Show SCIENCE WELDED I I WITH I Sir Oliver Lodge Issues Text Tex t of Scientific Cate Cate- I chism BELIEF IN FUTURE LIFE LIF E of Liberal Scientists in inland ling Eng 1 land Is Shown bj- bj Articles of or Faith London D Doc Dec c 22 Sit 2 Sir Oliver Lodge e has Issued the text of oC a scientific c catechism which was rend read before a n gathering of nonconformist ministers minister In London and which Is designed d Corth for Cor or orthe th the u use of teachers te Interested Interest In th the e education of oC the young younS' In a preface preface preface pre pre- face Sir ir Oliver says From the viewpoint of or the teacher r and the trainer of teachers the follow ollow- following log InS clauses have ha been drafted h by m mas me meas meas e as affording a partially scientific basis s for future religious education Q What What are you Jou A A.-A A A being alive and conscious upon this earth carth m my ancestors having ascended by gradual ual processes from the lower lowe r forms Corms of animal life und and with a n struggle struggle gle and antl suffering become beom man Q What Q What then is meant by hy th the e fall aB of man A A. A At A.-At At At a certain stage stag e of development de man became con conscious es s of the difference nel between right an and d wrong so 50 that thereafter when hl his actions fell below a normal standard I of oC conduct he felt Celt ashamed and sinful Nevertheless everth less the possibility of the fall fat marks a rise In th the scale of or existence Creatures below this level le are arc Irresponsible feel no shame suffer no re remorse remorse remorse re- re morse and are said to have ha no conscience con con- science nce Character of Manhood Q What hat What is the distinctive character character char char- acter of manhood That A A. A That he ha has hns s responsibility for his acts having acquired the power of or choosing between between between be be- tween good and evil with freedom to obey one motive rather than another another an an- other Q What hat What Is the dut duty of man ATo A A. To To a assist his fellows to develop his own higher self strike tow toward aid good I In n every way and o open on his powers generally generally gen gen- to seek to know the laws Jaws of or na nature nature nature na- na ture and obey the will o of God In whoso whose service alone can be bo found that harmonious exercise of oC th the faculties s which is synon synonymous with perfect t freedom Q What What Is meant b by good and I evil JI A. A Good A.-Good Good Is that which promotes promotes promotes pro pro- motes development ment and Is In n harmony with the will of God It Is akin to health beauty and happiness Evil Is that which retards or frustrates development development development de de- and injures injure some part pan of the universe It Is akin to disease e ugliness and miser misery no ln Good From Prom Evil lJ Q How Hon How does man know good from rom evil His A-His A Ills own nature when uncorrupted uncorrupted uncorrupted un- un corrupted Is sufficiently In hl tune tunc with the universe to enable him to be well aware In general of or what is Js pleasing and displeasing a guiding spirit of which he himself should be tho the real effective portion Q How Q-How How cones coines It evil exists A.- A. A. A Acts Act and thoughts tire are evil when below below bolow be- be low the norm normal l standard attained b by I humanity The possibility of or evil ia I Ia Is Isa a necessary consequence c just as a an ar n organism whose moral temperature I Is ns far above the absolute zero is necessarily liable Hable to damage b by deadly cold but cold I Is not it Itself a positive e or created thing Q What Q-What What Is sin 7 A. A Sin A.-Sin Sin I 1 a a. deliberate de deliberate liberate liberate- wilful a at of or a a. free agent alent who sees spes better and nd chooses worse and thereby acts injuriously Injuriously- to himself him self elf and others The root of or sin I 1 Is s selfishness whereby needless trouble e and pain Is IR Inflicted on others It I 1 Is s akin to moral t Q Are Are rt there beings lower lower In th tho o scale of existence than mam mans A. A Mul MuI Mul In P cr every part of oC the earth where life Is possible w we mind find It de de- Life Lifo exists In every pry variety varlet of animal of earth air and ond sea spa anc ancin andIn and andin i in per every species s of plant Bring Beings n ln s III Higher h r Titan Than Man Inn nn Q Are Q-Are Are there thero beings higher In th the e scale of exl existence tenc than man A. A Ma A.-Ma Man ManIs n Is If s the highest o of the dwellers d on th the e planet earth but the earth Is only on one e of If man many planets warmed b by the stilt slin sun I and anti the sun only one ono of a myriad n of f similar suns uns which arc are so o distant w we a hardly see pe theta them m and group roup them Indiscriminately In- In inas In in- as stars We Ye may b be beure e sure ure that In n some of the these e innumerable Innumerable able ablo worlds circulating shout about distant lI tont suns there must be he beings far higher highe r In the scale of existence than our ourselves Elve Ind Indeed w tv wo o have no knowledge which enables us to assert rl tho limn ah absence l nce n of f Intelligence anywhere Q Q hat What cau caused ed and antI what chat maintains main tales t existence A. A Of A.-Of Of our ally ow own p knowledge kno we we- are unable to e the mho meaning origination and main main- All wo we w can accomplish In th the e physical v world orld orld Is to move things about abou t b by means of our bodily organisms and am 1 leave Jave them thim to act on each other bu hilt but t we conceive there thero must mut be some Rome In Intelligence Intelligence In- In supreme over ever the tho whole process of oC evolution el else e things could not he lip as organized organised l and beautiful as th they a are fl Grace of nt Go l. l Q Is Is man helped In n his struggle le upward A. Man A. A Man has not brought ht himself lain Into existence nor can h he unaided maintain existence or achieve anything whatever There Is certainly a pow power r In ht tho the universe vastl vastly beyond our comprehension We Yc trust and bo- bo It to be a good loving lo power power able and willing to help us and all creatures and guide us wisely without detriment to our incipient freedom This loving kindness surrounds us every moment In It we live 11 and have our real being It Is lR the mainspring of love and joy and beauty We call caB It the tho grace race of God anti and it Is It that sustains and enriches all nil the worlds It mn may take lake a a. multiplicity of ot forms Corms but Its es essence ene and higher meaning arc specially re revealed revealed revealed re- re to dwellers on this earth In Inthe the tho form of oC the divinely human perfect per per- perfect life of Jesus Christ through whose spirit and living influence man may hope to rl rise e to heights at present nt In In- In accessible Q How Q How may we become Informed lof of things too high for our own knowl edge A A. We We should strive to learn from Crom the great teachers prophets poets and saints of or the human race whose writings are arc opened to U us by education Especially should we learn how to Interpret and understand the Bible which the nation holds in such Rueh hl h honor |