Show BE NASCENT christianity the news has received for review a volume entitled renascent christi 1 anity written by A clergyman and published by G P ms sons new york the object of the author is to prove that av au sectarian divisions of christendom including reasonable trinitarians and conservative tans ians can be united by a return to the truth as it is in jesus the author authar 1 argues that we are living in an age in which everything is being made new science thought methods aspirations I 1 all are new religion cannot escape this tendency for ages there has been a process of at regression to in the direction of the corruption and follies of heathenism now we must go back to first principles this is christianity rena scent or born again the christian religion of the future this new christianity the author argues will be truly eclectic the great question is not he says which religion church sect school or system suits me best but what in each and in all can I 1 accept as true one would naturally suppose that such a comprehensive I 1 question would result in the ultimate formation of a a most leng lengthy creed but the author suggests that six RIX articles of faith and as many pledges would comprehend the entire doctrinal and ethical system needed this Is the proposed creed 1 I belleve believe in the fatherhood of god 1 I believe in the teachings of jesus 4 X believe in the guldan guidance of the huy hily spirit 1 I believe in the clean heart 1 I believe in the savior of love 1 I believe in the unworldly life the pledges are these X promise primi ie to trust god and love 14 him 1 I to take my cross crosa and follow I 1 pra promise fie to accept the holy hahr spirit asla aiudi guide as my 0 1 I vr promise dinie to forgive dal love my ene ais ta love my as 06 t the author rejects the belief in da exclusive revelation a chosen ila line prophets a deposit of truth a taha j once for all delivered to the saintil favorite people of god or a one axt only true church he does doeg not b belle e I 1 that the seers of the jewish and C charlap tian religions saw different truths from those which the seers of othel otheir r jea unions bad seen though they saw sar wider deeper and higher all rf li gions as far as they go reveal the ta same eternal truth he f urther further believes that sacred scriptures arte at modern as well as ancient and tit j the canon as it is called has JUA reached its alpha volume that there thai are seers today or ought to b I 1 as many and great as ever were raised up in all tb past that inspiration include included it t everything that is pure and beautiful and good consequently the 0 aal testament prophecy has just boft fenced to be fulfilled it shall to pass in the last days balth god 7 A will pour out of my spirit upon auit B flesh and your sons and your dan shall prophesy and your yo men shall see visions and your old mk shall dream dreams and on all my a servants and on all my handmaidens hand maidens I 1 pour out in those days of my and they shall prophesy T this Is believes is about to corne come to pass i that will be the great feature of tho th f hectic christianity of the twentieth coq prom from this it will be seen what aim of the volume under review the author starts from the truth fl announced in the fundamental reve rev tion of mormonism that all the 13 see have degenerated following the ih thus struck h he e arrives at great tru accepted by but few outside of th tha who believe in the gospel where kere fails s is in the supposition that spurious elements of modern beligio systems can be cleared out without restoration of that divine author autho with which moses the prophets apostles of jesus were endo endowed restoration rest bration of the church is the edw of god and not of man not even of tabt most eelig enlighten ten edthe most holy of S j mans part in the work is as much ib of divine authority as of divine isi it la Is a question of po brer as well as of knowledge and the D Is the only source of both the ahu ohu can never be restored except the instruments that are endowed both with divine inspiration and lau higher criticism of which the an seems to expect so much may re rex good service in clearing the grou grovac some game rubbish hut but it will furnish terdal of which to build the new still renascent christianity remarkable volume important t tl often expressed with telling tore scattered its iti pages I 1 cannot but exercise si wholesome U once ence upon the rel religious leoUs thought of age much of which re ia ved tied bin hand foot feyt in spiritual bondage it Is I 1 iff ed as bl a comp companion aalon to an earlier by bir the same author entitled entitle 4 scriptures of thi the world |