| Show DIFFERENT VIEW POINTS C Catholic Print and ond Unitarian Do Not ot Seo eo Eye Eyo to Ey Eye n Rev fles Frank Fay HY of ot the Ia an n church p preached ched morn morning In ir iron o on n Forest Forent Meditations when n h he saW old oldIn In part The editor of nf a I certain Catholic lIthol p pa paper p per er linda 1 In the titles it Jt t hi his series of nt a after fter vacation sermons an Indication of ot t the he general decadence of the Protestant p pulpit He lie seems seem to think J gospel P reaching l is III being to a I In ng g after atter topics and anel he n as ne asserts s urt erts that tha t Th The people who ho Are thirst t tIn to In ng g after Christian doctrine will find Ond th lie e Protestant pulpit a fountain gone gOM d dry ry Our Catholic friend h lion Ima a R perfect ri right rheM to hi liU opinion but buL he ought to r realize that he Is II speaking from iL i t tullar p pe peculiar c culiar ullar point of ot view What teems seems to h him im a sign flun of decadence appears ppe to 10 me Ine in an a n Indica Indication linn of a new lire life stirring H Happily or at least leant M so I think the n note nott otea of it II broader roe gospel pel are arn being leing s sounded front from the Protestant pulpit I from rom the Catholic pulpit little I U In heard li liC Is ever eer heard The 1111 of C Catholicism Joe doe loea not lie In III the thc preach preaching in inis IllS ing g ability of or IU Its priests tl lu Its greatness In is that of or nn an Institution n cm machine an mi O organism The fhe church as an Institution li tion on so 10 0 dominates It Its friends that their l Individuality I Is a sacrificed Pro Iro Protestantism t Mil has ever fIr had hati preachers m men n w who ho were en makers an and 1 of ot their V seats It tt Is in not true that this influx of ot new s subjects In the pulpit I Is ii 1 a amere mere ncr catering to a n desire for tOI novelty In Inthe Inthe t the he pen It U Is II a sign of nf the dawning r recognition that the got gospel pel of ot the Al AI Almighty m mI mighty h hat has an Infinite number of I thank heaven that there has been heen a n r reaction the old style tyl of doe doc t rinal prea preaching with all Its I narrow 0 Ill tits 15 and bigotry A As for Ih these thee sermons lermon I have hae no apology on Recount account of tit the un unscriptural s scriptural character of f the themes theme Th The E Eible B Bible ible contain only a small part of or the E g gospel ospel of Or the Infinite flod To under tinder s tand stand aright the gospel th that t Is III in the Bible Dible on one must have some om sympathetic c comprehension of ot large things thing of ot nature a and the deep etol thin things of ot human 11 life To suggest some of ot tile the inspirations i that bid lire are in to be found faunl In the phenomena o of ot f nature nil all about UK us hl have hav been the theO O Object ieN ur these thul It IK is tb the ROD eon pel the tho gospel of the Cod that liven lles e and nd moves move li h Hla creation The lessons o of tit f the ten sea all of ot the del desert rt the themO mO mood d of th the I and InspIrations o of or f the tho forest ire are all manifestations of t the he If gospel of ot the living God Our hu tnt human man alan liven live weak week limited antI and Question In ing I ng need nud the succoring strength of nr this thin part port of or the Iol gospel el of ot the Infinite quite 5 aa 5 much A as a that part which I Is written h In i the 11 par pails of ot sacred ored volumes volume coming to us UI with the prestige of ot old oPt custom and churchly authority |
