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RELIGION AND SCIENCE: THE PRESENT

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BISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM STATES HIS "DOCTRINE,

SCIENCE NOT CONTRADICTORY TO CHRIST'S TEACHING.

Scientists and theologians have recently been continuing the old controversy as to the truth or error of the evolutionist theory. of the development of man from a less complex form of life. Many churchmen are quite prepared to accept what is called Darwinism, and maintain that while this necessitates a big reconstruction of traditional theology the foundations of Christianity are untouched," and the message and claims of the Founder of Christianity" in mo way inconsistent with the theories of modern science.

Foremost among the protagonists of this view is Dr. Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham whose support of the scientists and attacks upon many of the sacramental and other doctrines of Christianity' have aroused bitter resentment. The Bishop was recently reproved by the Primate for the manner, rather than the subject of his message. While preaching in St. Paul's, a fellow clerio interrupted the Bishop to protest against his doctrine.

.................

PEPPER THROWN BY"

JEWEL RAIDER.

CROWD CHASES MAN.

"AN ALDGATE ROBBERY.

"A raid in which a man is stated to have thrown pepper into the face of an Aldgate jeweller and dashed off with jewellery valued at note. than £1,000, recently enlivened the lunch hour of the East End.

The jeweller was Mr. H. K. Field, trading under the name of Mears P. Greenhaum and Sons, at High- street, Aldgate.

There was a lively chase by police along Aldgate and down Middlesex- street before a capture was made.

A ring value £150 was picked up by a woinas and taken back to the shop.

Beliaved Like An Expert. When Mr. Field returned from hospital there was still pepper on his hat and clothes. To an Evening. Stqudard representative he said:

week.

"I found afterwards that seven single stone rings and one with three stones were missing. It was the three stone ring which a girl outside picked up. I value, "the whole lot at something over £1,000." Mr. J. Joseph, of Tooley-street, said:

Separate Ways.

"Last week a man came into my shop and said he wanted to buy some rings. I showed some to him but he did not buy any. To-day about one o'clock he came back. He What Dr. Barnes holds is very well expressed in the following told me that he would like to see sermon preached in Westminster Abbey' with special reference to again the same rings he saw lasti the scholars of Westminster School.

"I brought them-out-and-he Dr. Barnes took as his text: to be free from error. But natur-examined them carefully by means “Walk an children of light."ally there are those who would of a jeweller's glass in such a way Ephesians . 8.

rescue from the havoc wrought by that I thought he was in the trade. Darwin and his followers me He pointed out what he said This morning the boys of West thing by which to justify preten-he considered were faults in some minster School come here for the sons to doctrinal infallibility.of the stones and I was more than Srst Sunday service since the vaca. They press new claims and theories.ever, convinced that he W35 tinn. Among them are many, new Some are toying with the idea of jeweller. ly come to the school, who, as the aupremundane fall-some calamity There was another man waiting years go by, will gradually enter of disobedience in the heavens, outside the shop, but he did not its traditions and become prior to man's appearance on the come in. All of a sudden the sup- proud of its association with this earth; a tragic event which brought posed customer throw the contents famous Abbey Church. I prophesy evil into the scheme of creation of a box of pepper into my face, that among them there are not a That such an idea, for which there picked up the rings and ran out.. few who will pass through periods is not a lot of evidence, can be when they distrust and dispute the seriously put forward, shows how religious message which this build amazingly unscientific in temper ing exists to proclaim.

some of our theologians continue What advice shall I give to boys to be. Othors who shrink from in such

era? Shall I say such flights of fancy are suggest Ching to the old faith"? I saying that, while man is phycologi- rather, Seek truth. Rejoice that cally a descendant of the apes, his you live in one of the greatest eras mind is due to a special Diviné act "I saw the pepper thrown and of scientific progress in the history of creation.

Such a

contention the men run away. Immediately of humanity. Welcome new dis- cannot be upheld. Mental capacity the proprietor, from whose eyes coveries with an open mind. He and power are directly associated tears were streaming, and who had Terence the great men who make with the development of certain re- pepper on his face, followed them, them. But remember that behind gions of the brain. New qualities shouting Stop thief." all the new knowledge the funda of being, howers, functions, animal mental issues of life will remain, types emerge in the process of veiled. You cannot ignore these evolutionary charge. How they issues and fully live. You must are produced we do not know, approach them with faith, faith built upon reason. And I doubt if in the end your faith will be different from that of many who

But what biological enquiry has have preached or are commemorat- definitely established is that much ed within these walls,"

