Show capitulating CAPITULA TING TO infidelity on jan june 2 alli I 1 lenry ward Ilee flier ili en ellett a 1 sea oil in abid occurs this sent you inest make inae god aicher ili bicad oat I 1 or cr nobler for or you I 1 fan 11 atoo it a god ell liy fly nivy any argument fir r fifty any 10 logical trallis llis of on this licin ark the washington it of aim id says bays that hint nino persons out of every tell leu would attribute it to dob blob alir sol full anil certainly it would seem a more appropriate utterance for the chiro pion infidel than fr for the famous christian minister mini iter to holva it is i credited you can call incur prove nod agod i 0 the llie chiste existence dee of a god by tiny arguments arthe arllie or illy any logical truths 11 ifcic isn of the bel helpless pless ness of the elie church to meet tile the sceptical IneLl physics of this unbelieving act i it is in ilia admission that ill hi logical argument tile 1 palm alla is ii always won iron by the infidel anti and it means that fill all volio TO retain a faith in the god of modern christendom must belleve believe in ill a acing whose axis tence even cannot be pro oil en b by Y any arguments or lo 10 logical cical tnt lis I 1 and ami what aliat liat is 11 worse orse for tile the church is this confession made by beecher il ij tile the truth and VM nal by the truth it is is as he be admits quite impossible to prove the existence of the god coll of modern cliris chris by any truths in nature or any arguments that hint c can in be deduced the wity deity n ali hit nh lt beech or cr anil and the modern christian world moral is it a being without boil body I 1 parts or passions 11 under the searching liing 1 scrutiny of skepticism this being 11 lias s melted into a 1113 3 tit of ira impossible existence infidelity has pron ou to all N liose bose faith is led or supported by lenson flint such it a boil being in the cry nature batur of Ill things VI liener did c can to dornill exist tile the church pon powerless erless to defend its teachings or rescue its god fienk the annihilation that has resulted from froin an investigation into tile the possibility of ilis hh existence assumes an attitude of blind helpless belief anti anil stupid defiance of revion reason and says we wa believe in ili 1 a I god but we ne cannot provo prove his existence fly by any arguments orally or any logical truth in ass assuming this attitude the church lits has one tul advantage vantage it may impunity cast lit I 1 v to US its 5 wrt lur laving having minced itself Iley beyond olid the bound of reason tile the arguments and logie logic of its op opponents its cannot reah reach it the same eun running nino that invented at scicli tell a monstrous ino nitrous god has invented this method of defending vest from tile incessant attacks of upon it its indefensible outposts posts is what that tile the church has longed for tor for ages it lias has found such a rest at last for alio ito can argue orito arito ito against a faith which is admitted to be indefensible by its very adherents becchers acry cry exhortation you must mil it make your god broader hig higher b ij nobler is a confession that the worshipers whom lie he nas long hall had made tile alic god cod they were acre worshiping that lie was deficient in certain important attributes road and that they must repair that deficiency deny in ili other it words the god coll of thorn hora lie ike n nas as speaking was waa an ideal creation a conception of of tile the intellect rather than 1 a I self helf existent eving being a moralists mora lists dream tann the motive rower of the universe univ oil and in the minds illinois of Bee diers hearers tills this conception or dream hall had not been formed lit in proper pi lot refection they must make it broader hi higher glicer nobler As a critic is would say of a painting a statue or 1 poem it is in ill this direction that 1 modern I theology is rapidly drifting the authority of its goil coll over the die actions of men inen is tile authority that must govi ern tile painter the ond and ilic alic poet lit in the production of their creations it if they would make their u borka arks berf perfect et 1 find and taij alii authority is if simply tile the opinion of cultivated and erudite but tit uninspired facto god is being liciag transformed from a creator a It linler tiler a father and a judge into 1110 an u idea a nit an c conception incept llon of a certain standard of the good and ami true future pains and ami penalties pen allies I 1 and the laws and ordinances of the gospel are arc fast disappearing as elements of modern ich ic ligion ion anti and tire arc being superseded by a vin of mere ijo idealism ali iba god coll of tile the church is N clial hat the church chart ill chooses to wale him anti and iu ili the creation or remodeling of its deity it is not required to coil conform form to any principles tit 0 known truths or ria Lural logic for his existence in the first place cannot be proven by either cither I 1 low audi superior is 13 sulli a religion as this to the heathen ILI of ancient egypt greece or rome home |