| Show o 0 ON Toms Springfield Republican No o change In the name of ot the Prot te lant Episcopal church Is desired In ui Massachusetts and Island bland nail and the tho same annie feeling is ii manifest In the ma majority majority of dioceses in tho the country countr A Achurch Achurch church that thai II It old eli and l has haa not much muth more reason raison for changing Its 1111 name than a nation Some Kuru Ruru that the United States of America get et a 0 nov new ne name and nud how surd lurn that seems Cleveland Plain Dealer Denier While r has hu been boen no radical de tIc departure departure fro faith of the fathers the change chane In n the confession of or faith tend to place It more In accord with the spirit ot of the he prevent present ago age The Tha attn aim of the Lice revisers reviser was to simplify the creed clear away aa obscurities and nt at the same lime time Utile preserve intact the essentials ot of the Presbyterian doctrine There Ther Therewa wa was at nt first strong gUong opposition from Irom those thOle who ho feared tho thu pruning knits knife might cut rut too close and so 10 weaken the plant that had hd thriven 10 so 0 well but Jut the conservatism of ot the revisers allayed fears teara cm ond Inspired confidence con nce so 10 that the tho final result Is II almost unanimous In Christian The creeds of the centuries are expressions of the life and thought of or the Church at the time of ot their proclamation tion As ste s such uch they are ate to 10 be rover rever reverenced send ClOd held he as historic utterances of ot the hue churchs faith Hut But progress must be written above nb ve these historic symbols symbol of the faith faith Is II i not de do declining dining clining when It calls call tor for a n new stat tnt mert meat ot or the truth as It Is 11 In Jesus In Inthe inthe the tho twentieth any an more than It was Will declining when it demanded d a n new ne statement to meet the problems of ot the sixteenth century or earlier still gave Its III it verdict from the lips of or upon questions at nt Issue In tn the patristic days The cry of or ft Ii declining faith ralth may come from those tholO who confound relic religious tell ious iou faith with Its It expression In creed cr Religious faith Is a 1 stronger and deeper power than can enn be expressed In any creed erect Definition cannot Innot catch all an au Its meaning any more than it can life lite Christian Work and Evangelist The passing of 01 the agnostic spirit Is Isone Isone isone one of ot the portentous signs Igns ot of the times Professor or Belfast ad nd address address dress lies II I neglected on the top shelf helf of or orthe the modern library and Professor Hux leys bout with Mr lit Gladstone over oer the Mosaic cosmogony Is 1 forgotten like hike his hIt writer earlier plea ViM for tor the substitution of or a pair of or chimpanzees for Adam and Rye Re ReThe The origin of life me without the tile Impulses and resources of a 1 creative mind Is la now regarded y tIm tho t ij Nestor of or the British association uso not ns us a S profound mystery but as al an unscientific stud and impossible hypothesis Miracles are ore not only In Inthe Inthe inthe the Bible but also Al o In every eu plant with the vital principle of ot growth In every human creature swayed by t a frn It Is Impossible but that this last ad nil address n dress of ot Lord lAIrd l should create a n adeep deep Impression Universal Loader Our creed makers and religious teach teachers ore ers rl have not yet discovered that religion religIon ion and morality are arc the two halves of or Line nt living timing thing and you cannot kill one without killing the other Yet Vet this Is the due simple truth Morality or cr obedience to 10 moral law la Is ts at bottom a n distinct conscious or unconscious recognition of Df a n spiritual world of or a moral govern government government ment bent which has a right to put Its com coma command command mand upon our consciences and our con conduct conduct duct |
