| Show Cl Ol Oi r i Joseph A priest In The tot tor October maintains that modern has II a towards toward the tho denial of aC the doctrine Qt t the divinity ot of the II lie nd ad admits mits that ot of toy loy ally Illy worship the Son ot of God but ho he contends that the very eo nature ot of Pro ro Is such lIB as to make Its Ite pro a mere preface to bold denial n ot of what ts true disciples disciple hold to he their darest literal truth of oC Incarnation Is 1 it sweeping criticIsm on the numerous bodies ot of Christian esso that Pride themselves on the orthodoxy ot of their creeds and the Im Immaculate maculate conception of oC their doctrines Hut But Is It not flot just juat to a 0 great grent extant He Moerley looks at the religious In the world and finds these 00 conditions nil lit III Germany where there stilt thun thunders ders the echo uC of lion or of religious freedom the pure hA has given Iven birth la in to pietism rationalism Ideal lIm sentimentalism pantheism In leneva the Rome nome of oC where Far Fetch 1 preached and le leg lucid has ime he de Into III a sort ut of baptized delam too II little I lie ChristIan I might almost nty to meet the approbation ot of a or a VoltaIre In Holland and Franl with insignificant lions tlona the Reformed churches hurchel have tit be become rome come anti and rationalistic In Intact tact whatever they may be In name In hi Norway ora Sweden anti ml Denmark there are arf decided indications o of a revIval of or the old Scandinavian In England and aad th the older deism or of the seventeenth and eIghteenth centuries Is II succeeded b by a amr mr meager spiritualIsm which t is only mIserable humanism and In hI this cotta try to rj t au dogmas doal to make Christianity IL a mere scenic Irenic dIsplay and nd to HUI down In 1 a revIved necromancy and nel ship When same me few rew tAre eare sines your Protestant delegates met In a worlds world convention at t London to devise and Ind effect a for tor the overthrow ot at they ther found that there w were no common doctrines on which the they could agree not even een that of the immortality o of the loul and nd 11 eie to separate without draw mi up a common On A creed embracing only the principal article of natural religion never called ailed Into question even Iven by heathen nations nation w was found to too much to be bel so l sated ted by III who to be good Protestant Christians With tire the ot of In this the countries the author re reten 9 ten w presume to tb the ten tendency deny dency orl te by ON t vir and which b hu many open toll In 1111 this country Mr tr point to the influence of and upon the Protestant lie II quotes by way ay or of tb this editorial front tl the New York Sun Many ot of tIe the old aid familIes nr ii Holton are aN now flOW attendants upon churches Durell and may mar sometimes be seen join joining ing lit In memorial exercises and from the same Ime Ih the harm barriers between the branches of at are rf being broken down but It L not the hammer with which hleb th the work ot of destruction is II I done rather agreement Mat In unbelief In lItt than thanIn In belief 1 It is III to tb the to 10 1 tb these facts lend Protestant lam Im In drifting awa away from IU au authority In matters matte ot of faith antI and practice has hall been n an n aid Id to We e mI mInot may not IdOl admit It that itself It I Iskin skin akIn to disbelIef but It cannot be de denied nied that It hu has placed Itself on the tho thom earn m level with It They are standing on th Ihl Mme came platform liS as to authority hr judgment Is II FIt ani Renan have as muth to bI be Beard as AI Luthr I there ran can h lie no 00 escape GIe horn om this conS con I IcI cI elusion UI lon It ho take luk such I la In branding II II 2 In Mel and In might t read rd the article III the Ite He |
