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" Science Leads a Man to God" "The more a man thinks and studies, the greater grows his faith" they would see that Galileo's t he Galileo case the Pope and Speaking on the occasion ot tion acted not from hatred of Cardinals had the best of it. The judges at hall science a the opening of but from a love of truth. Church is indeed the enemy of the Christian Brothers' College, science, error; she Is not the enemy of lianly. Monsignor T. TI science, and to give one fact that matter this mention why But the of opening the that DD.. said the objection is we all know, who, I ask, are the science hall reminded him of an at all? Indeed, and Professor leaders in Sydney in the importraised, seldom now and arroont Ili attack made in that in ant science of seismography? We admitted himself Hoxley Church the that tones haughty Cyril is opposed to science. SOWN condemned flypatia; Averroes (d. 1198) was opposed by Spanish theologians; Popes Paul and Urban VIII. condemned Galileo, and in our own days our libert7,' denied us by Pius IX. and Pius Y. in their syllabi of errors. But Galileo's case is the trump car(!. 1-1 and especially the abjuration made before seven Cardinals at 1. 44.4tot big1.4,64ilusttivei : ,14101.41410,4 Rome on June 22, 1633. The. 713/trillt, OttIttltig I. s .1 . • • 4.4), aged hero of 70 years knelt anc. fl'i i 35 KIttfiatO "'sq.., • xi cursed as heresy the Copernican t Mztr. s it, • 4.44 system. The names of Draper. 1.1 .84,101,.•ii Akti Brewster and Bury are well 71. 400 :Ss . 4e‘ "-MI* 41, .0.444 known in this connection. They lot.T. • have, as it were, canonised Gal,I. . leo as the great inartyr of science, 0 0 and their motive was not s.) much love or sympathy for the „ great man of Pisa, but rather old hatred of the Church. "Move c,t, 0 st.n," prayed Josue. and 1, 101. centuries men fancied that the sun moved daily across the 1.heavens. It was in 1543 that a Polish priest, Copernicus, in a work dedicated to Pope Paul III., ggested that it was not the sun, The Public Chapel, which is part of the Carmelite but rather the earth, that moved. Monastery at Nedlands contains these grilles, HC°Pernicanism was a hypothesis; through one of which the Sisters from their own Ht Was not an established theory. chapel obtain a clear view of the Mass or othes A Century later, in the days of Sanctuary. the c eremonies pniortned in Paul V. and Urban VIII.. GaliThrough an aputure in the other grille the 1,1 w110 was Sisters receive Holy Communion. rather a violent, ,' ''ocksure, conceited man, and who , during the ' inhesitate to controversy did not burlesque Pope Urban the dialogue published in 1632, Galileo, advanced the theory atks fully proven, whereas men like 11,1 8a..e English scientist, Francis con, held just the con. iz trary, v1626, had not b that the new theory een proven. The Ro1 ;Cli theologians were conscious , (It tne the Whole Position' men like („mine,hisao,u,s Jesuit, Robert Ballar"Prove the new the ory and We will accept it. In the ttiretitaistil let us take the Scripas itt has been hitherto uni ntim °°(1 (Terra autetn in aeterstat sun it is that ; Moves; not move,,\. `" earth does dinais ' No, the Roman Carand Roman theologians of ,, : they d were not obscurantists ; The imposing brick arch is the entrance to the Carmelite ,were. Chapel at Nedlands. The gateway contains a grille through Selence' s'" the contrary, men i overe , men of prudence: and which the Touriere Sisters speak to visitors and also a small m en of to which is opened to admit people to hear Mass in the door -d , -otter,.a ay •- present in the at the tamous Public Chapel abjura•
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—Pasteur. all know that the Jesuit Fathers at Riverview are the leaders. Absurdities of Unbelievers. Science leads a man to God. I am aware that somp scientists have been, and are to-day, unbelievers—such as Von Humboldt, Von. Virchow, Tyndal, Moleschott—but Pasteur said: "The more a man thinks and studies the greater grows his faith." The visitor to Manly has a good view of the Bridge from the steamer, and he thinks what a brain the engineer must have had. A wild savage in Papua picks up in the jungle a pocket-knife lost there by a surveyor, and he knows full well that the knife was made by a man and not by a monkey. But in the work of Nature is there purpose, is there a great design in Nature? No! says the unbeliever; it is chance, it is luck, it is fluke, it is the blind force that is inherent in matter—it is not There is no design in design, Nature, he goes on. A bird ha wings and flies, but did not get the wings with a view to flying. A man has two eyes and sees, but the eyes, those exquisite organs, were not made that man might see! In the same way,. by some chance., we have our two legs and we walk; the young mother nourishes her babe at her breast with the milk that happens somehow to be there at that time! If we ask our opponents for the cause of the change of seasons they explain the relative position of the earth, and then attribute that relation to chance or the blind forces of Nature. There are brains, then, behind the Harbour Bridge, but: the universe supposes no mind and no design. The Philosopher Knew. Imagine, said Aristotle, a people living in the bo.wels of the earth. They reside in a palace. well furnished and resplete with every comfort. Suppose the jaws of the earth to open .and allow them to come out on this our earth. When they had seen the sea and land, the sky with the immense clouds, when th.ey had felt the force of the wind, when they had seen the sun and realised how it diffuses light over the earth, when at night they had seen the sky studded with stars and the moon now increasing and now waning, when they had seen the rising and the setting of the heavenly bodies—their eternal and fixed courses — assuredly they would exclaim: "There is a God, and these are His works."