PROFESSOR’S CONFESSION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 8 October 1926, Page 2

PROFESSOR’S CONFESSION.

“ GREAVEST THING IN THE V/ORLD.” REMARKABLE SCENE AT A CHURCH CONGRESS. Australian and N.D. Cable Association. by Cable —Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, October 6.

AVhat is described as the most remarkable scene ever known in a Church Congress, occurred at Southport- (following on tho reaiding of & paper Witten just before Inis death on. August 28, by Professor X. G. Adams, ViceChancellor of the* University of_ Liverpool). Tlio Professor concluded: “1 want to make it, clear that a scientist may arrive at a clear knowledge oi religious truth by the very methods employed at his own work. More and more as years have passed, I have be, .come convinced that love ■ of- God* is everything, and if man possesses this, aft other things are secondary. This lifOi is not the end. The soul is inrt mor,tai.” After tho reading the. Archbishop- of York, with upraised hand said: “These words, from a dying man, are too.'impprtant i'pr us to pass quickly to lesser 'things.” The Anchbishop asked for silent meditation., whereupon, everyone in tlio crowded hall uproso and stood silently while the. clock measured off three .'minutes.