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Show ARCHBISHOP RYAN ON NEW RELIGION. The venerable Archbishop of Philadelphia touches the core of the fallacy underlying the suggestion sug-gestion of a new religion founded on humanitar-ianism, humanitar-ianism, advanced by President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard. In an interview on Sunday last, he said, among other things: "One of the most fatal and demoralizing superstitions of this country is this attempted separation of morality from doctrinal teaching. Doctrines are as the granite foundation to the whole edifice of Christian ethics, and with them that edifice must stand or crumble into ruins. What underlies the value of holy childhood but the doctrine that the child has an immortal soul? Abolish this, look at the child only in the light of its utility to the state, and soon infanticide will commence again, and deformed children will be put to death, when .men shall have lost the tendencies ten-dencies which Christianity has produced and fostered. fos-tered. ... In the name of our Christian civilization, I, a bishop of the Christian church, lift up my voice to warn you that the popular .modern system of teaching morality without the doctrines that motive it, whether that system be called Christian Chris-tian ethics or moral instruction or unsectarian teaching, is sapping the very foundation of Christianity Chris-tianity and Christian civilization." |