AMUSEMENTS

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 97, 26 April 1916, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

THE MIGHTY UNIVERSE.

ITS RELATION TO TKJ'I WAit

Mr Clement Wragge. addressed an interested audience at the Town Hall last evening on "The Mighty Uni : verso and its Relation to the War."

The lecture, with the exception of tli.it part of ib which related in the vv:u\ was on similar lines to that given by Air Wragye on his last visit to Blenheim. He first of all reiterated the fact that it was not possible for a .scientist to be an atheist, and spoke, helped by some wonderful hintern slides, of tlie birth of worlds, and the part played by radium in such labor. A Rood deal of the address was devoted to this part of the scientific entertainment, the latter halt being devoted to the moon. Some .splendid pictures were shown of the corona and hydrogen flames o\ tho sun, which he called the subdynamo of the Infinite Dynamo, which is called Cod—the <jngim: which, by means of wireless wave*, controls the earth. Touching on the war Mr Wragge stated that as God worked altogether for good in his in-, finite wisdom the present great strug.gle was a necessary evil which in the course of the Great Plan was a development for good, a. circumstance in the evolution of man which meant the corner stone of the Federation ot Europe, which in turn was a section of the Federation of the world. He likened the Allies to the White factor and the Germans to the Black. The Allies must win. There was no doubt about that; but it would be in God's good tiir-o, when.the nations ot tho world had fully learnt the lesson. In the course of this part of his lecture Mr Wragge made an impassioned recruiting appeal to young men. to join in the scotching of the "Scot;-: pion." ' ■ ■ . Mr WragECtt's address to-night is ent^ed. "Th^ Majesty, of Creation, ■ "including'the romance of tho-earth, how seasons -;haye changed in the course of vast ages/with explanations of the fact that tropical vegetation once existed round the North and South Polos as instanced by fossil remains. Mr Wragge wil! also deal with the rock carvings in- the Pacific Islands, the ancient history of New ■ Zeaiaiid, and the history, of the statues of Easter Island, to include with the solar system, new. series ot viows of the moon, rhe canals o;t . Mars, etc. The final exhibition^ 01 radium will take place after the lecture, with new specimens.