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(By Rev. S. C. Carpenter, D.D.)

It was hoped that the Royal TOST of us know something more effectively, in the region Academy exhibition of Art in In- nowadays of the enormous the conscience and will.A

For this reason Christians do not dustry was going to be really im dimensions of the universe as re-

The attach too much importance to the portant but it le disappointing. venled by the astronomers.

Most of the sombre: galleries of universe is not literally infinite, but verdict of an eminent man of Burlington House have been trans-so vast that, although light travels science, that the Grent Architect of formed into out-moded pseudo-at 136,000 miles a second, the near-the Universe is "a pure mathema Swedish compartments filled with eat stay is so far away that the ticlan." It may be so, but religion arty bric-a-brac of an expensive light of it takes more than four does not look to science to provide It with a case on which to stand. sort, most of it.smacking of Paris yours to reach us., taste of five or ten years ago.

In fact a light-year is the astro-That part of the world with which Here and there are коте good nomical unit, and we hear of stars the natural sciences are concerned designs. The glass section is well which are thousands and even is not the whole world; the natural sciences do not cover the whole arranged. The standard of erafts millions of light-years away.

manship is nearly always twice as This has had in reference to re-ground. high as that of the design. ligion two opposite results. What The conclusion is that, while wa Although it has other good points is happening is much the same as welcome the more friendly atmos- still it is suggested by one cynic that the what happened two or three genera-phere which many modern men of display would have been more ap-tions ago. The sciences which at science provide for us, we propriately named "The Royal that time seemed to have a special think that religion must stand Academy. Exhibition of Artineas in bearing on religion were geology mainly on its own legs. We do not Industry."

and biology. Lyell first (1838) and propose to tie ourselves to the

or to philoso then Darwin (1859 and 1871). re-scholastic method, vealed the fact that the earth was phical idealism, or to realism, or much older, and that the story of creative evolution, or emergent evo The death of Cardinal Bourne reduces the number of Cardinals in life was much longer and much lution, or any other philosophic the world to 52 and leaves England more of a slow, continuous develop method.

ment than had been supposed; without a Cardinal at all.

THE WORLD'S CÁRDINALS

BIBLE TRUE

IF NOT INFALLIBLE The doctrine of God which we put

Of the 52 lving Cardinals, DISCOVERIES WHICH, 26 are Italians. There are six

SEEMED TO BANISH GOD Frenchmen, four Americans, three There were seme who thought forward will be a religious and a Germans, two Spaniards, two Poles, that religion had been exploded. Biblical doctrine. It will not say one Belgian, one Irishman, one All these discoveries seemed to have that the Bible is infallible, but it Hungarian, one Canadian, one Cze-the effect of banishing God al-will say that the Bible picture of God is a true picture. Above all, The China

choslovak, one. Portuguese, one Aus- together. trian, and one Brazilian.

There were others whose faith it will say that the account of God. The doyen is Cardinal Andrieu was not merely unshaken, but ac-given by Christ in the four Gospels ia the true account. It will desire Hong Kong, Saturday, February 9, 1935 is no reason to doubt that in

what is now British India they who is 85. The youngest is the tually strengthened. They had will be able to elect a majority 146-year-old Cardinal Manole Gonza-never thought of God merely as a to live on friendly terms with all of the representatives, and as lesey Coujeira, a Portuguese. the same speaker said, the

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titude of the National Congress Party is...not important. There

Your Daily Smile!

In Germany they're getting sugar tled by some

large man sitting up in heaven. the sciences, but it will have Its Indian Status

They had never supposed that God own position to maintain.

Thus it will call special attention the religious was responsible for Nothing marks the amateur in scheme would be worked by

part of life, and the rest, was set to the opening words of Genesis... the majority of the people: The politics more clearly than pre-function of the Governor under

kind of scientific "In the beginning God," and "It will" occupation with vague words and

our system, when once respon- out of wood, and in Russia they have forces in which God had no hand. further show that this is picked up Bill The India generalities.

sible government has been grant succeeded in extracting gasoline from They had never rested their theo and amplified in the opening words which is now being simultane-

ed, is not to "work" the system; peat. United States scientists

ning was the Logos." These two ously discussed in London and that is the task of the Parlia- stil working on the problem of getting logy on the "gaps in science" and of St. John's Gospel, "In the begin- accordingly, when the gaps began passages summarise the Biblical New Delhi, is the biggest and

to close, they were not disconcerted teaching that God is the Origin and most intricate measure ever. In-ment or Assembly, and their in-the country out of hot water.

strument is the Ministry they How I Feel About It

As Charles Kingsley pointed out, the Principle of all things.

