Show LIMITED 1 NOT POSSIBLE I I i Ii Rev Prank Frank Eddy Advances New I Thoughts on Needs of Mod Modern Modem ern em Religion I POPULAR FORMS ATTACKED ALLEGED RELIGIOUS CONCEPTIONS TO 1 I I REv Frank Fay Eddy drew a corn com comparison parison in his sermon ermon yesterday be between tween the religion that he believed i ought to result as a natural and logical I deduction from the broad bread generalizations 1 of modern thought as to man and i his place in the universe and the al alleged illogical conceptions that persist In popular forms of faith He began I by showing how inductive logic had I gIven an assurance and certainty of knowledge not by ancient I or mediaeval society In religion he said certain great changes were Im Impending pending as a logical result of the broadening promises from which aU religious deductions must be made Mr Eddy declared that practically all cultured and educated people of the present day admitted certain broad generalizations in regard to man and his world Broadly speaking tIre th clr cler said there might be said to be first that man is living In a universe that is to his faculties immeasurable second that man is of a growing type with his higher only partially developed third that man is an ani anima mal ma but one with a dIstinctive spIrit spIritual spiritual ual element These are inductions that cannot be evaded by anyone who is ac acquainted with the abundant evidence collected by modern science A Human InstitutIon Mr Ir Eddy continued From these Inductions certain deductions seem not only to logically be possible but Inevitable inevitable table Confining ourselves to the do domain domain main of religion some of these would be that such a man in such a universe must need an inclusive thought of God to be harmonious with his wide uni universe universe verse His idea of revelation should conceive of a continuous process whereby the story of the divine imma immanence immanence nence is read as an unfoldIng tale It would be a story of God revealing him himself himself self in orderly sequences and not in inthe Inthe the closed canons of holy books or in mIracles that transcend law Its ChrIst thought would seem logically to tobe tobe be that of a developing human ideal personalized in many Inspired prophets and leaders His church would be frankly considered a human institution institution tion but one that expressed and cultivated cultivated the noblest aspirations and most sublime ideals of that humanity Such would seem to be the logical deductions from the broad premises named Some such religion as this logIcally deserves to possess the world The facts of the cast cash seem to make some such religious philosophy as this inevitable A Limited God Yet the religious ideas current in society are still sUll those which talk of and talk to a limited God a kind of enlarged man in heaven or to a deified Christ or a Virgin Mary All revelation tion important to salvation is conceived 1 to be found between the lids of the Bible the church is venerated as an institution with a peculiar and divine I beginning to guard and dispense the merit purchased by Christs cruci crucifixion to undeserving sinners All these conceptions are entirely illogical if one permits himself to as assent assent sent to the new inductions from the be facts namely that man is a spiritual being of a growing type living in a universe that is to his ken infinite Why should these conceptions live on In the popular theology Simply be because because cause they are the consequences of the 1 past |