"Seek that is evil in man's passions and truth: be honest and reverent in appetites is due to natural mind: be loyal to the high aspira instincts inherited from his animal tions that arise in you as part of ancestry. In fact, man is not a your heritage. Then there will being who has fallen from an ideal dwell in you the Spirit of Christ, state of perfect innocence: he is an animal slowly gaining spiritual understanding and with the gain To day I would apply such rising far above his distant anees general principles to the contro- tors. Further, it is quite impos veray raised anew by the address sive to harmonis this conclusion of the President of the British of scientific enquiry with the tradi- Association a few weeks ago. What tional theology of any branch of should be our attitude to the biolo- the Christian Church The Eng- gical doctrine of evolution Howlish Churchman is proud to know should we who value religion, and that his communion has enshrined especially the Christian tradition among its Articles of Belief a state- in our civilisation, nnproach the neat that no Church is infallible. various questions which it opens Even General Councile err: the Shall we cloud clear issues with a wisest theologians make mistakes. hase of words? Shall we suggeet If then opinions widely and event doubts when in reality, no doubts universally held turn out to be exist! Shall we falsify Christian wrong, let us declare the fact and history and use the falsification to we need not blush as we make our commend Darwinism as though it confession. were no novelty 1 Or shall we honestly welcome new knowledge and admit that some traditional dogma of Christian belief must be changed!

Doctrine of Evolution,

Inherited From His Animal Ancestry.

י.

"The two men separated. One ran in the direction of Whitechapel and the other in the opposite direc tion.

"There was great excitement, anxi civilians, including myself, ran a policeman, with a number of

after the man who had gone White- chapel way.

policeman made an arrest."

"He ran too fast for me.but a

It was stated at the shop that all

the missing jewellery had been re- covered excepting one ring.

and joined the chase were people Among those who gave the sam waiting in a bus queue.

Mr. Field was able to go home after treatment at St. Bartholo raw's Hospital.

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are far stronger than those of cir. cumstance. Yet as all these forces He Who shapes us. Now, if in the come ultimately from God,' it is personality thus made there something of eternal value, may we have an eteraal existence that not reasonably hold that it will

keeping? Certainly a time will God will, preserve what is worth

cone when this earth will no longer Christ's Teaching Unaffected. support life: and, if there be no Already Christians who are not

life beyond the grave, a philoso obsessed by traditional theology then conclude that in truth God pher from another planet would realise that the doctrine of evolu- had made all men for nought. T tim leaves Christ's teaching, un- the belief that God's creation has a affected. If there be (as I believe)

God behind Nature He can show purpose we are compelled to postu His creative actipity through the

Inte the immortality of the soul. process of emergent erylution just

Science Agrees With Christ's That He has used evil in His plan an definitely ux by special creation.

Teaching. A

So I would conclude that on the

I plead for the latter as both the most honourable and the wisest course. Let us take the Isete. To day there is, among competent men of science, unanimous agreement that man has been evolved from an ape-like stock. He arose, possibly is obricus, and it puzzles us to re-inhole the modern scientific vier a million years ago, from a tangle concile this fact with His goodness of the origin of man's body and ni apes which began to vary in and power. But there is no new mind agrees different directions. In man, more problem herein.

well with Christ's significantly than elsewhere among there was much evil in the world ciled with certain statements of St. Christ knew that teaching. But it cannot be recon- the Primates, variation occurred which God made-cil for which Paul, nor with a belief in the in- in the brain, and especially in therefore God must be ultimately fallibility either of the Bible or thore parts of the brain, known as rentres of association. Other apes the delusive explanation which tance of some of the main strands responsibile. Christ did not offer the Church, nor with the accep- developed in other ways. Chim

gorillas and ornnguans may have, thought that the Fall of traditional Catholic theology. thus arose and are man's first con- provided. There is so much good-Yet are these facts of any immor sus. Whatever be the machineryness in the world, such rich beauty, tance? Why do mea desire so often by which evolution in general, and that we cannot believe that there is to preserve old errors? Why are that of man in particular, has been evil in the Creator Himself. But religious people and their leaders feeted, the fact itself is no longer clude, are not our own. We nor- tist 1 Some, of course, hate the His ende, we are forced to con- frequently timid and obscuran- denied by any of those whose opinion in worthy of respect. Dar ally week happiness: it is not trouble of thought, and therefore natural to us to cora delights and welcome, easy submission to au- sprung from the apes has stood the live laboulious days. God seems thoritative statement. Others are test of more than half a century rather to be desirous of progress, afraid that if they begin to raise of critical examination: increasing alike in the individual and in the questions their faith will vanish knowledge and careful enquiry anupal, well-fed and luxurious, Othere like magic a little disguis rare. His ideal maa is not the and they will be left. mizerable. have but confirmed its truth,

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Darwin's triumph colo-body develops. In the new horn is more prevalent. Sceptical or NOVEMBER 19th, 2 destroyed the whole relevant infant it hardly exists in the thodoxy more

adult it has been shaped by enhands with ignorant fanaticism. theological scheme..

commonly joins Many of us rejoice, for we regard the assertion vironment. We are what we are And so true religion, the religion that any Church is infallible, as by virtue of our parents and sur

of the Spirit of Christ, is harmed. alike impudent and dangerous.roundings: and the classical re When so much of Catholic theslogy searches of Professor Karl Pear war is demoralising,

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