Show IB IS An editorial In a 0 publication called the Drown look Hook while arguing that the world worM Is growing eroding gro better brUer regrets grels r tho thod decline d of at the church It II affirms that the ho Into lum of or enlightenment Is greater hUt but fears that the pow powerful I erful factor of the church govern hun hundred hundred dred tired years ago oro has la been supplanted by reason That men inca no longer fear teor or Satan Batan or tho the decrees of or the tho church or threats ot of eternal punishment It declares that with the spread of his history history history tory and science has hns como coma the tho know knowledge ledge that there thero Is 19 no such place us as tiSHell asHell Hell that Satan Is a n fairytale Inch Indi Individual vidual that the church being com coin composed composed posed of at men Is fallible like men nen and that God Clod Is a n being of or Love Loc not of Fear rear It Il Is claimed further that tho the I world orld has hns learned that salvation comes not ant through the church but through a amans amans I mans own efforts to 10 create creato character The I hie he writer expresses his own position In these words I 1 like best the tho religion ion that a 1 man creates for tor himself to tofit tit lIt his time lino and place and not the or organized creeds creel s and systems of tho ho rast There Is In those thoRe opinions an tin admix admixture ture turo of ot truth and arid error The facts set Bet forth mo are In a n large luge measure correct The Tho conclusions drawn are not warranted by their recognition It Is Ic true that the world hug hils graw row has not kept pace with and amI with the progress ou of ot the tM human mind That ThatIs Is b l because the forms of at religion aru RIU virtually dead That which It Is without vitality can cnn make mako no progress This fact tact however does docs not preclude the idea that true Irue religion Is h n a 1 thing of or life and force and arni on consequently of ot growth and development Not that list n a truth changes changeR with age ae or circumstance hut but rather that It may be added upon by bythe bythe I Ithe the manifestation of or other oilier truths and und of ot greater grealer light shed upon the truths truth of or old It IL Is a 1 good thing no doubt that the th element of or fear which was to so O prominent neat nent In the theology theolo of at the past has hns b bell hee en to a large extent eliminated from th the teachings tf of the present And yet et It II ItIs IIII iti Is II i a necessary al feature of or till nil law hew both holh human and divine The law Is II made for lor the The Tics fear of Its must mum necessarily form tOrm to tt some lome extent a n deterrent against crime such and sin If It there Is II I to I be a R reward for forth forthe th tM the righteous there therl must also be pun for tor the wilfully wicked nicked If It wo we 0 th these e from religion we e must alao shut out God Clod The Supreme Hul Ruler Huler r and Creator of ot th the r e tins has the right U t command ob to Hit 1111 iii d which must mut mui surely he to rounded founded on the tho eternal principles of or Justice and m mere rc and ind therefore there must be br Inevitable confluences both hoth of o obedience and nth or ot disobedience F Fear r times then mutt must Into the of ot tru religion The Th highest COh of obedience to 10 law Is I with It It ItIs ItIs itIs Is right without any anticipation of or either benefit to lie he rec i 11 l by 1111 Ing to tolt It Or Ir n Im upon lI n re reo bullion billion against It Hut iut mank ml In f genorah noral hv have not reached that stage In Inhuman Inhuman inhuman human and therefore the doc doe Irine lit itt reward Md kud 1111 must tiMe have fore and am 1 In order to brine about the id desired Every Eve Individual la Is I to I b be d f u t hla hll Man ian Is a free III nl to the tho cx lX t teat nt that IK Ipe ran n know I 1 wrong and Ret net In accordance with hit hll hi volition In rotation to th lh Thenton the tte doctrine of at retribution It is I rational and mu must terra form a part pirt of oC th the f The Tb literal ot of t the th n has ft very viry r much Ib of ot a Q torching or r tearing earing upon the th majority of ot poo peo pool l ls l but that does do 40 not end and hould should not brief In a condition and a 1 or condItions condition and anti place if r f adequate for the trans r wilt will undoubtedly At fit t ime mt Unit time claim lie Its II own and alien Rhen It l is 18 sati d merv with will alo also aloman InaM man l its Ita It rights Hell 1111 thin than In Its It ruo e be out oT n r rIgl rp Igl n as a a myth n nr ncr r ron con Satan as asle Ac le eitt of oC H tice 1110 i 1111 ip ipe r re jj e truthfully d 4 rima d a II S bough the leai tn ke Itu hr r of th l 1 t i 1 ilone lone Into terrible extremes extreme In the fro ji I of thair own notions ri lo os s con can i r and to throw entirely lY belief heller In the tho truth of or revealed rOll lon would be bo going tp p extreme quIte as ns evil ovll as ns theirs A mans own efforts to create char charnote note actor tire arc u e no II doubt absolutely oun ouen tint to hIs IH preparation for the tiu exalted state elate will wili lit him to the society and glory of ot his hili Creator and KInI Hut In order to l whAt In It Indo do dc cr In Inthe the formation or dov of oC if that lint c he la divine divino direr direction tion Ion and that comes the tho th Church established by icy divine divino lion The churches of or mon men are ar fallible of at course because th thY IhY y are arc human hum hill hi nut Hut the he Church o or God Clod IB Is I an ati o oHis of Ills His own O eStablishment Its It principles I are arc eternal eh truth they thoy came crune from Him ilium Its Ita It aru fleece I sary and tind Its apil spirit lead head up o 0 Him Ilium and they the bo be Ignored by any ny one on who hio truly desires s spiritual growth and amid perfection of oC character cler Wo Vo do 10 not wonder that lint thoughtful met men repudiate the Ihl numerous conflict conflictIng cv lag InS religious organizations which pro tend to bu Ill tho Church of clr cf Christ nut Hut When hen they talk of or r for tor S they show their thell luck lack of ot un understanding der of or what real rett religion Is It If each ench man makes a C religion re to suit him himself himself self that lint will only on multiply tha thu th con which prevail and con confusion fusion ruslon worse confounded call founded It Is l like Ilko the notion that man makes a u God lad tp II suit It Is tho the wrong Wa about OO creates titan man Got Jod Jo 1 rv ilu lila ro roto to mann man It In Is du fin I to compro I hell y to tp bo ho b obeyed Every E ry else timid that Is III railed religion Is II of ot origin and really of lit the tho name t tWe We e aro ro happy haul In the knowledge that has His Hl Church In tin time ell t liRa ago and line has tl principles of ti truth which may be relied upon ulon as os Infallible aho the means menns by which they may mn bo ho promulgated ami amid added to I its 45 times und and circumstances re require They arc ure adapted to tho the age fn In which we wo live with nil nit Its ItA Improvements In science In lit art arl In literature and Intel advancement It ft casts aside the tha le theology of If the tho Iho and the i errors and an notIons that have grown up In perverted minds concerning conc Him Ills His will awl anti Ills ways There Is In It suf liberty of or thought and action to satisfy every reasonable soul oui and yet ct It proscribes pres regulations for human bunion conduct which ate are necessary for tho the full development of ot man Into the per perfection of ot o the th Eternal mernal from whom ho sprang sprang It ills Itis Is despised by Iy the tho multi multitude multitud tude tony today toda but It will yet command the respect the time admiration nail the tha obedience of ot the tho host best people of ot all the thu nations on the face of or tho the earth |