Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1911 — COLLEFEVILLE ITRMS. [ARTICLE]

COLLEFEVILLE ITRMS.

At a aasa meeting last Sunday Clifford Reed was re-elected basket ball manager for the ensuing year. Prospects are splendid tq t a good team and a strong schedule Is being arranged. - W* were pleased to entertain the following visitors last week: Rev. Godfrey Schlacter, C. PP. S., Ft. Wayne, George Zink, Miss Helen Thesing. Lorain, Ohio; Mrs. Emma FVdorka, Whiting; T. J. Warren, Miss Harriet L. Sullivan, T. C. Monahan and daughters, Chicago; Mrs. J. G. Reldelbach, Winamac; Mrs. N. Noe. Indianapolis; Mrs. W. W. Brown, Goshen. - —- r —- The C. L, S. held "their regular program Sunday evening. The most in tereating number was the debate between Francis Beuke and James Tekath on the subject. Resolved that the duty of the policeman in a large city is more hazardous than that of a fireman. ,

James L. Walsh, M. D. PH. D., Bea t of the faculty of medicine, Fordham University, after being introduced his audience by Rev. I. Rapp, Monday night, spoke for an hour on the attitude of the Church toward Science. He proved te be a delightful speaker, and held his audience in the acme of interest during his entire lecture. “So much ''and so often,” he said, “have we heard people speak of the opposition of the Church toward science that on account of these repetitions we are apt to conclude that there must be some truth in the assertions, but it is founded on anything but truth.” In proof of this statement, he enumerated many noted scientists of the modern age who, being Catholics, had lived good Catholic lives, some of them even having asserted that science rather Increased their faith. “It is only the small mind that in the deep study of science loses its faith; the big mind has no trouble whatever.”

He then disproved the statement often brought forth that the Church of old had been opposed to science by comparing our modern age with past ages and showing that -ours falls far short with regard to scientific discoveries. We call our age progressive yet it is doing nothing to be proud of, nothing in literature, nothing in architecture, nothing in ptainting or sculpture comparable to the works of the “old masters.” He proved that for six eenturies Italy, under the influence of the Popes had done more for science than any other government in the world, and that never have the achievements of Michael Angelo, Da Vinci, Kempis, Copernicus, or Columbus been equaled. Yet these men and many others have received their education in the papal schools. He showed that the case of Galileo, the much-mentioned case of the opposition, is very much exaggerated. Professor Walsh concluded his lecture by making a brief summary of his remarks, thus impressing it strongly upon his hearers that the Church has not only not been opposed to science but has done much more for it than we can conceive. ~