Show OF CAMPBELL GAMp CAMP f. f iFS W BELL DELL IS Rev Frank Fay Eddy Preaches on oil Alleged Heresies of Theologian NO FUTURE PUNISHMENT British Pastor Whose New In- In Is Exciting General Comment 4 p At t the tIc services ser of the First Unitarian ian Il society ety Sun Sunday n the n v. Hi-v. Frank JU lIll on Tho The latest Heretic discussing the Kev He It n. J. J Campbell and the v e Theology excitement excitement ex ex- r in England Unity quartet sang hang au an anthem and Air Mr Ir Robert Roben the of Cerl solo hi his sang offertory 0 I selection being The Gates Gales of PearLt Pearl t Mr lr E Eddy lly discussed the tho significance of the tho popular Interest In Iii theolo theology in Iii a abl abroad bl broad all way war waro saying o in part pail The latest t h is an English English- II S. S man The Rev Rc R. R J. J Campbell i is the tho man nan Ho lie is pastor of the thc most In- In Congregational church In J England the me London CH City Temple He lie has Iou e l what one magazine calls a leal thun thunderstorm In England Ho Is the central ligure of a curious r state of religious excitement nt and not only aro the and the I clergy college professors Sol ln his hi new theo logy but so are me mc men n and women In all ranks of oC life until the newspapers I 4 r r and magazines mas are arc half hulf tilled v with the discussion of the man and his message mesa mes- sage se while his recent book bool sold 20 O.- O. f 3 t S copies In ten days Ia This Tills mornS morning morn morn- S ing illg I a ask k your consideration of this 1 latest heretic f 5 I Three questions I will ask and attempt to briefly answer in pursuing f S this little pil pilgrimage of oC im investigation estimation I i First who is he this tills heretic Second what Is his me message age or 01 here heresy Third what does docs It H. H his heresy heles mean Let LetS l th these e ns mile milestones S questions serve ene as stones or oruille S guide posts to mark the stages of our L l ho Is he lie then lie He is a young youngs s man with a rare lare gift of oC simple fervid I. I j preaching His Ills sermons are aro delivered lC S without notes and with lit little LIe formal preparation Since going goin- from flom Brighton to Lon London he has hasen given en the theL he L i British public a succession ion of j shocks which have ha brought It to lo toS toto S to somewhat frenzied condition His Influence has cleft the public both within an and 1 without the churches chuiches into two disputing camps t Speaker or Thinker Ills His critics sa say and some of his r ft lends friends a admit mit that Ir Campbell Is a but not a thinker er His thought lacks Jacks clarity his method Is emotional an and Instinctive rather than iL S philosophic and comprehensive c But Buthe Buthe f he reaches the great public True Tru his 1 message is mystical and he is often oHen S enough shallow But his light ht shines from a hill top 01 while the thc candles o of S his critics scholars and logicians though thc they are flicker el under a J i iI C 1 I bushel So much a about out the man What hat 1 j has he to f say f-ay a Here we must quote i to some extent He Hc says The start start- hig point 0 of th New Theology Theolog Is- Is isa a emphasis re-emphasis of or the tho ChrIstian belief belle In the tho divine immanence In the universe e ea a and in mankind The divine imma- imma Thence this is Indeed hi his central idea Everything else In his system clusters around or depends upon this master thought l. l So he tells us that Go God is that mysterious power which is finding finding find find- ing expression in the universe and which is present In the tiniest atom of the whole That there Is no dividing divid ld ing lug between our being and that of God except that which we draw raw from our side It Is logical enough for fOl him to ay say from froni this point of view Jow that thal sin Is IsS S but hut the privation of what 5 wc c know to be he good and to conceive e that tha t sin tin Is the opposite of or love lo I c Of Christ he hc says fays ay In him S humanity was as divinity and divinity humanity He lie separates Christ in inno no IO a way from the thc rest of humanity except cx- cx COIt a as he was separated In the moral perfection of or hl his nature Indeed he T takes talO- pains to assure us that Jesus was WUi the tho child of oC Joseph and Mary laT and had lall an au uneventful childhood Xo No Punishment t A of or the future life liCe he lie Speaking as- as 5 crt erts that everlasting c punishment 1 z i would mean the tIme defeat of or God Goll because because be be- S. S cause that would mean that sin bin should remain everlastingly I No o he lie po positively cl I L l declares there i Is 1 no ho such thing a as ask k 5 punishment no off far jud judgment day S no great white throne and amid no judge external to ourselves The true resurrection ruction Is spiritual not material S Heaven cn and hell are states stale of or the soul When a guilty g soul awakens to the lie lieS S truth hell heH begins Salvation and atonement are just as operative on un the tho theS the'S side of or death as on this side Ide f S 'S V other uther V. V Now Xu what does s 's this all mean It Is surely enough heterodox Ho lie does doe not lint pause to argue arguo about Iho lie articles article of faith hut but simply dismisses them ne Beginning with the all Inclusive assumption assumption as as- of the tin immanence cc of God he lie makes a s series rie of frank franl and tire tin assertions What hat he lie says ays is II no not nol new and I Is scarcely tholo theology in iii the accepted s sense of the word Now ow what wha Is the significance of his me message ahe To Tomy Tomy my mind he lie Is a prophet a minor prophet I admit but hm a prophet of or a anew