THE CREED OF A SCIENTIST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3755, 23 February 1907, Page 4

THE CREED OF A SCIENTIST.

During the month of December last, Sir Oliver Lodge, the eminent physicist and mathematician, gave an interesting lecture before a distinguished audience in the Memorial Hall, London. The subject of the lecture was, “The First Principles of Faith,’’ which he intends shortly to expound and publish in book form. In this lecture he arranged the main head in the form of a catechism with question and answer. The answers, he stated, he had explained ! to his own children. The first question, lor instance, was ; “ Who are you?’’ The answer is : “I am a being, alive and conscious on this earth ; my ancestors having ascended by a gradual process from lower forms of animal life, and, with struggle and suffering, become men.’’ Other questions are: “What is meant by the Fall?” “ What is sin ?” “Is man helped in his struggle upwards?” etc. One answer is particularly interesting ; “ I believe in one infinite and eternal King, a guiding and living Father in whom all things consist. I believe that the Divine Nature was specially revealed to a man through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lived and taught and suffered in Palestine 1900 years ago ; has since been worshipped by the Christian Church as the immortal Son of God, the Saviour of the world. I believe that the Holy Spirit is ever ready to help us along the way towards goodness and truth, that prayer is a means of communion between man and God, and that it is our privilege, by faithful service, to enter into the life eternal, the Communion of Saints, and the Peace of God,”