| Show KNOWLEDGE FROM TESTIMONY The rite Portland oregonian expresses the Ih view w Hint the Ihl 1 CHI herll IH lii entirely outside 00 tell e lie HIP I pale PC ho of or human ho 0 knowledge knot I ed ge Man ii our nUl U I contemporary CIOtI en 1111 Iora iy 11 claims titi hll hits can ua 0 havo opinions on that subject hut but no fade facts aro ar within his hili reach Tho The occasion o for Cor till little dissertation tion In III given 11 A correspondent of or the th Oregonian sent the paper toe for publication linn tion a n lung long disquisition on Oil that subject ol which wes was 11 declined with lIlt the thin following remarks We W might say city Mil further that the ti 11 title tithe tIe the of ot the piece The Facts About the seems to us UR u misleading Opinions n About hout bou I the I he Godhead Clod hi I would perhaps be hi b better for Cor the tue doctrine of the Is Itself an nn opinion easily traceable through its development tI to In Its lUt historical origin In lii the welter of or human opinion In hilt I Persian jer and it n ii Indian I speculation i tion We Wo think It In Is I tint not too much to way Ia ay that thit there Is no notion as 11 to 10 the nod foil head lita ii which w t hi cit cull can be he set HI down among a lie tho I es esThe The Th notion that nothing ran rail be bl b known for rM certain about that which to O the tile spiritual world oihI Is III en rn entertained by hI l many but It II Is III the tho out outcome come of ot Illogical reasoning It takes for fOI granted liln III Ill that thai no one olle know knous uny thing for certain except what bo ho has baa observed ob himself If And the human nol hal anti and the world be he the veil veli generally cannot be he seen Cecil by br the tho physical eye Ci It Il con eludes that thAI man can know kno nothing for certain of ot that of oC existence teno Hut Bitt B I such nn 1111 argument lIt loll does not lint con Coil consider sider Ider thet testimony Is III a fur IIII more abundant source of or knowledge than personal p r onal observation It If a it mans mails stock of or knowledge were limited to tl that thal which he lie IOU con gather from his hIli own ob all observations observations It would In mo most t cu cases be hi very er ery meager r History would Id practically not exist Ixl t hut But he lie h accepts tech testimony te ll ninny mony mon as nit an In ii ii e i I authentic it hi t until Ic source eon ree of or knowledge provided the th witnesses are arc trustworthy Why Vii not lIot accept the Ih testimony of true witnesses 1111 loci Clod the tho I Father Futher Why Wh hy exclude that testimony tl as Gut B mora mere speculation According to 10 test testimony tf t fod God has 1111 from fronI the very er nr t with man and manic made Himself III el known Sometimes Hi lic It has linic confirmed Ills His messages by 11 physical ph kal miracles by II spiritual muir ns nc I by b I the dl nf ot future o events or the revelation of oC facts acts of the unseen world Above Ahoe oil He lie hail hns re ye rt Himself through tilt Son Sni Ills His person words and attil work And till of 01 these the revelations tho the Scriptures contain n a partial record In these latter days 8 He lie lies has further Himself to 10 Ills His servants tIm the Prophets In fact Cart there thero Is l a cloud of at witnesses whose who a testimony cannot rationally be Ig hg Ignored II nored Let Iet u us III not shift ground The Ih iu lion tion of 01 theology theolog Is III not nol In the first place whether facts pertaining to the Godhead nr can call be made known to man manI I It lC God exists He lie certainly c can corn com communicate with Ills children and ami If it Ho lie HoIt lieis Is It good lie He certainly has ha not left lett them III In Ignorance rho The question que smut mid the tite only 01 question of cit Importance is u illS as to the of ot the various witnesses who testify to 10 their mission minion as us n divine messengers It rt In is not denied that many mun false c notions concerning God hod exist and have been handed down through the ages Hut flut such luch notions are arc lue due either to the misunderstanding of at tho 1110 testimony of or the tho true witnesses or a 11 rejection of or their words and tho thu substitution of ot speculation for Cor authentic revelations True clod lod Is l not knowable to human him n Unite lb t I te mind In I ii till ull ni Ii His I I is In Infinite finite perfections but to this the extent that lie He has been pleased plen ed to 10 reveal Him self Ho lb can be bo known That Is h tim the contention of ot faith against agnostic Urn ifill |
