JOSEPH M'CABE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 7, 9 July 1923, Page 3

JOSEPH M'CABE

AN EMINENT LECTURER.

There was a large attendance at the Empress Theatre last evening, when Mr. Joseph M'Cabe delivered his first lecture. Sir Robert Stout, who presided, said, in introduicng the visitor, that tile audience would hear an eminent lecturer upon a great subject, "The Relation of Religion to Science." In opening, Mr. M'Cabe referred to the stupendous changes that were taking Place in Europe. Of the eight and a half million people in London, seven and a half million never went to church, and belonged to no church, and similar figures also applied to Paris and Berlin, where, out of fourteen" million people, twelve million stood definitely outside the church. "England is no lontrcr i> Christian country," declared Mr M Gabe, "and London is definitely a pagan city. In Europe to-day there are one hundred million people who never darken the-door of.a church." Tho rea-.Kow-'for-tWs-,"the"sectur«-declared, was because the churches were in definite, antagonism to modern science. Not one intellectual man -in fifty would subscribe to the tenets, of the Christian religion, And not one in ten believed in a personal God. Science was acknowledged at last, and-all real knowlprlcr e wa s scientific:_ The world was seething- with humamtananism, but it would not reach its ldpals by a return to tottering creeds To-mtrhl. Mr. M'Calw will eive his illustrated lecture on "The Evolution of Man." the wonderful story of life. On Tuesday, by means of illustrations on the screen, he will give an account of recent sensational exposures of spiritualist mediums in England, and the extraordinary.attitude of Sir A. Conan Pnyle TWh lectures will be given in {he Town Hall Concert Chamber, commencing at 8 p.m.