Show r CHRISTIANITY HOT TO BLAME E s i A brief telegram from Chicago in ISLE Tuesdays HERALD stated that I f > Unity Church had instructed the a trustees to inform the pastor Rev r Geo C Miln that his connection 4 with the church as pastor would G cease within three months The lE dispatch was somewhat blind to the I i farwestern newspaper leader no I cause being stated for this fr + 4 I t action on the part of the church Dr Miln is a rather tt i prominent divine of Chicago whose f F Sunday sermons have been printed ° r in the newspapers of that city For some time he has been pastor oft jl of-t Unity Church + Presbyterian from 12 l which he is now to be deposed stf II C The reason for his turning out 1 tl 1 is the very best that could be f l i y assigned He recently publicly announced t e t an-nounced that he no longer believed i I i t in the Deity the scriptures or the t L immortality of the soul and declared t t de-clared himself without creed or i + ii faith His expulsion from the ii 1 pulpit was of course a natural k consequence of such a declaration Christian people could not well be a1 t a of content to listen to the preaching of 1 r such a man It is observed that I some of the newspapers are accepting accept-ing this case as they did the late ikr action of Dr Prothmgham of New Hi York in expressing doubt as to h1 t certain hitherto orthodox doctrines as an indication that Christianity is losing its influence upon the i1 minds of intelligent men We think it rather proves that the Christian religion fails to enlighten ilI the minds of men as it should do so 1 as to enable them to detect the R frauds and humbugs among those who profess to believe and preach Christianity The Rev Miln has been a weathercock as to creeds Mi now pointing in this direction and e again in that He has been an enthusiast 3 thusiast as his sermons plainly tell At one time he was a ranting Methodist and then he was such a Presbyterian as would have made Calvin appear a very mildvoiced 11 r exhorter The broadest liberality is r proclaimed in some of his discours while ifn others his orthodoxyis of the most rigid character It is charitable to say of t such men that they are cranks To say they are anything r it else is to charge them with insincerity insin-cerity antI declare their motives unworthy i I un-worthy Miln we tike it has never been a sincere Christian if he f has he has never been a sincere believer be-liever in creeds or he could not i hawe switched from track to track i as he has done Like jjGuiteau he was afflic ej with an overwhelming i desir for uoioiity and a change 4 r of churches made lain alkyd about f more than t he at ck i g t one Hi i ih floppinjfsm tlint line having ceased Ito it t a ± I I-to be sensational he now gets himself de1 him-self talked about by a departure in j it a 1 4 i f J r 1 rs Y r a + new irectin Because a Miln leaties lie church it4 mTeridence jj thaJ tshriati snit y is an error or is v CY losing its power As well might we say that republican doctrines were l a failure because a crazy wretch shoots the President |