamship companies. a high dignitary of the Engliab sions of science and eling from the NVY.K.. and the O.S.K., the Church has had the courage conciction to the primitive forms BIS.X, C. Blue Funnel, publicly to disavow this cherished of faith; but in the main Darwin French Mail Steamship Co., the item of Christian dogma. and has triumphed, and even the Admiral-Line, and some others openly to declare his acceptance clergy see 117 the principles are participating in the negotia. of the whole teaching of science of evolution the
most likely tions. The conventional rates in relation to man's origin and explanation of man origin nead revision owing to change of development Cunon Barnes and progress. They believe conditions and invasion of the Cardiff sermon has been the topic not in man's fall from some field by new lines or by lines of the week.
state of pristine innocence, bat which were suspended during the Now let us see what all the in his steady ascent fam primi- war excitement about. Preaching tive saragery to his present high at Cardiff in connection with the stage of development, and to) visit to that city of the British potentialities of greatness get Association. Canon Barnes took undreamed of. Why, then, should history. be will tell us. is the Riso for his subject The Christian not these conclusions be honestly of Man through successive stages Revelation and Scientific Pro and courageously declared? of evolution to his gresent high gress." and proceeded to startle
Devour believers may rest as-estate; yet still there are no his congregation by a remarkably ured that such a rapprochement limits to his possible development. bold pronouncement upon bis between religion and science will Man is separated from the animal selected theme. At a gulp the in no way undermine the essen creation and from his primitive Canna swallowed the whole tials of the Christian faith. ancestors, arbores) or troglodyte. theory of evolution as preached Christianity bas faced greater and simply by differences of by Darwin and Huxley, in the shocks and triumphantly survived structure an I form, but above all. teath of the fireces: theological chem-being, indeed. all the by the quality of deity"}}- oppositioneren going out to stronger for its freer contact with fabling him to plan his destiny, meet the scientist by admitting the secular mind. The attitudepressing ever onward to the goal the "prohability of the evolution of the Church in these days of bis ligh calling. So the Canon of life from indoimate forms of should be one of open-eged re- would argue, discarding the dry jinätter.
search and inquiry into the deep husks of theolgy, while yet bold- That this view of man's deve est things of life, and of-a restlessing fast to the great essentials of lopment implies the rejection of eagerness in the pursuit of truth. tie Christian evangel. It is to the Biblical account of Creation I firmly believe, as have said the workings of the Christ Spirit and the Fall, Canon Barnes many times before, that a great in the worth, to the growth of frankly recognises. Here are his now. Revelation is in store for the Friendship and Charity and exact words: "Cbristian thinkershoman race, and it may well be Brotherhood, that we may look now quickly accept theories of that this will come only when for deliverance in these days of the origin of the earth and of Faith and Science go hand-in-bewilderment and doubt. man due to modern scientific hand to meet it. The clergy need research and speculation. They crave no higher privilege than to Church require? If only the What fiber gospel can say therefore for it necessary to herald the dawn.
battling seets would sink their abandon the doctrine of the Fall In this connection. I have been differences and break the bonds and arguments deduced from it greatly interested in the specula- of saperstition; ifonly they would by theologians from St. Paut tions of Professor Karl Pearson unite upon & common platform of downwards." In short, the Canon as to the origin of the human race. fellowship and service, we should argues that if, as the result of The question that axitatea, the have taken a big stride along the scientific inquiry, theological mind of the Professor goes back rugged pathwap that marks the beliets are shown to be untenable, beyond the legendary, Garden of Rise of Man. the must be frankly rejected Eden to the very earliest of man's and the truths of religion restated history. It is of the utmost im-be to that rise, who shall day? What, if any, limit there may in letme consonant with reasonportance, he declares, to know As I reflect and common sense.
the great whether primitive man was ar-civilisalions of the past-some
upon
It may be said that for a long boreal or troglodyte tree-dwel of them, for aught we know, time-past-the-Man-in-the-Streetter or a denizen of caves. If the little bebind that of our own day bas been of this opinion; but the former, then there is hope for the and recall that most of them significance of Canon Barnes' race: if the latter, then in spite declined and disappeared at the pronouncement is that it comes of all efforts towards the perfec-vary, zenith of their glory. I from a respected leader of the tion of human institutions man wonder whether it is part of the Christian Church, whose views will always be subject to sudden Scheme of Things that So Far and may be taken to reject a growing reversions to type, remmiscept of No farther is the rule of humse trend of opinion within the his brutal ancestry. orthodox fold. In fact, E believe.
destiny-each cycle, bowaver, Such is the dilemmapropounded being permitted to peer just a little that if we could take a by Professor Karl Pearson, and farther through the Gates of plebiscite of the clergy and no doubt many scientific minds Mystery, till, st some date yet ministers of the Eatablished and are busily engaged with the remote, all will be revealed. Free Churches, 80 per cent. of fascinating problem. I think I Thus to-day, I believe, we are on them would agree with the know the answer that will be the threshold of a mighty dis Canda in rejecting the Biblical given by Canou Barnes, himself covery-solving the secret of EccountofmeCreation and accept-Fa Doctor of Science and a Fallow Life and Death, appalling in its ing the scientific view of the of the Royal Society. The subli-majesty. origin of man. At the same mest truth of science and
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