Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20
DECLARE SCIENCE
AID TO RELIGION
Eminent Scientists Tell Meth
odist Conference Religion
Cannot Live in Past"
9y the Associs ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, October 2O-Two emf
nent American scientists last night told
the Methodist Ecumenical Conference
that science does support religion and
make it "tenable'
The speakers were Dr. Charles Fell
ton Scott OF Yale and William Nc
Dougall. professor of psychology at Duke
University. Durham. n. c.
Mr.. McDougall said that biology and
psychology render religion tenable. not
Hithstandine freud. Man is a spiritual
being and through the mind controls
the physical world and shapes it."
DR.. Scott said: Science supplies the
means of carrying ont. the plans OF
Jesus.
Religion cannot live in its past and
use the tools of the present 1t must
understand the present. and it must
express itself and its aims that the
leaders in affairs can understand and
accept it as their goal"
Block Prohibition Move.
British delegates yesterday blocked
efforts OF staunch prohibition advocates
within the Methodist Church to force
a separate pronouncement on the liquor
question.
q group meeting to which several ques-
tions had been assigned for discussion.
1t was the objection OF Rev. c. Ensor
Walters of London that finally pre-
vented a division of reports. after
Bishop James Cannon. jr had ad-
dressed the meeting and had been
termed "a martyred and prosecuted
man.
We Britishers sympathize with you
in Your liquor problem Mr.. Walters
said. but we have come a long way
TO Join with YOU in this great confer
ence and feel that the questions of
modern marriage and unemployment
are equal in the church with prohi-
bition.
Il am personally with you in the
fight. but these other matters should
not be relegated to the background and
che subject given undue prominence,
which YOU seek to give it,
Mr.. Walters had previously received
applause when he declared that the
church should change its marriage
vows, containing the phrase until death
do us part or decline to permit di-
Norced persons to receive the blessings
of the denominations. He said he was
opposed to birth control. because the
Use of contraceptives of any kind is
against God and the church.
DR.. Wilson Speaks.
The group meeting was one of series
and had fol- its general theme The
Christian Social Order"
On opening the meeting Rev. Orien
w. Fifer. D. D.. of indianapolis. chair
man, was authorized ID appoint COM
mittea Of seven to consider the four
questions up for discussion. amusements,
marriage. employment and temperance.
The latter was interpreted by Ernest
Fl. Ch3rrirgton of Westerville. Ohio, to
whom the question was assigned, as
meaning prohibition.
At the completion Of the program a
p""iod vas set aside for discussion. and
DR.. Clarence True Wilson. secretary of
the Board of Temperance. Prohibition
and Public Morals of the Methodist
Episcopal Church was called upon to
speak
Dr. Wilson said the Methodist
Church must do what it started cut TO
no. put the liquor traffic out and keep
it out
Although there are many who are Of
another opinion. say that prohibition
has done more TO clean up the politics
OF this country than anything in the
past century,
At this point an unidentified person
in the rear said Bishop Cannon was "a
rartyred and prosecuted man"
Amid applause Bishop Cannon took
the floor. He referred 20 all Of the
major questions discussed during the
afternoon and said:
L don't think any civiliza ton can be
called Christian that permits people to
go hungry. 1t is up TO the church to
lead in aiding the unemployed.