Show Tm GOD The Worcester Spy has ha a writer on religious topIcs topIc Mr r I Trank L Phalen who furnishes that paper weekly eon oon to It its editorial columns In InI j jL L I recent mu that writer In an article on Tb Fbi Ineffable Name Nam took to say oy that the name of God stands standa today for a very lIT conception ot of Deity It from hat which the pa on marcIa Abraham or the hi lawgiver Mo Mosea to sea The e coming from an or orthodox thodos pen strike us IS as ae ec exceedingly l because the s Saints tnt have kive at various Irion times stig by orthodoxy us 81 even for that tha t the modern mo ern of God is I at with the doctrine Mr Ial n takes the view IV that the hebrew Jehovah was 1111 n a manlike God who came down don from the local an anti nearby heaven to visit lilt hI his favo or to see h hw w things t on but that this view ot of Out God lence and the o of history h hare run ren dred dered lie He YI The old sad the old earth with the old Ideas leSKI ot of gods go and demons hare bay passed sway In time and space pace governed b an l 1 Spirit Tb change Lr Ir Thau nl to tl think II I dUe to the teaching of and here is I Where the th n comes In Our lArd not governed by it a most mOlt sublime faith alth althIn In the God of anti Ja JaC Jacob C cob b II lie vAs the of that Delt Deity The Tho God or of the New ew It is no other than than the tho Cod ot of the Old the Maker Inker of th hoo heavens enl ens anti and th the earth our Father and our frIend That the modern conc or of I Deity DettY Is II different from rpm that Abra o t tj 17 j haUl hans and Moses I is true but It h is II not true trul that tilt the change I is duo dUI to the I 1 iII i ur J 1111 Ilk 1 t r fill j t 1 b t Ii 1 lI II I nut to truce irate the tho origin of if this n If f md Hod o Of It t I hr he t wont I so 0 proud It can be lUr pursued II b t th i it 1 I t r In t s hi M In InI I IJ I the he o 1 C anti th Ihl Ideas or of human anti and grace Irace that are In the revolting doctrine II At Infant AugustIne u was livIng at 1 a time when hen Neol an I HI made felt In fl the wend or of thought and ond under these hi his I often onn shapes To TI hIm the three Persons inthe In the famous Athan lan creed became three t terms rm In which the one aile Clod Is 10 In Ills Hie relation to La men lIe II held that each entOn I ii the Trinity and that the Trinity three are essentially on And this con oan still baa hu orthodox sanction Since AU definition n no flO nw light lIht hat has been lleen thrown upon otic picture ot of the Dett by its Iii do de voters Students ot of theology generally console themselves with the thought that its Ita La lilt its chief I It I Is the source of co doctrine and general contusion The rhe absurdity of the entire position II 13 per pal lisps bop best seen cen itt III the valti ahl attempt at t escape from the by God 10 1 as an Ab Absolute Spirit For lor this It Spirit Is a personality is II a lion ot of tarsus means with without without out limitation while personality olear J I involves earns Orne limitation Nothing can more moNt clearly illustrate the help of orthodox theology than such efforts at what at other times tims It proclaims to bo be incomprehensible and consequently AntI this Is Iff the miserable caricature of God Mr Ir holds up for tor nd ad admiration as so much superIor to the Hebrew Jehovah the God of Abra Abraham Abraham ham and of Moses ThIs is the gift elft to mankInd from science anti the revel revelation tion ot of history as II a substitute for tor the Lord Lorti God of old It If over ever In the tho history of man there was WIlS need for tor the pro ot of the message of the angel Worship HIm lUrn that made heaven and earth carth and the sea It 11 Is In our time Th Tb God of creation Is the God of the tho Patriarchs and the Inspired lawgiver ot of Israel the tho God of the Prophets and of at Jesus the God who lives and rules for ever eer and ever u |