| Show ON oS RI 11 am us Christian and Evangelist J What really to be needed Is 18 Isan an nil appeal to country cither for tor a constitutional amendment nt preventing the marriage of a 1 guilty party part to a I di III divorce vorce or such an appeal nit will em emphasize the tha demands of ot the League for tor concurrent Slate to 10 secure lecure this object We heartily wish that the notion taken by b the bring home to the public conscience the Iho awful n of ot our present pre ent system Ant the necessity ot remedial measures ns aM lire practicable cable At the same time lime we wo do llo not lies hs to express the firm Orm In seeking to 10 forbid the remarriage of or an Innocent nl party part to a t divot ce those who u II party part to the movement Ire are not only running counter count r to the be public opinion but bUl am antagonizing th Ih rule prescribed by the Iho Master Malter himself New XI York A man may he hI a 1 fine rhetorician a I popular preacher and an 1 yet et a 1 poor Ioor log loB This was exemplified In the ser sermon mon of ot Dr Lyman Abbott before the of ot Harvard university last week In announcing If It correctly re reported reo ported that ho no longer believed In III a 1 great first cause that his hll god Iroll h I a 1 great Krent and ever present pre ent force torca which Is III manifest In nil the of ot man nil the workings of ot nature he log 1011 could not escape the charge chargo of ot pantheism Yet God Ims n personal per Ity ty he goes on to say utterly utter regard less of ot the logical Impossibility of ot rec reconciling the two conI statements flod 00 1 on n nn evolving energy God working through evolution aro alO radical ly If opposing conception ot or the Deity Delt and nn no legal legerdemain of can 1111 them Would U leI our friend Dr Abbott would confine e him himself self elt lo 10 th moral and practical In re r ligion and theology to those able to see eel the logical bearing of ot their statements N w II York Christian The churchs message mes Is la evidently be Ing heard by the people to n greater extent than Is la ground for en Hut Dul that there nrc fewer people to tench preach r and even elen rend rent the tho Word forbids t us u to 10 be he boastful bOIL With of worship wor hlll multiplying congregations Increasing a I greater re resort r sort than over to the Ihl church on the su IU preme occasions of lit life lite th re Is III not that growth that we have a J right to look for tor either In tho number of ot chil hll dren lIr n brought to baptism pl rn or In the scholars In III our Sunday schools or In the number of or those prepared pr pared for con |
