The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-11
ccience and Faith Was the Subject
Of Excellent Lecture by Father
eieIinser at St. Mary's
Last Evening.
THE QUESTION BOX
BOX
proves to be Quite an Interesting and
Attractive Feature Of These
Popular Lectures Every
Wednesday.

A large crowd assembled at ST
Mary's church last night 70 l.sten t,
Rev. Dr.. Giglinger's lecture OF
sscience and Faith" He said tina
ours is an age of the most wonderful
material progress that has ever beer
recorded in the history Of mankind
Nature has at last been compelled by
the most clever and persistent work
Of such eminent secret detectives as
Edison. to let go in favor o. man OF
many of her most important secrets
The way to those secrets having been
discovered, the inventors of the past
are but the forerunners of even great.
er discoveries predicted for the future.
We hail with greatest delight any new
discoveries and are rather surprised.
considering the power of mankind
over water, and the uniformity of the
laws of nature, that some of the great
est inventions of our day were not
centuries ago. Science cannot create
particle of dust but like the govern
ment Of the United States which is not
creative but directive. directs the
wealth of natural forces.
Science says Professor Huxley.
u.s. believe, nothing but trained and
organized common sense-The man of
science. IN fact. simply uses with
scrupulous exactness the methods
which we all, habitually and at every
moment use carelessly."
The word science" aside from
mathematics. is now frequently used
to denote chiefly physical, experiment
tai science, and as such it deals with
the universe as known 70 us by the
senses. The Rev. speaker then refer.
red to the habit of specializing on ac-
count of the impossibility of mastering
every branch of knowledge within the
few years Of active life allotted TO each
/ man, He then devoted some time to |
+ evolution which. he says, claims to
give true explanation of the uni. |
verse. Though believing in evolution
to certain limited extent he said he
could not accept evolution as taught |
BY the evolutionists because they I
have never proved their statements. I
have not found the missing link. have
still seven riddles to solve which il
Herr DR.. Bois-2eynold, secretary of |
the Berlin Academy of science, and {
himself an eyolutionist. says they
3can not solve, and finally because /
evolution is a mere theory. One of the
main supports of evolution was the
theory of spontaneous generation but /
the famous scientist. Louis Pasteur,
proved conclusively by his expert |
ments that life cannot come from life I
Tess matter and that spontaneous gen
Grafton is all impossibility.
one OF the greatest scientists. evo-
ntlonists and atheists of our day is
Professor Haeckel OF Germany who
mas many admirers in Europe and in
snc United States. The famous biolo-
slsl Professor Brass, recently COM
peled Haeckel to admit that he had +
iaslhed embryo-pictures to verify his
nspolheses on the geneology OF man.
.lM Haeckel ackn wedges these
ialsincations in an end to this I'M
edsofy quarrel and make the 'contrite' /
confession that small portion of my
3emprSo'pictures (about six or eight
per cent, has been falsified in DR..
nrass sense of the word--in all those. !
namely IN which the absence of ma
'e''al for observation make it neces-