RELIGION AND REASON

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1023, 14 July 1930, Page 14

RELIGION AND REASON

THINKING FOR ONESELF NO CONFLICTING FORCES Preaching in the Pitt Street Methodist Church last evening, the Rev. W. Walker based his sermon on Isaiah, 1: IS: “Come now and let* us reason together.” After explainng the Trial Scene which led to the utterance of these words, Mr. Walker said that he had far more confidence in the student accepting the Christian religion than he had of the person who would not think. Neither God nor the Church desired that people should stultify reason. In some respects religion might be above reason, but it was never in conflict with it. While it was true to say that faith was a mighty factor, yet it was never a blind faitn. It was faith which was based n • ■ reason. The same applied to almost every realm of life. Most of the important discoveries of science had been made by men who, through a process of reasoning had reached a certain position, then believing that there was something beyond, had ventured into the unknown and made new discoveries. In every realm of life faith was an experiment which resulted in experience. It was only by fulfilling the conditions that a person came to i know the reality and the unspeakable j joy of religion.