New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-10
RELIGIOUS.
WHAT IS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GROUNDS OF ffs CLAIMS
UPON MAYKND--sERMoN BY THB REV DR.

On Thursday evening last the Rev. Dr. Bellows
delivered sermon which interesting as beng distinct
cgnceop Of the Doctrines Of Unitaransm and the grounds
upon which IFS adheens base claims The text was from
FceosIastics OH Chapter, l4th and 18th verses
,r.t us ss H. AID he bai great bawark' against
found 10 wise man. and be BY h' wisdom
q aIeTs ,.d iS wisdom S /. better lsn strength
This little city said the speaker is that fortified position
which minority possession Of truth In advance OF he times
always seems be hOdiRg and which the great king Majority
steadily up against and beseges and builds great pun
WaIks against and seems just ready 70 Oyerwhe bu' hat
moor wise man who less than Truth itself 10 Tegu
ay y his wisdom delivers the city matter how mpered
u may be yet the devereT Is not remembered Tuth
In he hands Of minority little honor though
renders vast services and merits all praise and 80 the sacred
a. We look stout US and behold little handful Of Unita
raL churches little band Of liberal believers scattered
among the hosts Of adherenis TO the popular erceds can e
believe that many deeply and nationally convinced oil the
importance and truth Of their own religious views may ask
Lemsoy's Why consent 10 STAND ia tLs sttuIs OF opP
ton the object Of general suspicion and attack Why remain
the ranks Of feeble minority TO be Questioned ana oossd
askance al and he denied py many eAeeIeLt ahu
PEOPLE the Christian name and hOpes-when TRIUMPH
majority ia good repue and with al the pfe,tge aud com
fort Of long success IN occupancy W INC sVyiai ti ~
the theological rOugholds with oprions all labeled ana OPP
proved stands with open ready 10 welcome every apohg
IRON the old faith back 20 Its fold and give I'm ne" hoh9's au
congratulations the recovery Of bis birth rgt gene
ration ago inc ulihlaHs VIZ S - mi milo.
yGsy with the Irnil lfns ana lhu We .sl ~ IL
soplica arguments for their faith NJ TIER tongues enc
But while tie Old te1tual controversy over ana Io Ae 70
Be- renewed the principles when enus'u ue
and forced into beeaguered minority are "a as ea ahAsD
and constantly IN earnest practical conhct
IS not Gutagonsuc views touching lhly or uulll
fetal atoneueli moral reconciliation the personality o Ns
Holy Spirit the doctrine OF everlasting punishment OF o'
final restoration that give rse !" lle Ihel'tl - a.
tween and all the socaed orthodox secs but the man ~
pue whether matters Of opinion questions Of lheofS
truth IN theology ARE questions ih'~aAB tlc ~ ~
human soul Orthodoxy takes The affirmative We sahu IN
opposition We aow perfect liberty Of inquiry ana o. olh
Ion both ~ 70 the theology Of tie popular churches asa
Of their own We demand II Christian believer that
he tlau take Christ bis Master in ne practical way
81 recognizing him a. man pattern ahd gAle
the authority u bis lie and Ieccpts his spirit and temper
and all that Christ demanded and al That Pfoesiht
PRINCIPLES allow wien logically adhered 10 Our opinions are
distinguished by gentcuess Lopeulness common sense en-
couagement and uuechnicsl and free spirit Truaau'
and ayilss do not receive CLrsany according 20 s a
Ieaancc their crceds Thousands O.; ucm sWt 20 r.
ruda'c al the harsh and irrational Consequences q Their
dogma aud when stated IN the plain terms 81 ne ,eed' even
tho doctrines themselves still The crccds contain these harsh
dogmos and the ogca adherens asseTi them And Jet
not fal 10 remark that our fellow Christians .,
tie ORTHODOX tecis everywhere actively rngaged
IN ndisgegsaoe services NE So'Is sI 'h nomsni
as enemies except IN respect oftIec theological opino
II say as must some sharp hinss about doeirihss @
we upon let ne not he deemed unAna S W.
just those who receive them oplose We o.ei.s' mn.
sees wlich have been Inherited BY f9od men ana 70 WHICH
" Tg. , ,estrr n cy Esiche 10 difference, between the
o. The called orthodox secis and those Of e una
Orthodoxy represents Coda sovereign teg,u tsin
efmposed laws which brought him from TIE birth OF ile hs!
