| Show lbs I ISome Some time ngo ago a 1 rite rile was lIS performed In m Chicago which Iii Is i said hi to 10 bo be tho 1111 of Its Is kind In Unit that city It was vas the to humanity of ot a n two earod child chIlli according to thu the Ideas of at the tho to whom that hut ceremony IB la the t sacrament n r kind of substitute for Cor baptism The flie rite Is l thus thui described Mr Ir read the lie presentation hymn composed by Judge Jud Lu of London addressed a l brief piny or to lo Humanity and pronounced a 0 discount on the Ih presentation of ot Infants Both and discourse 1 Isle inti always take the form of DC high it ic solve II by hy effort after com comil communion munion with HIP thi achIest spirits among Among time the dead ni nl a III In George GeorKe Oh Ohm may Ina I Join the tile choir Invisible After th the lr rents nta and had bath mails made th lr formal they sl signed l ne ned l a It r register jl which will wilt be di sl at the time head of ot the tie In Iii I Tho The are the tite disciples of or the thc French philosopher Comte who ho tiled In The lbs name Is 19 derived from hit his fundamental doctrine th thiat t nil all human knowledge passes through three different nt eta the theological th the metaphysical and th po the lait lut mentioned being tho th in the as al B scala alo Th Tb no attributes l i to 10 tho Iho will of the there re tor tier nor don he ito seek Meek e k for Cur c ease u t w weli ll lI lint there here Is that lint human Intellect for he lie Is l content with analyzing or what he pcr fler er this being belli within the proper t of ot reason As s a applied to hu hUe human hUeman man society t refuses refuse to see ift In the guiding hand of ot led God and has no n rt reverence rence for Sovereignty lIt U nn an tho ho will wll of oC th the people It Il merely tak takes of th relations its I tween lI m man n amid ami man hoping to bout about regeneration on the haste bull of what If is known or what can n I be positively I known about thee th rotations relations At t lilt thought there would seem m to tob tobe tobe b be but little room for rot religion In such sucha a system lint hut positivism po I alms alias a as It Is explained by ono one of cit lu Ita it ox ex exponent In the North American merian He Its HeIe view Ie for tor March at transferring religion from Crom rota a to a scientific beats batti h ta from Crom a It to a human creed to subordinate both national and International to 10 mar mor morality lilt anil and religion In III to I this P seeks to make Ake I is IU its own wn conception oon ol of ate every oer thought anil renil action n it i Is III cent can M as such Hitch have lve ha e nothing to do ilo with withold old olti age female suffrage opera OllEra comedy and anel u a 1 thousand other human humanA affair A I Ill religion must be 00 Po a to ta this isle revelation as ne It does not oot recognize the of aC ment from train a higher Source nun on nn truth and en 1101 0 or light rIg Ii t and a iid ur ss mug on tn life I I fi it liti Im 1111 on conduct ty t It regards ob hail on 01 these thele anti and mib an alii for Cor human anil believes belleva In regeneration rO an 1111 u n IQ UIt of o It thu moral force foroe titus thus obtained with wilh without out divine interference There Is II this truth In imi positivism m that It Is absolutely necessary that n re should hou permeate every hUl action thought and arid emotion but hilt It If there Is no imO other religion than that which human perception reasoning rea mig cnn can supply Its force Coree will soon soomi b II be spout nt No N engine has yet been Invented Unit that wl cnn call run rumi by Its It own motion No plant oun omi grow grol If It cut off fl horn from its ita It no sourCe urea of ot front from without no matter lion hints I vigorous It Is II What would l be b the tho alp of or time tho earth woVe st the ee It denied the lie light lIht and tho the heat hea t of ot the tho sun lUll and left Jell to III development by IJ 1 Its own Internal fire The child cannot much uch In knowledge if It denied Instruction by those who havo hare through life before It Iti neither can ran mankind with without out tho tue guidance of oC God loti 00 1 Without di divine dIvine divine vine Instruction there could have hat been heen no to true truo religion In iii tile the world j nor cart can truth be he preserved long without con continued tinned 1 divine revelation flue Is In n a 1 scientific fact tact It Is 18 based ell on tho the ex ox ex orl nce of at all nil ages alles Tho more mom the existing exl anti and philosophic systems of at the world mire 1110 studied till tho mart more apparent It become J that thul none of oC them theta can bo lie In to tho the Gospel of ot If Jesus Christ That alone alon accounts for all nil tho the phenomena of ot the visible and Invisible world worl l that alone supplier a remedy for nil ull human Ills and outlines the time only sure Hurt road roan to happiness horn 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