Deseret Evening News | 1905-01-21 | Page 4 | On Religious Topics

ON UY TOPICS Presbyterian Banner Wo think we ive shall not nol bo he misunderstood stood load If It we WO say MY that theology knows known lose less than It did In III former tines times Form Formerly Formerly orm erly It lad had nn an air suggestive of came omnis omniscience Glance It gave the tho Impression that It know nil fill about limb In ills His mysterious ous eus constitution and In his hiM and purposes Wo WI open n a hook book on theolo theology II gy written over forty year ago ngo and thud Ind the Trinity dissected down lon to min nun minute minute ute ate details and nM nil all figured 1 off ort ns as though It were a 1 series of ot equations equation The rime doc doctrines doctrines trines of the tho atonement mind and all 1111 tha lito ot or God and man ann manart annare lire art treated In III the tho same way WAr Front From al ul almost almost most any nn verso verse of ot Scripture the tho most tremendous Inferences will trill bo be drawn and then Ihen these Inferences will bo ho fronted floated ns as though they wern certain knowledge I e Tho The r sayings of ot Scripture that mostly Uttered tot for practical lI purposes were turned by hy tha the theold old theology logy to meanings and Ind uses UM of ot which th lr authors never thus out of ot them theta rose an nu imaginary universe nid an nn nl Imaginary God There has lias boon bean a II great t reaction against this thle kind 1 of Qt unreality The Bible has been rescued from Com these thORP theologians or rather this type hpe of at theologian line has about eased II litI away mid the tho hook book Is Isnow pow now permitted to tu speak Its Ile natural mod and practical meaning menning