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SCOTTISH LETTER. OUR GREAT NATIONAL MEMORIAL. PRINCESS MARY AND THE SHRINE

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDEST.)

EDINBCROR, September id. The scheme for the creation of the Scottish National War Memorial on Edinburgh Castle rock (which Princess Mary visited last week) is slowly but steadily taking shape under the direction of the Duke of Atholl's committee and the architect, Sir Robert

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SCIENCE AND GENESIS. SIR O LODGE ON MAN'S DESTINY.

In connection with the visit of the British Association to Southampton, Sir Oliver Lodge, addressed an audience

Congregational Church. His text was: which Alled every seat in the Above Bar

of Thy hands, the moon and the stars, "When I consider the heavens, the work

which Thou hast ordained, what is man that Thou art mindful of him?"

It was at one time thought, he said,

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qaly question was whether we were in any respect mistaken. We might be mistaken in detail, but on the whole the general concensus of opinion travelled іл one way. Dealing with his subject,

| A. R.A. It will be recalled that the that the truths of religion were alisu design approved consists of the conver}

from the truths of science. That was sion of the old barrack building known

now known to be absolutely impossible. "Billings Building into a gallery f honour and the erection a shrine abut. ting against the north side of this old building. Considerable progress has been made with the reconstruction of the interior as the gallery of honour, and the proportions of the old building are lend ing themselves to the purpose better than ws, anticipated. It is hoped before the winter to have the western half roofed in,

Atorus and, Worlds,, Sir Oliver said he believed it to be literally the enso that our notion of the universe, cu- larged, as it had been, by scientific study,

fell beneath reality to an almost infinite degres That reality, if we could perceive it, would be so overwhel- ming that we were mercifully screened from it in the tims of this mortal life. We appreciated things through

possessed. But we possessed a nascent Sefides, the scars which the animals

power which was not theirs, the human mind, an instrument that screened us from a great deal of reality which, per- haps, had no material connection.

our

The great arch, nearly 30 feet high, that leads from this gallery into the shrine the work of a young Edinburgh sculptor, Mr. Pilkington Jackson-is with its sculpture and carving already com plete. The committee wisely thought that they could leave to the discretion of the architect of the Knights of the Thistle Chapel the selection of the artists and craftsmen with whom he wished to be associated in the carrying out of this,

All the great things were inferred, great national work. The happy result reality lay. That was how we got our were mental, ideal. That was where is that Sir Robert Lorimer is surrounded interpretation of the heureus To-day by a sympathetic and capable band men marvellous things were happening in the and women who served during the war-interior of the stars. Some saw thern and who are all working with enthusiasm to make the memorial worthy of the memory of the hundred thousand of their countrymen who gave their lives. The shrine is to contain a stained-glass windows, each measuring series of seven about 3 feet wide by 16 feet high. Mr Douglas Strachan, LL.D., H.R.SA., who has the work in band, has evolved an appropriate and deeply impressive scheme for the treatment of these win- dews Running round the shrine below the windows is to be a bronze frieze about 4 feet high, in very flat relief. In this frieze types of all who served are being represented-men and horses mules, dogs even the carrier pigeons are not forgotten. The designs and full-size drawings have been pre

AGE OF THE WORLD. pared by Mr. Morris Meredith Williams had lasted or how long it might sen "Had we any idea how long the earth and the actual modelling is being a tinue to last? At one time the age of ried out by Mrs. Meredith Williams, who

women,

the birth of matter still going on. "I a sort of continuous process of creation, believe," said Sit Oliver, that creation is a continuous process, like evolution, that is one and done with, but a thing a gradual constant energising, not a thing that is going on. ficent series of luminous bodies we detect In all these magni- the same laws as we are familiar with on the earth, the same chemistry, the give off waves exactly as they do here. same chemical atoms that vibrato and There is not one law for the Earth and another for Mars, Saturn, and Neptune; there is not one law for this solar system and another for another."

la responsible for a considerable propor. the solar system was going to be limited tion of the sculptured work in connection to fifty million years. Now they were with the memorial. These artists, work- talking of fifty thousand million. The ing together, have had the most enthus president of the British Association and instic encouragement, and assistance from he might have to be satisfied with ten Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt (till re- thousand millions, but he wanted more. cently in command at Rosyth) and (Laughter.) It was General Sir Walter. Braithwaite, of the evidence. There must have been millions. question of Scottish Command. Not only have these of millions of years. The only question. officers and many of their funiors paid was whether the earth was in existence repeated visits to Mr. and Mrs. Merediththen. The Book of Genesis is not the Williams' studios, and given the benefit book of science," said Sir Oliver. "It of their expert advice and criticism, but the Admiral and the General have res pectively selected fine types of men, who posed as models, as well as uniform, equipment, etc.