terrible conflict with the human race VINO ,! Aaams
matched far he accepted Christ by the INTERPRETATION q
second person m an assumed Trinity son OF v ing
uucrcaitd eternal equal with TIE fHther-~ho gti,1 ls
sacrifice delivered his message 81 mercy aid ditl oea
ate
do receive IL terms fall under ne original curse ana 20 20
endless This scheme the unArans REJECT ~ myth
irrational the result q gnoranee and creduy lLy re
gard God ~ Father and tink That ls chosen name on L
makes al original curse an impotshliy. lhy fytci ie
IrnGrlan doctrine invented BY heoogans b. the second cen
tury cumhrous scholastic seRemT lacsng col,oh ann
inioNCby and give Christ the position he oiaims-ihht
Of the Son Of God His subordinate, His
TBo KIN one dsy ave up i power as The Head Of he Church
10 HE Father Win Uniaans the aonemeni simply the a.
meni-he bringing together Of man With od-ihe recon
citation Of the child sieBated from bic Father by sin and gno
with Ls loving parent This opinion 10 IN direct con
rat with that dogma the ycnous atonemeni and Is
esteemed enderest and precious doctrine Of
church IL represents God NJ himsc party obofteohcd
AZ having been snce Adams fall infinite anger with his chill
dren and proptAted by the death u HE innocent He "a
tu wratu with the lmpenent and unconveed who always
form vast ory Of his creatures UntaTans do not be
Heye this doctrine Of original fall changing tie moral ma
tuTe 0mAn They believe that he was and GRATED upgL IN
nocent and capable Of virtue aud holmes, feeble
only through ignorance and exposure and often perverted
by his Of training and by the evil which surrounds him
This view they hold in opposition 20 the doctrine o. native in
born universal deprayity derived With the curse which accom-
panied IL from Adams fall Regeneration with them the
rdety and normal awakening OF tho spiritual nature from
sleep opposed the notion u miraculous change In the
moral constitution Of the soul The Holy Spt they recognize
the influence Of Gods breathing love always blowing but
never filling spiritual lungs until expand them voluntar
lily 20 receive H. This Is In opposition 70 the doctrine OF tru
person In the Trinity whose influence be- invited by doc
na convictions and professions and whose presence oeea
sona exceptional and peculiar They reverence the Bible
as a wonderful and sacred book containing IN the
Old Testament the whole literature, sacred, his
torica and poeca Of the Jewish people written In large part
T wholly unknown authors and under the ordinary lgh Of
human knowledge and with all the ordinary subsection TO human
with exalted passages nom minds lifted far above their
time and filed with truth and holiness IL will last long AZ
the world stands but they believe 10 be book which should
be read without supersuuous hteray and with rec ana
rational yet reyerena discrimination. They regard the New
Testament the record Of revelation made by and eye
witnesses by reigOusy inspired yet not free from inc
preudces and theoretical or even practical errors Of their time
and therefore not binding upon 10 the serye way OF an
acceptance Of it's statements after purely grammatical exam
lexicon but human soul in the largest Of its faculties
which interpret H. The Bible Is the record Of what holy
men thought and said they moved by Holy Spirit
r influence
call the world physical ruin all It's being dOnted IN
the original twist given By the Introduction Of which
cursed the ground They consider life period Of probation for
existence which will begin until dead aid have
risen again on the other side Of Time and which will begin only
misery and ruin for all who converted TO
special yewo Chr's saorce and do not accept his atone
men in technical sense With what right can human beings
surrounded by millions Of dying souls IN peril Of everlasting
ruin, give any legitimate attention 20 their own imme
direct reference to the salvation Of souls Unltarians
regard eternal life as beginning when 1.-THE soul begins
They consider this world as much Gods residence any other
that happiness legitimate here In heaven that life Is
not wholly for Interior end but partly end that
God make his children happy that education Is
always going on and learn By and by freedom from
careby what serious and by what gay that God inter
efed in our business pleasures tastes and that the
ascec and terrifying views Of life and fluriy which ntedct
large part Of human nature and ofracize all but special set
Of faculties deform and dwarf the soul and ultimately produce
fearful reaction which makes religion hated and
God defed Untarians believe in greater reliance
upon Gods love for IN generous laws in mild punments
mild but One common school does more 10 reduce
vicious neghborhood TO order than dozen policemen One
tender hearted visitor jail will shake and soften the
Of an Obdurate whom punishment could not
The world be scared out OF is sins Even bre
now broken 20 harness By Kindness The human soul dces
scornuy those who come In the Of God invite " 10
Heaven BY pcurng 20 II the horrors Of flaming he'll Who
this God who hates many Of feeble Who u tins
God who make worship him for his goodness Will
millions like writing In the fortunes Of bis unre
lenng Lnndi No AndeuonyDe prison with its Writes and
Wnders deserves iota Of the loahng and hatred WITH
which the should repe the idea Of predestined
ruin in flaming pit FOR endess ages tho penalty Of
helpless ignorahce and hereditary deprAyity visited
femorseessy upon the bengcd heather upon him who
rejects the cearest light Of The Gospels The earnest minds
and hearts Of the void instead Of expanding their energies IN
holding up the crumbng walls Of Trnitaran and CalVniso
heoOgycooperng the slaves Of barrel thai no longer holds
securely the Of shoud with consent turn to ana
esisbsh that rational liberal Christianity which Is as Ger
siny pretgured by the shadows ~ coming eyepui ash
destined Ultimately 10 b the creed VI CbIsiepdom.