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Show KBPMML1R.IL, he Tendency of Eeligious Thought of the Present Day Id Towards Liberality- JEWSPAPEES OF THE PRESENT, Taking Money Out of Kleptomaniacs-Thumb Kleptomaniacs-Thumb Nail Pictures Cremation Cre-mation Notes. . The drift of modern thought, as any roe can discover -in our currant literature, litera-ture, in newspapers, magazines and reviews, re-views, is not anti-religious, but the re-jverse. re-jverse. That -the drift is anti-ecclesiastical and anti-dogmatic is equally certain. cer-tain. The pulpit has almost abandoned lolemio utterances. Scores and hun-Ireds hun-Ireds of churches would not endure ,hem. They were once the fashion, and lublic debates on the rites and doctrines f opposing sects were ia high favor. IV'e have outgrown all that. The change s partly due to social and commercial noses. The Calvinist has fallen in love -ith the Methodist, and has not found lie heresy to be very pernicious. The Unitarian has entered into partnership lith the Unitarian, and discovered the ttter to be the soul of honor. ' Impatience with dogma is not neces-arily neces-arily the repudiation of doctrine. The ruest reason may break with the logi-;11 logi-;11 refinements of the schools. The anti-oginatic anti-oginatic drift of our time does not im-ress im-ress me as antagonizing intelligence in .ligion, as hostile to analysis, defmi-ion defmi-ion and systematic, arrangement, but s intent upon calling a halt upon spec-lative spec-lative audacity, and insisting that the-log)-, like science and philosophy, shall cal only with what can be accurately nown. It domands the rigid applica-ion applica-ion of the Baconian method, in which icts are the groundwosk of theory. It rtmauds a simpler croed, but it wants a reed, and it would repudiate any creed hich lacked the quality of comprehen-,m. comprehen-,m. The time has come when it should e freely recognized that modern criti-ium criti-ium is at heart reverent and Christian, ot flippant, atheistic and anti-Chris-an. How serious, then, is the breach be-sveen be-sveen modern culture and current or-iiodosyl or-iiodosyl To me, at least, it seems to be thin and vanishing line; and the hope f a coalescenoa in the near future ap- lars to me well founded. It cannot be Itherwise. For reason seeks the truth, nd all truth is sacred, binding upon uman conduct; while Christianity is le religion of holiness, and the germi-ant germi-ant energy in holiness is veiacity, a nth seeking, truth loving, truth compiling com-piling temper. Rev. Dr. Behrends in oruin. |