anew new tn of spiritual union which Is coming to pass J In the modern world worl I recall that Paul vail ald to the lie Ians who were wen of tho ho that Je Jesus us Christ had hall en down o n the thc middle wall of partition between them and amid the lie J Jews ws find and a assured them so o then lien ye re me no more strangers ant null amid sojourners but ye re arc fellow citizens of or the time saints and amid o of the hou household of God Goll Time TIle Work Vork ork of ol the time Heretic That Is the lie work worle of heretics always al- al ways the lie down n of oC division walls It was a the lie work of Jesus to promote a new Jew unity b hy by leveling llIn first the walls of cm ell ed ced and pride e which the priestly cas Caste te had hull e about the Jew through tIme tilt lOll long centuries Some Sonic similar ork olk ork has been done iloilo h bj a procession of heretics through h the ages ales Such a work Campbell a and amid Crap Crapsey e ar are doing now AS ns Channing and amid Emerson on did dill for or their genera genera- Thc They all break n down barriers Still their thell work worl depends for fOI Its usefulness s upon a widely diffused consciousness consciousness con con- of now Ill truth truth v. v which wj will serve to create a n new w and for the age c more moro natural union This new ness consciousness consciousness con con- I 1 e believe we have lm developed loell and once th the 01 old 1 limitations are ore destroyed it will perform perform per per- form its work Tho The mystery of uC the birth of faith Is ever el about us even cn evenIn In iii this prosaic a age e of or business All MI does docs not belong belonI to mammon Ono One b by one the heretics do their wor york work Among them looms largest lars the Nazarene chief among the heretIcs I or OP p 11 Fl lh The He Benjamin On This Subject The Tho Rev He Benjamin Young of the First Methodist church took for fur his text Sunday Sunda morning mornin The Tho Life Was Vas tho ho Light of Men len John I 1 1 a 1 Ills Ilis subject was as Problems of oC Life and andin andin in ill part he said ai Problems are aro solved by life Every g life lIe Is an interpretation of something Life alwa always s represents sonic some factor The life of any great s man mall throws a flood Hood of at light on the questions of or his is age It Is because of this fact that the study of human biography Is so valuable Tho The life of Jesus Christ threw a a. flood of light upon some of the problems of hl his time This life is the lie perfect feet answer to some of oC the questions which have e been in the thought ht o of men inca during the ages Many ran of the tho mysteries Into which philosophers philosophers PlierS lIeh del cd ell have had hall light lIht poured upon thorn thom by the doctrine of or the thc Christ From tho the life of the Galilean we wo have ha light lIht upon four our great reat problems hems lems namely God Gol guilt ethics an amidi and amid Immortality i nt mn 0 1 a I i y S The Tho great reat books hooks of the tIme world have hae been occupied with fth the problem of God Is there a a. Go God If so o what about his hrs not dim or T Ts It no i for Ol or to mc me to ki know I him l t Tiles These qu ques questions 1 c s- s I have stirred the thought ht of or the thereat great reat thinkers of the world Emerson Emerson Emer Emner- son once saul said If Jr the worl worlds world's s 's library wen werl burning vl I with h our OUI Bible and Plato and Shakespeare we would vc our Plutarch IIi In these hooks books quoted b by the gi great l' l at essayist there Is much at attention attention at- at given ghen to the problems pi I have enumerated 1 Job Joh cries out 0 O that J I Ji knew where I might Him That Thatis is hi s u H race question lIon That has hu been the jurden of or tho the worlds world's cr cry Seneca and Cicero and Aurelius an and 1 us were occupied with this problem Confucius has attempted a solution Zora-ster Zora has given en an nn answer Mo- Mo hammell and the priests of or India have ha replied There has he been en some ome fine line thinking upon the question The best answer the lie mo most t satisfying however hOWO has las been S' S given Sen en by Jesus Christ The tc chin of Jesus Jesu Christ Chilst Is a solution of the problem of God Goll but hut his life i ia is isa isa a no less satisfactory answer Wel to the que questions questions- which come come into the soul concerning God Goll The Master came to tell us that communion or fellowship with Ith the lie Divine was pos possible It lc Ho lie came to show us how to reach the Father Rather lie III came to lift mind and heart icart up I to God Goll Ills His was to tell the lie sot SOlTo rowing and struggling children dill chil dren IIren of 01 earth eaith that God heard the cr cry I of the broken he heart rt and sympathized d with er e burdened 1 soul Jesus Christ came to uncover Go God and no thinker has lias so revealed rC the Divine to men PIl YEnS OlE U l Jinny llIn for Conciliation In Strike settlement In III man many of or the lie churches HUn Sunday l morning the pastors referred to the street car ear strike nn and several offered prayers for conciliation The Tho Hc Benjamin Ben lien jamin Young Youns- of the thc 1 First l Methodist ch church reh pra prayed for the conciliation of or orthe the company an and Its and antI that thc they would would- come cum to lo nn an understanding without trouble TIn The Kev Hc P. P A. A Simpkin Simp- Simp kin 1111 of the lie Phillips Congregational church eh offered a a. pru prayer lr for the men and company and that their troubles trouble be settled settle in a a. peaceful manner The Rev Hc Mr Ir also referred to the tIme strike In his sermon but did not nol take tale up either slik of tho the question |