DEVOTION AND SCIENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 20

DEVOTION AND SCIENCE

Dean luge, of St. Paul's, in a broadcast address on "Science and '.Religion," said that if the universe was running down like a clock, as some scientists contended, it must have been •wound up presumably by sonic intelligent Power "Who Mad probably made tho clock Himself, says the "Daily Mail." . , If it was true that at some inconceivably distant date all life on our planet would be extinct, wo had a long enough leaso to try every experiment. It was quite possible that tho future of mankind might bo far more brilliant than tho past. Our future, perhaps for a million years, was in our own hands. Tho Church Had learned its lesson from the advance of science, :md had lightened the ship by throwing over many antiquated traditions. The educated Christian had accepted Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Jeans, and Kddington, and he was prepared to accept Einstein if he could understand The only proof of religion was experimental. What began as an experiment, tho outcome of faith, ended as an experience. There was an extraordinary unanimity among the mystics that they had come into real communion with a Divine spirit Who hoard their prayers. "It is unscientific, declared Dean Inge, "to disregard such testimony. How could they sco Hun Who is invisible without the help of tho imagination?" . The natural language of devotion was poetry, not science.' A man who interrupted a violin solo by saying, "The man is only dragging the tailof a dead horso across the entrails of a dead cat" would bo a nuisance. So was the man who wanted to bring a test tube to a Catholic Eucharist. Tho main doctrines of Chvistianily were alt pictorial and symbolical. They were true in their con text', not when thfly wero taken out of: it. "This in what the vulgar rationalist nevor understands," he said. "For his .life :is an common and as free from mystery as ;i JBuitk Holiday, crowd."