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DR. BARNES AND LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS.

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FUTURE OF RELIGION,

The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, preached a sermon in Westminster Abbey recently on "The Changing Setting of the Christian Faith." He took as his text:

The bricks are fallon, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedare. "We have gradually begun to get familiar with the idea that man has been upon this earth for about a million years," said Dr. Barnes. "For ninetenths of that time sub- kuman or primitive types of homo sapiens maintained a pre- carious exlatence, of which we had discovered remarkably fow records.

Age of the Earth. "Experts state that life probably made its appearance upon the earth some five hundred millions years ago; and the age of the carth It self, and the time It was, ejected from the sun in some cataclysmic upheaval, is at least twice that. vast stretch of time,

"As a result of recent inquiry! our sun has fallen into its neither significant, nor exceptional place in a great island Universe of soma thirty thousand million stars.

the day emphasised the splendid | Space-outside-this-immonsa simplicity of the Gospel setting. Universe of ours is not empty: it) Christ's experience of God us seems to swarm with other island the Father who could be reached universes which appear in our by prayer and inward search e- telescopes as spiral nebulae. Ac-mained a type of the highest re- cording to the American astrono-ligious experience of mankind. mer Hubble there are millions of On the other hand, God, as Christ millions of such nebulae in the revealed him, was not to be cajoled depths of space,

by any form of ritual magic. Hia "The astrophsicist believes that intense sympathy with nature, His our planetary system was produc-love of flowers, animals, and birds ed by the chance that some wander-gave a spiritual quality to our own ing star came near and tore great growing sense of oneness with tides out of our sun. The earth other forms of life. His indiffer- is thus a result of a somewhat rare ence to sacerdotal ritual was ob- accident. Of planetary systems selute, like that of the modern man there were possibly some hundreds of science. All the elaborations of thousands, and most of them and myalifications of primitive or must be older, some far older than degenerate religion were quite our own. Add to this that the foreign to His spirit. God showed stars of our Universe were built His power and wisdom in nature to pattern; they wore formed of and revealed His presence within the same materials as our sun and the soul; such was Christ's creed; were of much the same mass, the such was the creed of many out- conclusion followed almost inevit-side our Churches who were in-. ably that in our Universe there spired by Christ to-day. were many other planets bearing

It was often difficult-sometimes life, and on most of them life had! developed further, sometimes in-of a difficulty that dismayed-to credibly further, than on this reconcile the God without and the earth.

Men Liko Gods..

God within. In some realm other than the physical Universe the meaning and the end of its life history of any race of spiritual beings must be sought.

"It was at least possible that in our own island Universe-to say nothing of the millions of millions To-day we needed to refashion of similar Universes scattered both dogma and worship by join- through space-there were namer-ing the spiritual intuition of Jesus ous planets where beings existed to the understanding of the Uni- vastly superior in intellectual verse created by modern science. power and spiritual understanding

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"Cosmic radiation, whose source] Men and women. were every- Berlin, Mar. 21,An excep- appears to be the annihilation of where asking that religious teach- tionally beautiful stalnetite cave matter, was to-day a source offers should give a message which, has been discovered by the merest keen interest to every physicist. as it is often put, should be alike chance near the village of Syrau, Who knows but that, if we could "simple and up-to-date." For in- in Saxony. While loosening lime- analyse it by instruments of suit-stance, an instinct that any ac-stone in a quarry some workmen ably delicate precision, we might ceptable revision of the Prayer discovered a small deep hole. find in it waves/carrying messages Book should satisfy this demand They widened the opening and let across the depths of space from made the majority of our people a man down with a rope into the beings who had learned to pro-impatient with the proposals that hollow, which proved to be about duce energy by annihilating mutter emerged from private compromise. forty-five feet deep. When the and to whom our wireless is a "Our Church," concluded Dr. man appeared again and described commonplace of an almost forgot-Barnes, "will never win the educat- the wonders which his lantern had ten past.

ed world until it discards obsolete illuminated below the cave

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"The beginnings of civilisation, formule and conquers the conser-soon explored by the curious villa- of the use of the brain to conquer vative and obstinate superstition gers. The stalactica are said to he the blind forces of nature, only which exists within itself. If we of the most lovely colours, and a became definite some twenty or fail so to purify our own body, pure stream running into a lako thirty thousand years ago., Man's some other group of followers of about 50 yards broad has also been intellectual, and still more his Christ will take the place to which discovered., moral and spiritual faculties had we ought to aspire and will lead heen developing markedly for the van of religious 'progress in time which was but a fragment of the new age."

the period which had elapsed since

stock,

The Question of Ritual,

The native trouble in Natal fizzled out when the polica dap

he sprang from some ape-like At the festival dinner at the tain had a picturesque meeting Mansion House, in ald of the ap-with the leaders of the rival Zulu real for £60,000 from the Prince factions under the shade of a of Wales's General Hospital, it huge tree, and told them they' Explaining why he chose to was stated that the Lord Mayor must be good and not quarrel. speak of the revolutionary changes had allocated £100 given him. by Apparently impressed with the wisdom, the chiefs re- in outlook which were altering the the King of Afghanistan, Al-white background of religious thinking, together nearly £2,000 was raised. turned to their krunls to discuss

the matter among themselves. Dr. Barnes said he did it because broken.

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