Show THE DEBATABLE LAND hubert daan owen has in pra a volume which will le be fur for willi great interest anil and doubtless rend read with wilh equal pleasure and profit by thoughtful people it relates to the iho debatable land between this hij find an thenell find and while it diebus es almost omy every question or importance in religious religions doctrine minis aims to allow what certain knowledge and nl unquestionable ule faith we have hato of immortality awl the chr char acter or of the lire life that hat follows this lie ile maintains binl that while the tendency of modem maeci n thought anil and spirit of the iho ase ago are ant aali papal protestantism Protest antimo cm cin never overcome catholicism until it can teah each a letter better doctrine of the future and on unquestionable eri evidence dence tile tho cilc tide of public ominio opinio Is 11 telling K ailing in against lie old alj doctrine or of infallibility the line or human progress is from the less to tho the more of liberty despotisms Despotis ms give ditc way to limited monarchies limited monarchies tend to republicanism and more especially is the iho sentiment of the present day adverse to mental and spiritual coercion the world is rapidly reaching mg the conclusion that a god of goodness and mercy never has granted and never will grant to any n man bian or to any a gill gift or of in infallibility AT libi lity which would entitle its pos sr to punish and other men liters and other they jol did what cons iunce enjoined anil and did what remo reason taught them under such circumstances we might be led to expect the immediate downfall or of a doctrine fraught with barbarity its ultimate downfall is ill certain yet ats i hold bold is 19 still st strong rougon on the human mind and there ere are grave difficulties in the way of its abolition men are arc wirily loath to pull down an old house how bow dilapidated until they hey see ace their way to some other shelter wherewith therewith to replace it this mr air oxen oen thinks protestants Prote stanta have not yet done and liia his work attempts to point out if not to lo supply the deficiency geldert 1 cje l |