Deseret Evening News | 1903-12-26 | Page 4 | On Religious Topics

OS ON TOPICS Springfield Republican Methodist voices are being belnA raised against the tho heresy hunt which has hOIl been started lit III that denomination Rev Dib Ion Bronson said In St SI Marks church churchIn In Brookline Sunday Our church l is largo large enough to hold men with diver of at opinions and Interpretations We are oro called to evangelize the nation and not to quarrel among ourselves When we condemn the tho bigotry of at 1300 1000 years ago we must lake heed wo we fall not nol Into the same ditch And again lIln Hev William II H Butler In th thI the I East ast Weymouth church A heresy trial Is flatly Opposed lI to the tho whole gen goi lUll lus or of Methodism hero were nanny many utterances along the sane uuno line IIno In pul pUI pulpits pits outside ot of that denomination which need not bo be referred to It Is nil all a good advertisement for tor the tho hero herosy sy By and Ind something ot of a II trial perhaps to fret Prot of Boston Doston that Is all CIty World Prot Prof Bourne one or of the teach teachers rs of Boston Doston university Is charged with lucre hero herosy lucresy sy by some Iome ot of the ministers of at hIs church and n a great fuss Is being made about It It is III safe to how hoty however ever there thero will be no Public heresy trial such Klch nR as the tho country was treated to a 0 tow fow years ea ago The Tho day tM for such things is 18 past heresy Heres hunting nowa nowadays nowadays days Is u 11 dangerous sport Heresy trials are oro unprofitable In every way The standard known os as orthodoxy III 15 constantly changing All As some somo one has said the modern tle definition le 18 this Orthodoxy Is my doxy heterodoxy Is your doxy The hearIng may declare the tho a 0 heretic but there thero will he be many win who will any the tho verdict is III wrong Is not determined b by these trials take sides They become bocono These prosecute Those defend And there you ou are Christian World and Evangelist The Tho tendency ney ot of science today Is pro pronouncedly towards Ii a teleologIcal view which sees the necessity for tor a 0 Intelligence working to a definite end adequately to account for tor cosmic con conditions It Is this which passed Mr Spencers ken and which wan WAH upon Mr Darwin as 1111 suggested In the last work which he gave to the tho world when whon the pen tell jell his hum hand for forever ever One stepp further by Iy Mr Spencer would have hn Insured him that place which he has hns missed but which the tho outlook now Is will ho be taken by lat Int Inter later er philosophers The Tho work of at assailing Final Causes and thus thue ruling tine the Cro Cre Creator cuter ator out ot Of Ills universe has hns about ceased Instead a 0 First Great Orent Cause has hils become a 1 probability The absolute necessity tor n a genre gence In accounting for tor the existing ar 01 artier tier Is the next step stepi and the tho worlds philosophers who would have havo Ii a hearing will bt bo obliged to take It And such la Is the ot of dental then probability then Acceptance