Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-01
LET TO EDITOR

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TO sAe Editor Of me Evcniva Capital
II wouid give me great pleasure b.
discuss al length with Or. Garner Ger.
tain statements which he has made IN
some very interesting letters recently
published III the Capital fbuf the lack
or space AFFORDED by the Capitals
forum fiji not sufficient for q thorough
and complete review of deep matter.
The best that can be done q 70 treat
or them iii general way and earnest
Ily pray that the last state Of the lay
man Who reads win not be worse than
the arets
Or. Garner states that religion Is
|imtolerant az scientific thought that
the priesthood Of the Middle Ages was
Ignorant, stepped III superstitious and
Suppressed scientific thought; that
few Of the ministers Of the gospel to-
DAY know anything about science. He
laIso makes the claim that the theories
advanced BIZ science gtxe pa y more.
satisfying explanation Of the works Of
the Creator than the old theology
Taking the arst point presented by
DR. Garner, Viii say II Is not always
easy I'd grasp the precise issue be-
tween science ard faith. but the fact ID
this: faith Ii the higher analogue Of
science and equally rational In It's
workings. The perception Of any type
Iog truth Is alphabetically rneditatesl,
II ii dependent on b corresponding fac
lalty or habit. therefore subject to in
evitable limitations This principle
applies boan TO faith and science.
Faith, however, requires more
searching preparation or soul and Il
deeper experience. Anyone, moral or
immoral. can gYasp the elementary
truths OF mathematics OF ph9stcs, but
ethical perceptions and appropriations.
require cleanness az life. nothing %.
Epre1udices moral and ethical Judgment
as an immoral life.
You cannot have science unless you
flrss arsate the scientific nlnd 30 ron
cannot have faith unless yotl acquire
the aaith-mird. Blessed are the clean
|of heart for they shall see God. A
theologian cannot discourse on
science without having had scientific
training, neither can scientist pro-
nfa.nca M, paIsvi,n II he has not de-
veloped that faculty which enables
hin Is enter fnto that hisaer domain
Eoa truth and beauty which II faith.
what IL faith ha beyond the counpe-
fence of the classical schools Or the
Iarcheologist Or biologist rs science Is.
beyond the layman and moral ideas
beyond the depraved Perhaps they
lack faith because they lack The Wis
t0ns n liz true that the man OF faith
cannot understand science unless he.
became specialist: It IS equally
true Chat the man al scienca cannot.
entes stl ~
feas lie bec0ulsa child.
nls~ion has 81 quarrel with pI1y-
stcaI science but when physical
science would encroacEl upon the pre-
roRatfye OF religion and place earthly
chains neon the higher science of re-
lfRsnn. fha chuxch stems between and
s,sys ..Na, Won have 10 right To IN.
trnda where ANGELS fear to tread. ST
Peter said the ignorant and unstable
wgewt the Scriptures to their danra-
sGon. without faith the scientist
comes under the category Of those
Who are ignorant and unstable Ii re-
lIgion. A scientist may Be moral
citizen, but II he has not the faculties
sOf the faith-naind be y not qualined
% declare upon religion sqnae q the