RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 90, 18 April 1927, Page 8

RELIGION AND SCIENCE.

ADDRESS TO STUDENTS. non rkvkaled ix nature. A InrjHo number of the students attending tin- University tournament attended (In- mm vice at St. Matthew '- Anglican Church l a >t evening. The Rev. C. If. (iraiil Cowen urged the studentimt f(i look upon science a- tn the teachings of the Bible, hut rather as ihe handniaiileu <.f 00, l making dear much of ihc U,,ly Wiiu whi.-h before was misunderstood, lie drew the attention of those student* who were studying science to the fact that until eoiiiparati\ely a few year- ago the nge ot the earth had Keen interpreted from the Book of Cencr-is being aliont own years, whereas -cience had demonstrated that it was many millions of years oln. and' that Uod did not create it in hour*. Soienee. the preacher contended, was playinp a preat part in religion. That was instanced liy the wonders 01 wireless. He considered that the day would come when they would he able to see, a> well a- hear, friends speaking in T-ond'Mi and el-ewhere. "Suroly these thinps Miiiko Uod's M'velitioii of UiniM-lt in nature more wonderful than ever," said Mr. Grant Cowen. "I appeal to •vou students to see them in thjs light.* .

Touching upon Easter, the preacher reminded .the students that the risen Christ was poinj; before them and in spiring them to pive their best to the University life, even as He iiispiied other sections of the community. "That " said Mr. Grant Cowen, "is the spirit of hastcr."