New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-17

who would learn love oo0peration and are poisoning
the source or religion In thor hearts; for N
man cannot love bis brother whom no has how
ne ioye an n, unseen God The gaudy saloons and then
glare nO no races OF tho young passing under tho
gasght allurements fit and cluster beckoning health
avenues cutters along which the invisible dsmor
azaon Of great country rolls fed by every conceive
bio device OF selAshnes3. When these religious men
gathered In council they ought TO have unison.
Behold we bring yo1 good tidngs Of great 10y which
from their sins, without tract, with emptod Of
pspIred by fraternity 10 match the evils Of mankind
with the united Intelligence OF every land.
REAL NEEDS or HUMAN NATURE
Instead. of this it is made palmer
theory of saving men by fundamental dogma essep
italy antagonstlc the theory that salvation depends
upon obedience to fundamental law. The primary De
sire OF the churches fraternze in the spirit OF the
dogma. They seek TO array solid front ADAMS. tho
antidOgnasts and the scientific men, who are aoceeA
OF mhdety because they prefer faith IN system OF ma
| ture 10 belief in scheme OF salvation Ibelr o~s
preachers however humane and eloquent pass under
cloud Of dislike and suspicion rs soon as ther themes
take up and popnarlze immediate exlgenci,s Tor nc
man do this without nsensbY Onin gidOwn his creed
God becomes more OF Father than judge ana jesus
more OF brother than an atOnng sacrifice They can
not comprehend the breadth OF spirit which made
Beecher say OF Dr. Furness whose theology 90 rahku
dlsayOwed being Incompetent against SIN: but ~ "a
! admirable to see how much more man can do VITA q
jack knife than 50 many of the others who have whole
OF tools" The great object "a TO keep this chest
well stocked and sharpened. because human nature
refractory timber lying IN the rough, once rooted ana
alive but now f1e with the gh and dry cut Of
the divine soil which used 20 nourish them The prob
lem ia to the into place again. wheedie tho
TO begin mbbng moisture and the leaves 70 oon
dense heavens deg The antidOgmatists claim that
human nature has never been oyerthrown NO incidents
of evil alarming enough 70 destroy TINS SohN.ton
frghen them into recOing from their nenOd OF ap
pealng 70 tendencies that still latent connected
vitality with their sources Oh nonrlshheh', hct & ,t
away from God sap can still cmO ana 10 nauvo SIsto
has turned TO bitterness IL does not 20 DaoN
ON be sweetness which from the gOund OF lt
being. However stlnted and deIOineu thb oIanonos
may be- its heart In IT, and no more roIaen tah Ihe
sIpeier trees Society may Danish the unsghty thing
Its landscapes, parks ana avenues OoCduso ~ Po
fers symmetry ana state, woods OF even gram lo Woh
men tonghness for sailing talness for But the TO
ected rowths still parts OF I'VE nature on WIN
It's feeding or less Man "a not aien oeIf'
Who has offended God. and forced HIM to devise expe1l
ent, for repairing the original disObedencei but lao rs
creature OF various mheritances, ana perpegui MIN
OF the divine household 10y successive Dr1as 20 "
trained developed dOmestiCated, grated with culture
lust he stands, already planted ana WIN grown
vcorons enough To prOnt by practical Treatment You
| might as well 20 into orchard and dr0aim Orees
tragedy 10 the appe-trees teXpectlnB 70 mdhuro Jo
quicken them for Wntsunday, TO indoctrinIIe this
human nature with schemes elaborated out OF texts
Man never wrenched himself from Goa thefe Is no IIa
! ture that needs the solder OF AtOnement; thero u
| only defeat OF growth. departures from the sT
! erage sOundues' vicious results OI hesasS'
! and irrational training The problem or redemp'
ton IL numanary and not dOctrinal. Hseems To DOG
matst pitiuly thin to put our fath 10 narr4l laws;
ana send the human race 10 them for knowledge ana
perception Of God. For they that the soul - Datn
rally unwilling TO be well; some say 1t Is naturally III
able matter now great It's knOwlelgo OF ID s DC
Obedience divine Will IA repugnant to u. Cohso
auently this defect m its structure musI DO IePaeu
grace which Is GOds aiterthOugh1 nucn no 49,.
