SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1927, Page 4

SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

Evolution gives far more than it takes away. It shows the universe as

a training ground, a school, for "the. education of spiritual beings. And tin’s implies the existence of an intelligence far greater than our own, though somehow related to ours—for we find that Nature’s processes are orderly and rational and understandable, indicating that the Power behind is akin to our human minds. AVc cannot fully understand that greater intelligence, hut we are continually learning more about the way in which it works. As the Bible is the revelation of God’s mind through the teaching of inspired men. so is science a revelation of His .Mind as expressed in the hook of Nature, which also is His word. Ami we now know enough to able to believe that fundamentally, beneath, all our troubles and sorrows, universe is friendly. AA’e are thus brought hack, by another route, to believe in a God AY ho is Love ; to a Faith based on Reason, thanks to that science which some may have feared or distrusted. Science thus confirms the vision ol saint and seer; confirms the message of the Biblo and particularly of the New Testament. But the materialistic theologies of the Middle Ages are obsolete. Our theology must have a wider sweep.—J. Arthur Hill, in “The National Review.”