The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1868-11-18
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God Neither One Nor Many.

uuV OVu 70 " UuON. AA0tsVO We 0ukUs0AV
gate in our prayers, homilies and other
speeches concerning God when We use the
adjectivos Almighty, All.Msrciful. All
Wise, ETC., and they should be eliminated
from our sserotysd and extempore forms o.
worship, and they should never be used
when we speak or think Of God in the day
and 10 the night; in the church, at the OPP
era, in the hospital, and whenever and
wherever we remember God, and feel CRATE
full for tho blessing and protection vouch-
safed to us by the Law. tho Spirit which
is God. Wemust contemplate God in the
abstract rs being 1mmutable and infinite,
and governing eternally in wisdom, regu-
larity, harmony and perfection, with con.
slant resultants Of good:-6r We may
thus get glympse Of tho True, and hope
that hereafter the True and the Why may
be revealed to US.
With this conception Of God, may we
not bumbly hope that We place ourselves
more under the benign influence Of God
than VIC do through the dogmas Of any one
of the many religions Of the world which
have ct different periods demanded the
unity or plurality of Godf The christian
religion In its strict Galiiean conception,
and with reiepnce to the simple precepts
mot dogmatical-as taught and practised
by Jesus and, for a fen years after his
death, by tho twelve Apostles, is the very
best that, in our knowledge, has ever exis-
ted, for the inspired and exalted Founder
was full Of beauty, purity and truth 10 the
largest degree that humanity admits. He
was just and mercifal; Ho was gracious and
full of loving kindness. He IL an Exem-
plar for oil mankiud;-for the Gentle rs
well for the Jew;-for the civilized man
and for outer barbarian.
Let us then believe in God and receive
instruction from his momently revelation;
let US follow the example Of the blessed
and exalted Jesus, and We may then indeed
claim him as our Savioor; but especially we
shall find ourselves conforming to the Wis
dom and harmony, and approaching the
perfection Of God as they are revealed
to our daily sight, with the blessed hope
that, hereafter, w shall RECEIVE Gods
Truth.
I do not know. Nh. Editor, how fur the
above remarks may be acceptable to you
as discussing subject in manner to
which your readers may take exception.
In considering the matter, however, do
not see that the moral and religious scnti-
ments Of the community may be offended
by the discussion. l have expressed N.Y.
self in the briefsst and simplest terms, 90
that ny logic it false, and my inquiry after
truth. if wrongly!lirected may be refuted At
once if deemed worthy Of the effort; and
if refuted there is no ono who would &C.
knowledge the fact sooner than l would,
for then there would be one lees lallacy IN
tho world. The whole word 10 seeking
out enlightenment of the nature Of God.
This may never be yielded to the search Of
man, but certainly, at least hopingly, some
profit, some good may be had in the attemp
to clear away many Of the dogmas that now
darken the creeds of tho world. This at
tempt is being made and win continue to
be made by enlightened men, and councils,
and churches, in contemplating God in the
abstract, and in studying Gods momcntly
revelations through sequences immutabie,
infinite and eternal. By this method may
not our mental vision become clearer, and
freer from mist, possibly aGording glympse
of the True, and giving hope and faith that
after this life the Truth will be revealed to
MS. G.