The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-08
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Sir Oliver Lodge Defends The Idea Of
A Future State---Germany VIII
Will Not Exhibit At The San
Francisco Fair---The Pope
Bans CIerics

LONDON, March 24.-sir olive
Lodges striking address on Christ.
ian Revelation From the Scienti6,
Point OF View" was the outstand
ing feature of the Evangelical Free
Churches Conference, which ended
its labors on Thursday in Ports
mouth.
God he said can be depicted
as powerful and loving Friend
with whom Spirits may commune ev
cry hour Of the day. One whose pa
thence, long suffering and beneficence
are never exhausted.
Let us not be afraid of an idea
because it has several times striven
TO make itself appreciated. There
must be many failures to effect en-
trance before final success. So it is
with the Messiah idea, which is
abroad in the land, and was for
many years before Christ's coming.
but had not been recognized by more
than a few.
The imDossibility of squaring the
circle is not really negative prop
osition, except in form. This is al
ways true for the positive form of
any comprehensive denial It's pro-
mulgator is probably stepping out of
bounds into the cheap and easy re-
gion Of negative speculation. He is
like the rationalistic microbe, deny
ing the existence of the human be-
ing"
The speaker went on to compare
man in the universe to the white cor
puscles in mans blood.
Biologists" he said, ARE apt to
ehlnk Of life as a psycho-chemical
process, and hope to initiate the low
ly stages Of animal organisms by
the treatment Of inorganic materials;
but that does not exhaust the sub
ject, and reduce life, mind and will
to atomic mechanism and dynamics.
after many years of investigation
l have been gradually convinced that
the persistence of individual exist
ence is a fact, and that an occas-
ional and difficult communication
across the chasm is possible.
Wealth of Spiritual Control
THE door, therefore, seems open
to a wealth of spiritual control. The
subject has attracted quacks and
charlatans: but we should keep an
open mind regarding It, The pos
sibility Of what we call miracles has
been hastily and illegitimately de-
MED; they are not necessarily more
impossible or lawless than the inter
ference ,of a human being would
seem to a colony Of ants. They
should. be judged by historical evil
1ence and literary criticism.
"Often in the history of science re-
atty has proved simpler than our at
tempted conception of 1t. No matter
how complex and transcendently
vast reality must be, the Christian
of God is humanity sim
Die.
1.-THE sun is a glorious object, full
If mystery and unknown forces, but
is a friendly, homely thing.
The sunshine is not the sun, but It is I
he human and terrestrial aspect Of I
he sun.
Thus would represent the
Christian conception of God Christ {
s the sunshine, that fraction of the (
cosmic deity, which
uffers for the earth. Jesus was
,ldnly a terrestrial heritage. HIS I
.dyent was the glory. His reception
he shame of the human race"
In expounding his theories as 10 {
he connection Of spirit with matter,
Sir oliver Lodge declared that in I
was a fact
I'VE are not matter, yet we utilize
t. Through the mechanism Of the
rain we are able to influence the
Material world. We are in It, but /
lot Of It. The body is our machine,
ur instrument, and through It we
an achieve results in the material
pheTe.
why seek to deny either the sDir-
tual or the material query? Both are :
cal, both are true. In some high 9
r mind. perhaps. they may be uu- '
fed; meanwhile, we lack this high {
r mind.
Scientific progress Is made by ac' I
epting realities and by learning q
rom them. The rest is speculation.
is not likely that we are the only {