SCIENCE & RELIGION

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6442, 24 January 1924, Page 5

SCIENCE & RELIGION

WHOLE UNIVERSE SUBJECT TO ONE GUIDING POWER Man, according to Sir Oliver Lodge, at a service at Sefton Park Presbyterian Church, held in connection with the meetings as Liverpool of the British Association, is an unfinished article.

He said that among the immensities of the universe man might appear insignificant. Sometimes he seemed evil and ugly, but he was immature he was in the process of making, an unfinished thing was often ugly. Man was comparatively a recent comer to the planet and was far from perfect, but held in him the seeds of majesty. He was endowed with free will. He was like mechanism constrained to do right. He had the power to go wrong, and he could utilise that power to his own hurt. If he had no power of going wrong he would be merely perfect mechanism. He would not have a kinship with Divinity. Man was related on his bodily side to the animals, but on his mental and spiritual side he had some incipient kinship with Deity. He had infinite possibilities of development, and when the work was complete, through the slow process of the ages, they would see that the product was worth all the labor and sacrifice and pain which seemed to have been necessary to bring it about. “My own researches,” he continued, “have led me to a firm conviction of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. Every star is a sun, and like our sun each probably has planets revolving around it. It is infinitely improbable that, with all the world’s scattered about space, this little world is the only one with rational creatures upon it. 1 - There is one system of law and order running throughout the universe. The laws of physics and light hold in the most distant star, and there are the same chemical elements. This proves that the whole universe is subject to one Guiding Power.”