Show TALKS TO DOUBTERS DOUBTER i Divine Humanity Forms Chief Discussion At Conference BY THOMAS THOL en Cit 1 tIN Special Correspondent Standard Standard- t r r COP right 1923 WASHINGTON y 1 A 12 12 11 A A re- re religious re rl religious convention which devote devoted devoted Its entire time to a reitern- reitern reiteration I tion ot of o the divinity of ot Jesus Christis not finding fault Cault with Ith the doubters I Dr Percy Stickney Grant of ot otI I New York but endeavoring to ox- ox cx away aay these doubts began In Washington this week It Is ts the hundred nn and second annual session ot of the tho gen general genral ral con of ot the New In the United States or of America otherwise known as the New church and made up of ot the follo eta era ot of o the he great S Swedish scientist and Emmanuel Sweden berg bergIn In the call for the tho eOD convention It was announced that It would euld con con- concentrate con its lis thought upon the meaning of the tho divine humanity It Is the contention ot of the Newchurch ew church that whoever er discards the Ir ln birth ot of o Christ t must first discard the tho prophets and the whole testimony ot Of the New Much of ot the tho doubt as to the dh ot of the Christ has had to do nith ith Ills ability to don den human form and d dwell well on the earth tor for so long lone IL a time as aa a human being A Ln IS I I The Rev Thomas A King pastor of the Church of ot the tho Redeemer at Ohio undertook to ans er this doubt before the coun coun- council coun- coun council cil of or New church ministers The New churchman h he said aid he does doe not presume to know all the tho mysteries in involved in the wonderful process bv by which God took human form torm upon himself yet ho he docs does know that God I la is and that a finite Cloud soul is CI by the finite father that It is an offshoot front from the tho finite father fathers s a spirit that God fills tills and animates with His onn creative creatie life liCe The New church church- churchman churchman churchman man sees that the divino divine life lire itself was the very ery soul of o the chill child born bornI I ot of Mary Her lIer soul was divine and andai as God Is one and Indivisible there there- therefore andI I tore lore Jesus as to his Inmost wasI was I Jehovah ah who In region of life occupied in any ordinary ordinary ordinary nary man by the human Internal Ju Just t as a profound philosopher la Is capable of oC descending from philo philo- heights and abstractions and putting on the father may tal take o his child into his hia arms and by accommodating his bis mind to the child s mind come CODle into loving loSIng touch I Ith a hi his childish states and thus establish reciprocity and mental in interchange between himself and his I child so God Goel Is capable of oC descend descend- descendIng descending ing log from Ills His infinite heights and by clothing Ills His Inmost divinity I moro more and more exterior e forms can reveal himself to His Ills children and establish bet between een and them reciprocity antI and mental In- In Interchange In Interchange In doing this He 10 no nomore nomore more ceases to bo be infinite than the philosopher ceases to be a IL phil phil- philosopher philosopher phil philosopher I by descending mentally menially to tho plane piano of or the child Thus we tare told that the divine divinO Is Sa capable lot of passing from its supreme seat and becoming manifest to sight and hearing a DIVINE IE HUM m This divine capacity by which Go God relates himself to finite beings Is called theology of ot the New Newchurch Newchurch Newchurch church the divine The however er Is not something separate from an outside God but is a region of ot divine hu- hu human human hu human man feeling and thought lying the tho circumference of ot God s a the the only begotten Son SonIn lit the te bosom of ot the rather Father Here then in tile the dh divinely revealed the the- theology the theology elegy of the tho New ew church wo we hae the tho explanation of ot the two opposIng opposing ing lines linea of ot teaching concerning the being Other noted New church pastors like the venerable Dr Br Clarence Lathbury L of also base ha made brilliant addresses ten tending to refute al doubt as to he e of God Lathbury saving that it I lea lanot not unusual for many persons persona to tosa toan sa an We dont don't 1 know knon 00 It If we ce e dont don't know knon Tie ho said sald It at itIs Is because we are arc still children |