| Show OLD MAUli mw A new departure In the thc statement of or t has been made by b the time Maple woo Congregational church gf Qt Maiden Muss Musi The fhe old and amid elaborate confession c to which members former formerly ly Iy l y were to subscribe Iu has line been aban abandoned d for Cor time the following I believe In III God the loving losing lather Father of oC o f tho the r race ce ceI I believe In Ia the universal brother brotherhood brotherhood hood of ot man as ns taught by b Jesus Christ ChristI I believe In Jesus Christ as IU the Su SUo Supreme i preme reme p of or divine character as ns ashe tha tho t he moral and amid religious Teacher the time spiritual s Guide and the Redeemer of ot otmen men amen menVIn VIn In uniting with this church I prom pram Isa l ee to giu myself to its service to work for Cor Its anti to walk with all nil Its 1111 members and und with allmen nil all men In i ii a ft 1 spirit of or charity anti and faithful faithfulness faithfulness ness nes The Thc first notable point In tills this Is the tact fact that faith In iii universal brother brotherhood brotherhood hood h Is III between het faith In the tho First and Second Person of ot the Deity The old confessions of ot faith always give Ie our Lord time the next place after utter the Eter Eternal Eternal Eternal nal Father both of ot whom they the declare to be bo of oC the same essence equal In pow power cr er anti and In glory glor Hero here tho the Son Is given givena a rank next to 10 universal brotherhood Another nother notable point Is that the time Sec nn Person of ot the time Deity Delt Is not declared to be God Go of oC Got God but merely the time Supreme of ot divine character r the tho Teacher the time Guide Guille and the thu His divine attributes timid and character are evidently not though the place Is accorded Him among the worlds teach era guides and redeemers r the same annie way la as ns the time first place among prophets Is by hy ans accorded to the tho Arabian prophet and reformer Still another remarkable feature of time the declaration of ot faith Is 18 tho the absence of all reference to tho the Holy Hol Spirit by I ii orthodoxy always regarded as nil the time third Person of oC the tho God A great t change of ot sentiment In regard to the tho orthodox conception of or tho time Deity Delt must have taken place Ilace In certain of ot tho the Christian world We ore are aware that do not claim authority for tor their declarations of o faith They The do not bellef in creeds ls as asa asa asa a bond hond of ot union still such statements statement must mURt be b Intended to 10 convey an nn Idea of ot what Is commonly believed among their members mem Otherwise there would be Le no object whatever In formulating anti and publishing such statements There Is no na doubt that the thought of ot the tho world Is ts slowly undergoing under undergoing going Ii it transformation The Time tendon leaden cy ey Is to recede r code from the old creeds und and standards of o faith many man of or which are arc wholly unintelligible anti and to ta had find ln come orne simpler and ami more moro practical definitions pf O f doctrine There Is quite a II struggle struggle gle gb between the old ninth thu new now In Inthis Inthis Inthis this struggle many are lost to the churches faith falls fails when tho the ancient foundations are arc shaken 1111 a ken It Il seems SOlms to ta us u that what the entire re religious reo world just now needs Is 19 to adopt and to act upon some sonic such declara declaration tion lIan of ot faith as this We Wo believe bellevo all nil that God ao has re me veiled nil all that He lie does doos now reveal anti and we wo believe that Ho lie II will yet tt reveal man great and Important things per vem pertaining to time the Kingdom of ot God Gol GodIt GolIt GodIt It Is Impossible to find a way Out nut of oC nil all error except the tine light of oC revelation It Is III not to progress pro ress mess In right n unless that light be continually with us fot of ot the churches are now flow where they tile were w ages ago In knowledge They use nn ae stationary while Willie In other othur respects the world worM lies has advanced From every ever cel large lorge body boll fractions have ha 0 broken br ken loose be because e rouse cause they the could no longer bear the armour of oC the generations long ago past but felt the irresistible need heed of oC oCIC now IC moire modes of ot thought and methods Out But they too have hMO become stationary mind nd the progressive element hue hay again nellin hurst the time fetters 1 Th rc Is IH no Ito remedy against this lila wit ovil except In the tho con coil guidance of ot God Clod through reve revelation lation him I loin That I alono a can ca mm keim tin till church an n over ael living hiving over liver progressing organ orIn organism ism 1111 of ot fulfilling UH It functions Its It mission In III tho the world The rime question of oC Deity has hn always been one of ot Intense perplexity to the time greatest theologians In time tho first It was wai ns the tIme chief topic of ot controversy In the tine Christian world For Fir Fora Jorn a n long limo It was laR supposed 1 to have been settled by th time thu from a It modern point of ot view absurd nb urd definition of ot time the Creed but the controversy inns has always been h cn more maro or loss Iou III In evidence The he keenest thinkers of or every eory ever ago ngo have hlo re refused refused fused to accept the mathematically Ini possible propositions formulated by some of or the this first church fathers ethical Time The of lit those standards of at faith mo ntO now dawning upon many hommett believers In time the Nazarene lImit they need not lIot take the tho views suggested d by hy the time now new confession quoted above ahoe They Time The ne need d not lIot dethrone the time Ix rd Jesus Christ nor Ignore Dm the Holy 1101 an OK anIs aimis Is IR done thorn there In III I mi this last of ot nil all ii God Cloth hits hns again revealed Himself mind unil taught aught the tIme children of ot men lien HO lam much of at Ills His at attributes attributes tributes and auth glory glor that they have n a perfectly satisfactory basis ls for tor faith In III Him him Nut Not that nil Is revealed Throughout nil nfl eternity there thero will sill be he bemore moro more to ta learn Hut But light ha again been heon given from room tho the eternal Fountain of ot Knowledge and Tho Tue Fa In of oC God Clod i the this relationship of The Tho Almighty to Ills children time the work of oC redemption ull that has hall again been do de declared In the time Gospel that knowledge has hns been given hen It Is 15 plain enough to tobe tobe tobe be understood by b a child chi hI and It Is pro profound profound found enough to give the time most able scholar tho time best bt trained thinker material for or study a 11 lifetime Why Wh nut not study the time Gospel rather than tink tinker er 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