Religion and Science.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4918, 14 October 1884, Page 3

Religion and Science.

His Grace Archlisbop Moran recently Tisited the Jesuit College, Eirerview, Sydney. AH *he influential Catholics were present by invitation. The Archbishop received a hearty welcome at the * hands of the professors ajid,students, the brass bsnd. and orchestra attached to the College having been brought into requisi tion. In the course of bis address His Grace said :-rHe would wish to congratulate the students upon having within those walls the Jesuit Fathers to guide them m the paths of science and religion. The Jesuit Fathers were accustomed to be well abused. (Hear, bear.) No one would question this. (Laughter and ap plause.) It was "the s«me with that great man whose name was well known to all of them, and who by the splendour of his eloquence, by his devotioD, and by his moral power, achieved more triarophsinthe cause of religion find social freedom than any other man who had fought for the rights of his oppressed country. (Cheers.) Daniel O'Connell used to say that he was the best abused man iv the empire, and it might with equal truth be said that the Jesuit Fathers were the best abused people in Christendom. (Applause and laughter.) There was no enemy of social order, no man who by his life or principles brought discredit on his religion or country, but _sras sure to be an enemy of the Jesuits. And for this reason such men gonerally said the Jesuits were the erie.mies of science, whereas they were the enemies only of false science. He defined as false science that composite which springs from ignorance, impudence, and self-conceit-(Applause) He thought it was a great honor for the Jesuits to bo abused, and well abused, by the votaries of all false science; but-they were the lovers and promoters of true science. (Applause.) They held in their hands the traditions and history of the past, yet reaped the richest harvest of the present time. In every branch of true science the Fatlisrs of the Society of Je^us had won laurels, and in the present centuiy among those who devoted themselves to tbostudyof astronomy, no names were held in higher reverence thaD those of three members of the Order, Davico, Sestini, end Seccbif. (Cheers) To these illustrious men he pereonelly owed a debt of gratitude for the instruction imparted to him by them many years ago (applause). rI he students ought to rejoice in having the Jesuit Fathers to guide them in the paths of science and of religion. He would ask them to drink deep of the waters of science, and not to be satisfied with any superficial draught. The moralist of old warned them to "Drink deep the draught or taste not the Pierian spring." A little science was a dangerous thing, and led to infidelity and error. True science was the handmaid of religion. True science enobled the mind and sanctified the heart; true science came from God, who was the immutable source of all truth and knowledge. (Applause.)