MANNER OF CREATION

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3717, 2 November 1926, Page 7

MANNER OF CREATION

DEAN INGE AND ULTIMATE TRUTH Doan luge, giving the second annual Fison lecture at Guys HospitalMedioal School, took ‘ Science and L lituiato Truth’ as’his subject, In his conclusions Dean luge said “Of the motives of the Creation and the manner of the Creation wo know nothing whatever Wc cannot pywirate the mind oi the Absolute*, and think wo must frankly confess tlnit, while the return journey to lam, •' path of salvation, is known to ns, 1 ludownward journey, the path ol ( realion, is unknown to ns. “This has even boon made a reproach against the school of philosophy to which 1 belong. We Ice we are told to account for the word. Well, the world is a solid fact which we have to accept, not to account lor. “ I do not know the reason why wo should be admitted behind the scones while onr business is on the stage. 11 I have to picture to mysell how the world inav be related to its Creator, i should say that, though the enormous nature of the Supreme Being is unknown to ns, He has revealed H unsol I under the three attributes ol goodness, truth, and beauty. “There eternal and intimate values are not in active thoughts. They necessarily produce an eternal world—a. sphere of spaceless and timeless existence in which wo live. litis is the heaven of the Christian. “ There arc some, 1 know, who picture to themselves religion as retreating irom one position to another helot e the victorious advance ol science, and as now preparing to die in its last ditch. That is not at all my opinion. Organised religion is certainly not retreating. But why? 1 do not Hunk that scientific discoveries have so mneh to do with it tts is often supposed. “ I should rather say that religion hits in the past tried to coerce the irreligious by garish promises and terntyiii' r threats—both promises and threats offered in grossly materialistic lan,ru.,„c. When these promises and Threats lost their cogency religion .secularised itself still further, and announced that its object was to promote a comfortable organisation ol society. Those irreligious appeals have laded, so the irreligious no longer care lor the menaces or promises of I lie church, and’ they have no respect for the priest m politics. “ Hut the religions appeal is in no wav weakened. Now, as always, the suit! of man lives by admiration, Hope, and love; aml_ that these are I used m homage to the 1 nseen hn Kvc,- p,ent lieingT ihe ‘Value of Values,’ as a