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The motor vessel Athelchief, built by the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineer- 14g Company, Dundee, for the British Molasses Company, London, his carried out trials on the Firth of Forth, attain ing a mean speed of 11. kaots. After Janch on board, Mr. Grant Barclay," of the Caledon Company, proposed the toast of The Owners," which was replied to by Mr. Kielberg, who said the Athelchief was the frat motor tanker which his com- pany had had built, and the largest tanker owned by them, She was, be added the first motor tanker built specially for the carriage of molasses. The propelling machinery, which is fitted aft, and was supplied by Mcasra. John G. Kincaid. & Co., Greenock, consists of two sets of internal combustion engines on the Burmeister and Wain-Harland and Wolff principle, each having cylinders. The dthelchief will be follow ed by several other new tankers of larger dimensions, these being necessary to cope with the British Molasses Company's trade. Immediately after the completion

is a wonderful book for presenting a poetic conception of the origin of things, a marvellous piece of inspiration. But it is not to be supposed that the actual details are among the things that are open to the human mind. We are ex- We believe it had no beginning; we feel ploring the universe as a going concern. it can have no end, but it is a going concern, and we are in it helping to shape the destiny of that part of which we belong. If man decides to exter minate his species by suicide, by inter- national wars, he can do it. I don' think the Powers above will stop it. They could, but it would not seem to be in e- cordance with the character of freedom. Man was meant to go right of his own volition; there is no coercion."

of the atom, Bir Oliver said these things Having briefly described the structure

that the material universe was not every- were overwhelming, bat we had to realise thing. There was the still higher uni- verse of mind, of love, character, of emotion, an ideal universe which did not appeal to the senses. To understand the laws of astronomy needed years of study, but to feel the force of human affection needed no study at all. It was an affair of the spirit. Some things. were hidden from the wise and prudent, and were revealed unto babes. Those

of the trials the sthelchief left, on were the big things in which the human voyage to Java

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spirit was at home. It was a formidable thought, the mystery of existence. This Summer has done very well by the

"Here we are," said Sir Oliver, and cricketer, the golfer, the tennis player. We take with us our character, for bet in some sense here we shall be for ever. and the bowler. Football, ever eager for ter for worse, what we have made of the resumption of play, has already got ourselves here. That is what we go away into its stride, and now the Rugby ea- thusiast is counting the days till the first with, that and nothing else, and with ball finde touch. The growth in popular that, we shall continue to all eternity. ity of this gritty game has been one of God help us."

the post-war fentures of the sport world, thousands of spectators now being found where before 1914 hundreds, and even tens, were the rule. Ladies evidently copied with advantage by not a few find in the game qualities of strength and League mon. With the start of a new manliness that win their admiration for expressed that more equality will be Benson the ever-recurring hope is being they turn out Saturday after Saturday attained among the Scottish clubs Rule and follow play with the intelligent in- ont perhaps four fifteens in Scotland and terest of the men at their side and the the remainder are mediocre or frankly enthusiasm, if repressed, of the boys feeble. Until there is general improve round the ropes.

The commercialism of Association foot body the game will remain, the more or ent in the standned of play of this big hall has, if anything, been accentuated less duli anair it is at many grounds since the war and this, with rowdyism, Two of our leading clubs to day. Heriot's has alienated the interest of many F.P. and Glasgow High School F.P., have healthy minded aportamen. In Rugby shown in striking manner that a big football these find the game being played advance can be made by dint of hard for sheer love of it, and played with work and intelligent endeavour. The whole-hearted enthusiasm that could be

(Continued at fast of next Colums, promotion achieved by these two clubs

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