| Show JO On FrIda June Junt It 12 the city ot of North orth ampton M will h have a In commemoration of one OM ot of this coin tl moot moet potent preachers and theolo lo glans ciani Jonathan The celebration tion II looked upon In the ture ot Of an atonement for tor ago wu ea from the h he served a as a pastor the council havIng di de dared him to bt un unfit t that poet lion tion It w was at tbt t time terribly hu iu to the devoted preacher A and the event was Willi the ot of the day It h be recalled At this time Ume that Jonathan Joneth though ont one ot of the i great minds ot of bl his day suffered perse cutton cullon because he insisted on In morale among the members ot of the 1 church ills HIs tell teU us that b he brought before the chu church h both In sermon rmon end and In with the church officials the vice which men 11 in ana anc now exists wherever parents art are indifferent to Jn instruction on relatIons and chastity and by so 10 doing had added to who dIsliked him inasmuch as his exposures had Injured the pride ot of some of the leading families no ifo In on regeneratIon as the qualm qUillin for tor membership It spouts m that hll grandfather and predecessor In the pastorate ne Rev Solo Solomon Solomon mon Stoddard had made It ft possIble for tor pr persons ons to be to the orth ampton church who did not profess I holding that th ther WI was no scriptural authority fur tor such ouch If baptized and believing that the Sac Sae Sacrament In Itself hd had spiritual worth whIch might be reckoned upon to make better all communicants could not unction sanction this practice and took a decided stand It In hI his sermon on The Religious Affections And nd lal liter he refused to admIt to the church a member who m made e no prot proton iton on ot of conversion but who claimed the right as a baptized child ot of the chu church h This lid led dismIssal from ther the set vise I and antl so blUr bitter was the oppoSition toO to hIm among hI his OWn flock that the of the th decision to to dismiss hIm was os carried b by a vote ote of to O e And 00 yet et hI he sae admitted to be as al mar mor morally ally pure fure at as he wu exceptionally sue In the ministry Th Tue theology ot of Jonathan is III not thought much or of In pur ur time It Itla Itis la is held to degrade ran and make ot of hint him a alive llave a child of necessIty It Its thought wan the supreme sovereignty of God aeda pie not too wen well at pros cut ent It 18 I notIceable that modern thought has bas a tendency towards toward lb be ex cx extreme CalvInism that sees In human beings merely puppets without admit admitting ting their r responsibility before the Su So Supreme preme Judge The tendency Is to reo re guru garo mn man rather as AI an automaton to the mechanism of whIch the pest for tor countless generations has haa contributed It wheels h and strings and whatever II needed to produce thought and mont ment and action The Th worM world I Is swing mi Ing like a pendulum from 0 on extremity to the other The problem la Is to find how hots responsibility Is III compatible with the of heredity slid and envIron mint That they are coexistent J is dent but how howIt howIt It may be wen wall to remember at t this time that the persecutIon accorded b by bythe the world to man many of its III moot mOlt distin distinguished gul bed men and women often otten Is II generations Those ThOle who are re tar shead It are generally ml understood Their work Is II appreciated only when has hal brought the rest ot of mankind up to where they Wire Then their work is Ie Hen In Itt Its true tNt light Ue II who I willing to 0 walt wait long enough can always rest assured that he will willMe see Me truth vindIcated and ana full justice done to all |
