| Show oY ON S TOPICS Do ton Herald The Tho Booths ot of the Iho Salvation Array Army breve not woe n a favorable opinion by their conduct In respect of at the funeral or funerals ot of Mrs Irs Gell Gea Booth gave orders from London It Is said that Booth between whom and his sister I liter there was n very er tender lender affection before the brother anti his hili wife seceded from the Salvation Army and established the Volunteers ot of should not be permitted to attend nn public cervices or to 10 e sisters remains privately Gen Hooth It is 18 known has cast enst ort oft his son wholly for tor his difference of at conscience regard lag Ing his duty and his disobedience of orders lint It night ho bo thought that thai he would he be allowed to 10 pay nn an tiona ta tribute ot of respect to his sister Histel litter after her death although they had not met since Booth was cashiered ate as nn 1111 of at the tho Salvation Army The Tho fathers treat treatment ment ot of the tho son Mon could nut have been more disdainful If the latter find committed the sin against the Iho Holy Ghost hosl J I The Watchman People today are uro very cry generally ed truth Is to servo serve lS as the tho center and ot of a 11 revival of religion nt at iho beginning of at this cen Many answers are being given to 10 that question Dr Josiah Strong thInks that we are arc to 10 find the especial e pecla truth for tor our VIII age In the rediscovery of at atthe the O of GOI I Dr r John Wilt Witt Scott SOli the a little and hits hill spoken the of at preaching social righteousness rho fhe with such statements III s that they fluke all nn effect ot of Christian truth primary What we want Is the Iho truth that produces such effects For ourselves wo we do not believe that there Is any mystery about the Iho ov truth this age uge needs neel and to which it II will respond as no truth le Is lethe the character and claims of at Jesus Christ What hal we need Is III a new nil on and exposition ot of the lit of Jesus Christ and ond of at Ih the ot of othie the hie claim to the tho mastership or of the Iho human hu man Paul Mul Once his supernal greatness is III vindicated owl hi his claim acknowledged edged everything else elM follows The Tho Churchman The Iho modern apologist realizes that faith cannot he be kept kepL out of at relation with the Ihl acquisitions ot of modern thought A genuine Christian temper will be with nothing less than Ihan thann n 1 straightforward dealing with 1111 for 1 a policy of at subterfuge III fatal in III Its results More than that it Il Is to 10 Over every ideal which the teaching of Christ justifies A fire faith In the essential harmony ot of all ull aspects of at truth Is A corollary of the creed ot of the Iho church and forms the basis ot of n a far ar worthier ins well as n fur stronger type of at apologetic Lure The Tho connecting link between the past and the present is found In the th doctrine ot of the incarnation III hr the unique revelation ot of God In Jesus Christ t This Thill primal tact fact remains b by scientific criticism Its sill Is being thrown grander relief relict by Its association with n a more mom enlightened view ot of mans own Place pineo In Iii history and the causes which have contributed to 10 his progress The Outlook we need In oUr schools whether private or public Is not catechism but religion not nol definitions but life not nol a teaching ot of religion for tor half nil an hour slang with writing w g and nud ar Ith tactic not a fourth It added to three Its but the tho spirit of at good goodwill will and I In the teachers and anda 1 a tree free play for the of this lite ot of self control and t good will nUll reverence that It may be imparted hy by them to 10 tile thc pupils wader under their info enre And ot of this spirit neither Roman Catholic nor Protestant tant neither Chris Christian tian nor Jew has n a monopolY rho public school cannot tench theology but theology Is not important to 10 toad good citi I It cannot bo bJ taught Rut lit cnn can se select eel for tor its lis teachers met men and wo women women men who whose e spirit la Is that ot of sobriety ur or temperance of at righteousness or good willi of oC godliness or reverence and lu In Inso so doing It can enn d do ns as much a as par parish Ish school perhaps more to Impart n II like hike spirit to its Ito pupils the In Interior l Charles Darwin being naked In his latter days whether science the Iho faith in III the tho being or of God replied that science presented both for tor anti against It and that the deciding vote had to be given en by end each Individual according to 10 his hili personal up Neither the Iho being ot of God nor the ln inspiration of at cnn can ho proven ns as one proves n problem In geometry Moral ratiocination starts not with the axioms but bul with hates latell not with premises which It Is possible to 10 deny but with assumptions which men of oC exemplary hire lIro are aro bound to 10 accept What It is Id Impo Impossible to 10 provo prove to a scoundrel It Is to prove to n saint The normal soul line its perceptions ns as truly ns as the nor normil milt mil bod body |
