Deseret Evening News | 1899-05-06 | Page 4 | Evening Edition, Theology of the Future

TIICOMXIV nr Till i Drum Aa he old century It drawing lo a finite 1 a great many lu whom religion I I has not lint all Importance unilouily look Into the future aaklng what will INI the theology of the nell generation That Ideas suit concept ar rapllly chaining It I etldenti particularly In tin Protestant world old theological around I It abandoned and I new rusittnal are rilabllihed Th ilcrlnlllon once 1411 I down of the church ut the norm 1 menle ot Ilia Iniplratltin 11 the IIILie ot generation Juillilrallon lanctin culluii ore no longer ntrlctly olhereil lo The standards ul faith nit different from thoa ot Hit age In which church ca were founded What will the text century bring forlhT Among those who rngtga In foreoiiit Oil title ezcrwllngly Interesting Subject la I Stay llenjamln r Mill In I a Mass line article partly quoted In the lAter I ary Dlgeit of April fifth Acrordln to his tl a the fhrlitlanlly uf the fulur will present lo mankind an enlarged conception of IKxt neither Hit mag nlfed man or ilia Jew nor the nature nf the Pantheist but both ot thIA0 And u I greater Idea than either merited ta kelhcr Miat this KreuK 1 14 An I 10 I InllmalH toy arguing that lha ben we know if Und In what we see In 1 nun not only In the good men but In I all On the doctrine of man the chang will bo tow ardi the recognition of n unlveraal brotherhood The JeMlvh hrolhethood Mr Mllla says was like that of Secret tucltllo It Included a L few peIle 100un1 together In me na unn Th ChIII Itlea won bessmarr Simple et all nation wen taken Inlo fellowship but the new Collators will bt content with nothing letis 1 than a irotherhowl of all men In 1M clooit and hollit ton I aa Penn and daughter of the rternal One According to this author the doctrine of creation will gltt way for that of evolution The Illbl wilt low l obsolete ILl there never wait a book wiltten and never nlll IK OM that aa an vapresolon ot aulherlly will list anenuat for any but Ha own time For sin there can I I HI no place In this new theology for the fall 1111110 falling of the tree uf knoKledg Indead of txlnc a > curve haa been the Iniplratlon the rlr note glrea a fair Idea of the direction of thought prophenled for the Immedl Air future It prove too mat light li hunting forth In iplenJor upon the ok l nlkhl al worldly theology Her and there win I men ar Wing narneil by I the appearance ot a light In the Harry t sky ot the approach of the < lng ol glory The rlewa 1 or > Imper eel There ll I much darkness yet but hIlxht there U I li I pmmlilng more 10 on III la In lisp I lea ot nod that the rev gentleman wee leaal clearly Anl hit li I no wonder Kter lint the Ihe logical dictum was accepted thai each an ot the Hire permni In the nodhtad 10 I lneomprrrifnltle anl > et there are not Hire Inromirehenlu1 > but on the majority of men have ben In 1 the ruth has been again reveale1 to man kind and more clearly than In any the others ot modem theology hove heir root for true knowledg of out arl lilt Bon U on divine minority life eternal Now the religion of the future will be built upon the revelation ot the fatherhood ot lint This wu pro CIA I med liy Chrlil 1 but rejected by men except In n ngurallre fene The ruth I ban been again revealed to the world I and more clearly than In any rtloua dliiHiiMtlon anl U la I being nHtainted with great fore throughout The world I lit acceptance will be the fiundallon ot tile new religion of which the unl Vervill l brolherhootl will W I a retult But II would bo vain to look for this Independent of lod All human sortie CM aa far aa hlitory know has com rom led man conforming to lilt com I Commitments The Opposite Course meant I rclrogrraelon Truth light < ower to comprehenil good ao1 evil and all ouch artot divine origin One ot the most neednl Uaka ot mod vrn Iheology la I to reconsider tile great work don under ran dlfflcultlea by the heologlant ol the tint Hire centurlea and find out If that foundallonwaa not erroneous In many delalla It must look to new revelation un many Point without which only conjecture exists In the world l Then then la I hope ut true religion A Protons founded on mticon ceplloni ot 01 l cannot be true In other particular and this U I exactly flit iu altlon ot the theological systems ct the world