A BISHOP’S FAITH
“It is my personal faith that the spirit of God will ultimately lead into all truth those creatures to whom he has given rational understanding. It is but a million years or so since the dawn of human rationality, when in some ape-like foi’m man began to be.
“Measure the human race by Its leaders, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and you can but allow that we have travelled far along the road of knowledge and understanding. Yet apparently the sun’s heat will permit animals like to ourselves to flourish upon the earth for another 100,000,000 years at least. Is it necessary to assume that in such a vast time the closed door at which we now seem to knock will not be open? “A progressive revealation of God’s nature and purpose, of a range and character of which we cannot at present form any conception, seems to me to be a reasfonable expectation. Such a revelation, moreover, will, I believe, result from that steady quest for truth, which is the supreme pur T pose of science. And finally, if our faith is sound, and of that I have njo doubt, the fullest revelation that may come will be found to be in harmony with the message of Christ.”— Dr Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham.
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Waipa Post, Volume 45, Issue 3250, 3 November 1932, Page 8
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