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are

one of the old conclusions reaffirm It will not, of course, suppose, as

troduced into the British Parlia- put into office. The function of Would I fight again for a foreign ment. It has been drafted after the Governor is merely to see country? Not me. Why, I'd even ed by the new scientific discoveries the author of Genesis supposed, Iseven years of continuous en that the Ministers do not break rather stay at home with the missus was that God must be found either that Creation was then finished. It

quiry and discussion, during the instrument and this is made

and family!

everywhere or nowhere.

will think of Creation as going on which from the time of the definite by means of orders

It la the same to-day. Some are all the time. But it will find in Simon Commission to the end of issued to him on his appointment At the Machine Tools Exhibition a staggered by the figures, or by the the Idea of God the eternal back- the Round Table Conferences by Letters Patent. The provi-gossip writer saw a metal rod going suggestions have been invited ions of the Constitution mere-into one end of a machine which suggestion that in a few million ground in all that comes to pass, heat will fail and in what comes to pass. It will both locally and by delegation, y confer certain powers which threw collar stud out at the other rears the sun's

and every ix Records. This, I was Others find their religious belief i find a continuous purpose. with the object of securing the may be used in emergency told," he adde, was slow. But very actually enlarged by the figures, When the sun threw off frag- utmost amount of devolution in without running the risk of im sure. No man's bedroom should be and are not disconcerted by

ments of itself, one of which be legislative and administrative peachment for a misuse of his without one,

rumours of a dying sun, because came earth, this blazing mass did authority that is consistent with position, as was done in the case

their notion of heaven never was a happen to contain the promise of orderly development; and with-of Governor Eyre when he was

MIROU

the elements, which would eventual out order there is no freedom. charged with having used ex-

Remember, mister, that the girl material notion.

ly be required to maintain earthly One might suppose that in would cessive severity in quashing a bably seems cattish to every other MODERN SCIENCE be in London that the generali rebellion.

life.. It did happen to take up its LESS MATERIÁLIST These instructions who seems kittenish to you pro- ties would abound, and that in have no doubt already been con-girl around.

In one way it is actually easier position in a part of, the universa New Delhi there would be sug-sidered by the delegates to the

fo-day to maintain belief in God where the atmosphere was suitable gested amendments based upon Round Table, and it is disap-

than it was when many of the lead- for life; it did in the end produce local knowledge or sectional dif-pointing to find prominent men

ing scientfic men were declared a race of living beings, who can ferences. The fact that the oc-who must know or can easily

materialists. The modern man of some extent control the course of casion produces just the opposite ascertain the facts taking ad-

science is not, as a rule, a material-jevolution. In this we see the hand result is merely a proof that in vantage of the ignorance of those China's Reservation On Delhi the legislatora have not who think that the Governor- vet discovered that it is the de- General acts on bis own im- tails of a law that are really impulses. It would be far more portant.

useful to begin the political

It is very difficult for instance education of the untaught mul- to attach any meaning to the de-titude by giving it accurate in- claration of Dr. Deshmukh that formation..

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ist, and is quite ready to listen to of God.

(Continued on Page 11),

any argument, provided that it is sensible, for taking a spiritual view of the universe..

!

How do the argument put for ward? There are some very able Christian philosophers who put for ward the sheer intellectual case, 48

do

MEASURES AGAINST 'PIRACY

British And Chinese Officials Meet

the Bill means the "enthrone- The real necessity for the pre-In a press interview yesterday, those most logical thinkers, the ment, with the help of the Prin- sent movement for self-govern- Mr. Fu Ping-chang, chairman of medieval Schoolmen, did. The ces, of an undiluted autocracy" ment is that India has reached the Foreign Affairs Committee existence of God, they say, in a de The object of the Bill is to abolish the stage when social and econo- of the Legislative Yuan, stated monstrable fact. But a great many

Information that one of the the present autocracy of the mic reform will be the business that the text of the International think that Immanuel Kant has Governor-General, which even of the Government for at least

chow outrage had been captured. now is by no means undiluted. a generation, and for this the Telegraphic Agreement is now weakened the validity of those old pirates concerned with the Tung- It will transfer the "dilution" existing Administration. has not under consideration. He said that logical arguments. from the Secretary of State to got the needful moral authority on the whole, the articles of the Kant was quite sure that it was was communicated to the Naval Agreement are quite fair and in necessary to believe in God, because representatives who attended the an Indian Legislative Assembly. It is too easy for the opponents fine with China's desire to de- such a bellef was, in his view, re-discussion with Chinese officials at Moreover whatever policy may to arouse prejudice by racial apveion her telegraphic service.quired by the facts of man's moral Cantor, on Thursday of ways be adopted by the Princes, it is peals.

new Constitution

However, Mr. Fu continued, an consciousness, but the old argu- combatting piracy along the China quite absurd to suggest that will give a splendid chance. for error had been made in the ments did not seem to him con- coast.

The local Naval representatives they are any less Indian than the men of sound judgment and Agreement in that it takes the vincing members of the Bombay Muni-moral courage to lead the deve Kuantung Leased Territory (in- On the whole the modern. world who went to Canton were Lieut. cipality and it is equally lopment, and it is a pity that so cluding Dairen and Port Arthur) seems to have followed Kant. In Cmdr. R. S. Barry, Anti-Piracy absurd to suggest that there can many speeches are being de-ass signatory unit, whereas this deed, it seems to me that the exist Officer, and Lieut. Cmdr. A. be a united India without them, livered that create an impression territors will be rendered to ance of God is not a thing that Best, 8.0, (F). or that they will not be entitled that such men are rare.

to their own opinion. At the

very start the position will be that their adoption of the new Constitution will be voluntary;

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