The Need For Some Venture Of Faith

Far From Being Hostile To Religion Is Capable Of Rendering Religion Important Services.

One Of The Most Striking Results Of Modern Investigation Has Been The Way In Which Several Different And Quite Independent Lines Of Evidence Indicate That A Very Great Event Occurred About Two Thousand Million Years Ago. The Radio-active Evidence For The Age Of Meteorites; And The Estimated Time For The Tidal Evolution Of The Moon's Orbit (though This Is Much Rougher), All Agree In Their Testimony, And, What Is Far More Important, The Red-shift In The Nebulae Indicates That This Date Is Fundamental, Not Merely In The History Of Our System, But In That Of The Material Universe As A Whole.

Conflict Between Science And Religion A Dangerous Foe.

For Myself, If I Am To Stake All I Have And Hope To Be Upon Anything, I Will Venture It Upon The Abounding Fullness Of God - Upon The Assurance That, As The Heavens Are Higher Than The Earth, So Are His Ways Higher Than Our Ways, And His Thoughts Than Our Thoughts.

The Need For Some Venture Of Faith Still Remains; One Must Stake One's Life Upon Something.