Show BISHOP OF OP Ill 0 The fhe Contel lons of Augustine A RB RS ron ren rendered dered Into h by Dr Pusey lusey with an nn Introduction by H If 1 f C Canon Conon of Westminster has bus just been published by b K U M Caldwell Co Bos noH Boston ton and Now New York It is I part lIrt of ot a ii serian ot of known K fI as rime rh lied fled Let Letter Letter ter ler Library It 11 Is II a handsome little book that In lu He ItS American makeup should b be welcome to American II reail en era and especially students of at theology 81 lit Augustine without doubt the tha of ot the he Latin fathers father He ne sag AI born horn In Africa In III the time year Though hit his hi mother moth II was WAIl a 1 devout Chris linn Augustine hiLt dill not embrace that faith until h he was years yearn ot otage 0 f fage age RK a conclusive proof by b the way that tUt at his hili time tinie the western church luau hUll not yet et made Infant sprinkling a 1 ordinance During fluting his youth and stud earliest life lit h lie give gave 00 way to the tha temptations l of ot his hl age and ond fell 11 Into time the low depths depth ot of Immorality While In Carthage he embraced to some seine extent the views of ot the who tAUght aught the time existence existent from nil all eter eler eternity of ot two principles ono one of ot good and andone ono one of ot doctrine that tImed seemed to him him at itt th the time to best h t explain the conflict raging within luimit between h tween good god and ad 1 evil each earh in turn claiming the victory In lit his hi soul IOUI Later lie he h went to nome Home a against t lb wishes of ot his hla hi be he beloved loved loveil mother At Milan he h was WU as eon oon n I 11 and joined the church About bout the IM year ur r SU 50 I he ha was a appointed bishop at Hippo and he held that onto office for forg forn g n years yean 11 or until his hi death The rue treat great work of oC Augustine consist consisted ed fOil In the n tight ht against I the heretics ht of ot hit his ago age Among Amour thee thew the were N the already referred to anti and the this who Mho denied pardon and ami fellowship to There TheN were also aleo time the who taught that ibid th the sin of ot Adam did rut not affect hIS hla posterity and that consequently ach human be being beIng beung ing ung la ha born with raw ra an M Incorrupt a athorn mae AI thorn thoa of ot Attain Adam They 1111 also held that children dying In Infancy mare art N saved without baptism Such vere Mim oine of at the tendencies of hi the age aSe In which lived and amid lie ht Hl to te the tile of ot the tha tb for tor whAt lit ht Ii considered heresy For Pur r he hewal wee wai In Iii this world work He ne wrote numerous treatises on eu theology find and time tilt doctrines concern lug Ing In M Clod pin pill the tIm of ut man re ms etc sic lit Iii accordance with time the light he b wm was ot of drawing train mu the Scripture and Rill from his hla en peon pou liar experience Especially strong upon the subject of 01 I lIen kit by I filth faith no taya ss ssI S JU I t hum hit bestoW he low inure mure of ci hit his In to 10 tono toM no M other othir have his hl views view so li ply ly and II th lb nooses of at 0 ehrl thought It U I well worth the tho th lanes Inner workings ot of the 11 mInd of lC a II moan man that Hood Lood so 0 near 1 UK age I and whose hol InI II up upon upon on 01 thus the I theology l of ot all cli succeeding ha has lean been o grant r it timid In hIs hi con on f NiI nt niece more than In any other of fit lid hie hi eat aau this he iso dune H Jt Hero rc w uve IVe can n view hint him hI In hl his hll AM MY a 11 child a schoolboy a student of ot scIences a I professor of ot rhetoric at al Carthage Carth house and Milan and here we t can olin follow tollow him In his hla u search r h for tor light lIht and Here lIre wt t alto also ne sic b before for us the venerable fIgures figure of Monica Am Ambrose Ambro Ambross brose bross bro and others It Tt U is I one of ot th Ih the Sew few books book of ot pu pl literature It can best beat be II with A Komp or John Immortal work works The thoughtful reader of or our day dRY who Intelligence above all IU will willon willas on as B he be prOOfed proceeds to listen to the cents cont ilon pion of ot the lbs Ih celebrated bishop of ot HIp po JIO at the dim light with which he hi h a ma great reat leader Iader of ot men wee wai w fled tied Por Instance on 01 the doctrine of ot ofIn otIn Gin In he h Who ho me of th the sins of or my Infancy Int no Kor or In III Inthy thy th sIght night none miens Id is II pure pur from sin ln In nut hot ven even the Infant whose who life lite Is ls but hut A n day tl d upon th the earth If It this Is I true trims what whitt effect hat hal the redemption of ot Christ 1 he regarded regal a all ci a cleansing from thus antI and all sin As 8 a R boy hu Ito took sick lick and asked for tor baptism ballam Hut But he lie became will well th the rite was de da erred Aud so he h says n at nl It If I must mule be again polluted should hould I 1 live my cleansing was w deterred deferred be he because cause the of ot simm would alt att alter atter altor er or that thud washing bring greater arid and more perilous guilt In III other oIlier words wants sin committed before boore Is III not quite as ns sinful a Oil no that till committed after the th eternal origin of ot man Augustine was Willi In total to darkness as all the following clearly shows show Soy any to m me ins thy pitiable one onel say SA en tild Id my Infancy succeed another age uee ag of at mains that died before It Il Was Willi It that which I spent within my mothers womb And A nIl what before that life lito again 0 God Clod my m joy jO was 1 I or anybody For or this I have none Ilone to tell me mae m neither father tat her nor mother nor 1101 experience of ot others nor mine own memory Itow How feebly did 1111 di l the light of ot revelation r really illy that age ac upon such Buch an nn Important ques quell lion heal With regard to tho the doctrine of 01 tho the Deity Velt Augustine hued hud the works of his Imi hl predecessor to guide him And nd he be h spent more or lew of ot thirty of at his timo In explaining the Impossible conception of at th the god of lulI Is really pagan In origin Tho Time following of ot his confessions reveals the tho Contu confusion Contusion sion shea of or his Itis hi mind on this subject nut But thou who nile t nil all thou thorn them with thy whole self Or sine all things cannot contain thee wholly do they contain part of oC thee And AmI all nt lIt once onoe the same sante part 1 Or end each 8 ch Its It II own part the greater more Inore tim the smaller less loslI Anti And IK Is I then than ono One part of thee thoa greater another less leAs Or art rt thou wholly everywhere while con eon contains I theo thee wholly This will mince to give Rive an nn Idea Ida of th the Intellectual status of the age of at Augus Augustine tine tub And nd wh when n that is understood It ItU itIs U Is al also o easily comprehended o how sub subtle tie tle errors could creep crep In antI and gain aln cur currency money rency The rite Th of 01 the th churches at that time were vere gifted men They WeT were often otten well versed treed In philosophy and In iii Inthe Inthe the sciences Dut hut the light of ot rev reve shone but dimly dim Into Inlo their heart because they Ih were tilled with the phi philosophy philosophy of ot their time and they thoy very often ott for tor truth their own logical deductions for Cor or revelation phil philosophy philosophy And so an great errors name MillO awl and drove Irue true Christianity out of ot tho the world acrid |