mat He not quite succt ssul WIN MS creasuIos
started them IN fact with temper g 81 o''"t :,
| 10 their Creator How TINS, sItoo
| be procuredl BY the sentiment Of some per,
| sonaf relation Bsdeemer who Is aa essentials
Dart OF this Deity who HIS creatures badly. Aud
His FUNCTION IS - eXWale We Itu'I psgtYl "ngL y
WAS aud then intercede with the Other Two DsItg
Deity, satisfied as they are stpPoeeu ~ a. WIZ M
sacriye procure for these natural lDeces OF Souls
some grace 20 exc them OUT patch up the rent mako
them capable How strangely TINS eiaOoiate anu Viioi
Oughly artificial theory appears! All the otDer p@ts o
the universe competent ana sesuh0lng Us atoms
| IAN into tner places and arrange tne patterns OF
| a drop a crystal, a planet, flower AT oVery
po1dt 'nO s1d behipd every Object I. natural
force which is sucout to make and keep IL just what It
49, Ts CIaOr Although be- TOO has been de5cpod oS
this original competency, ana IS It's latest .AoLt.
Its preyi0us business. Here tne supreme hand
falters ana becomes the hand OF bungier creator
been for making him. Ho does not it into place as tho
other Things do they are all nicely equal 10 one ps s
thwart It.. He Is greater tndn hover but mcanor DO
cause VIII not blossom sIaght nor nave any Ou' an
| uuslyOry scent. How Is thisf
PURPOSES OF THE CREATOR.
The dogmatsts reply that mistake made at oil.
FOR the Creator meant TO mako creature who should
have a knowledge of good and OF evil There was ne
right aud wrong till man appeared. Now God wanted
good deal OF vice order 10 refine out Of it good deal
OF virtue and make glorious immortal creature Ho
did compromise himself by originating THIS vice. DO
| cause He knew tnat man would do 1t for hun; lie et
mnumerabe chesCnuts out oil eternal IRE by means OF
this party, and no blame TO him a. all Bat about
making WE'LL and al the people were IN danger OF belnS
rremediaby lost. SO some strong measures were taken
! rescue His failure by promise oil super
natural aid. But he must believe ia certain
osp except by these definite channels the
mind must create and keep them open. and salvation
| shall flow between their banks. When tins wh0is
scheme, with all the monstrouo assumptions IL ncudeS
stripped Of evangelical emotion, and the texts upon
by sense, 1t Is such an object TO look az We are
appalled, at mans capacity for error, aud see clearly
|
Nature, lets the universe spin and whips top OF ii
own. The consciousness Vi ngnt and wrong Is the im
! desire recur 10 those Laws must naturally follow
Ths cannot he the occasion of discovering
that they Inadequate 10 u.s. for what, then,
would be the value OF the laws Tbs d0gmaiist sees
this, aud knows that, after all his scheme Is empty
laws. Yet no says there can be personal
| ohedience 10 laws without his scheme hlyriads
Of centuries rcfute him; from catacombs. mummy
pits, aud monuments voices OF virtue aud obedience
named forgotten and women with all the upright
OF Socrates, without his genius 10 express p save
! mn their humble hyes seem to snatch moments res
surrectiol To challenge purity, aud dare 10 match
| it with their own. See the anrOnt OF dogma5 make
blood live in those checks again; the blood shines
through the tints OF bronze. OF copper. eO)ny. and
aabaser one blood OF all people, who stood with roos
in God and drew up this honest indignation with their
virtues, before the Bible began 10 dwarf the earths
chronology Nay, they still sand, IN every county, IN
cessanty supplying the moment with goodness OF
quality fine Alliance issue ana not yelned
cOarsened by unnatural doctrine. They are depend
n mon the incessAnt Deity VINO soiclts hem through
| every law and function provided FOR that purpose.
predestned from the first TO correspond IKE aiI the
| rest Of nature, to Will that mas nothing 90
| rorreot no aferthOughts, but il Itself the
| eyitaDo fact. They yearn toward taat ana gam IL
tons because they naturally aspire anu strive IN the
direction where the channels OF the soul are fuhDnx
noneered 40 long ago bv the fact of eternity Allie
ghany and Rocky Mountains intercept the yapors that
| DRIFT; they stopped ana put W use Down shoy
! rickle, down they run, down they pour every ntto
Wrinkle of the rocks every slgceway through tue soil.
every valley, has been surveyed ana made ready me
waters adapt themselves 10 the conhguratoh OF mo
.sI. has unf tprfl