| Show ON IN I 1115 Worcester Spy Those who ho have never hewer borne horne the time bur but den or the heat of ot lifes day do not hot yet eL 01 fathom the depth of oC Ha its Hut those who have 1100 fainted Cain led In the des ds ort Oct of ot adversity ll cr or sorrow pain lInin or die appointment know with what Joy jO the thought thou ht of ot Gods nods presence and goodness s takes tallos hold ot of the heart henrt that Is troubled saddened It la Is the cleft cicCI In the tho rock to the soul seth It Is like time the shadow of or a n great reat rock In a n weary wear land lands to lu the tho pilgrims who are seeking the city of ot tho the king Prof Irot John De Do Witt Sitt of ot Princeton The Tue reel real of ot the hour In Is be tween unintelligent chance ed 81 force and free freo and Intelligent plan planas ns as the constitutive principle of the uni universe verse verce ene Chance force plan which of these words Intimates the character and describes the tho activity of God This Is the time burning question of or the day da In the ml t of ot this his tremendous light fight ht shall we 1 who ho are arft all for tor the free anti and Intelligent plan of ot the tIm living cad holy hol God waste our time anti and spend our force Corce In lighting fighting I over Its corollaries Let us wait until we have won on the common battle and see eye ere to eye ee once more New IW York Outlook Dr Gordon In his notable discussion of ot modern religious conditions In The Time TheP New P Epoch for tor Faith has hils brought omit nut very 1 strikingly the significance of ot what may mK be lie call called the modern humanistic the movement which tends more moors ore nd more to discover what Is dl iii 11 vine In men man by b It discerning his lug to time the Infinite and the kinship between his nature and the time nature of or lied lad Without the key of oC mans mind nature Is III Incomprehensible and nil all at lit tempt to 10 formulate a n natural theology theolog by b studying nature apart from man are doomed to failure from the beginning In like manner Anti and lint following n a kin dred instinct men are turning more and more from nil all attempts to state In itt terms lemma of oC abstract truth and formal log IOK logIc Ic a philosophy of ot Christianity to the person tho time spirit antI and time the life of ot Its founder discerning that what he camo caine Into the time world to do 10 was not primarily to disclose a system of oC religion a body bod bodor of or doctrine but Jut to bring life lite and amid Im Int Immortality ln mortality to light What men maca tire are seek seel seekIng lag Ing In today toda with passionate Insistence ts III not additions to 10 their knowledge but tho the dc deepening and time tho widening of at tho the sense of OC life that t immortal vitality In which all great reAt things have huo their roots and by II the time aid lId of which all great reat achievements artY made New York iok ork Independent When people say that we must take certain beliefs on faith raith what shat do tie they mean If I they the mean anything reason reasonable reasonable able they moan that for tor some Borno timings things we le have hn Gods word sword ord amid that is final and complete authority This Is III quito truo true but bUI we Ie take Gods word lord on faith as II authority just jum In the time lame came way that we do any amy al one word worth We e havo ho never Been seen the tho Antarctic Continent Wo We accept accent Its existence on the authority of ot Commodore and Capt Hoss First we ve get got sufficient evidence of ot tho time actual existence exl tence of Wilkes WilkeR and Ross naBS next that they the were svere credible persons i next that they the have reported that they went sweat en to tho the Antarctic Continent and amid I actually saw it So we must got et cleat clent cl nt evidence that there thore Is a II God that he hug h liar hay ha made mode these thesa the n certain statements In n a n revelation to man nun If It there themo Is no evidence to satisfy us that such a reve revelation lation of at religious rel oue truth from mm his exl t then we se must faUst not nOl believe bellve In the tho pretend pretended ed etl revolution Our point If is that religious louts ious belief bellet differs as to its evidence from Crom no other belief Believing of ot whatever sort soft on whatever subject de lie ponds on good gool Botti reason Here we are all nil rationalists To claim or demand a II different nature for religious belief from froman ear any an other sort sarI of belief heller Is to endanger religion by J tucking It unreasonable anti therefore contemptible |
