The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-10-11

HERALD, SUNDAI OCI'
the image OF that divine substance which is all
act all power, all life; and remember, too, that
very stay OF all created Things, and that this all
pervading ana creating Power penetrates to tue
very principle OF all energy and force througnout
creation Tnus then. on the one hand, the cate
chlsm which teaches tue little child that "God is
everywhere, filing heaven and earthu places
within reach OF the full grown. scientific man. the
best solution ever attempted Of TINS appalling
difficulty; and, on the other, what theology
teaches OF that activity which constitutes the
divine lie AFFORDS counterpart to the catechism,
and thus completes the explanation.
We have thus, IN the first place, the fact patent
to reason ana afirmed by revelation. that Gods
stance; that Gods energy or power--cali 1t by
what name you wlll-subssts side by side with
every force displayed in the universe and that
Gods Intelligence and Will is the very soul OF lie,
ana fts circumambient atmosphere wherever life
Is found. We have in the second place, the no less
familiar fact that the divine substance Is Infinite
reality and actuality IL Is all that II can possibly
be at every conceyabie moment It's act OF intel,
ligence produced the Infinite substantial, personal
reality we call the Word and Son OF Cod It's act
OF love produced that other personal Infinite the
Holy Spirit. Within Gods BOSOM them the SUBJ
stantia acts OF the divine life terminated i'll the
procession OF two divine persons distinct from the
Now, Gods power is Gods own substance, and
the object OF that power Is creation, the produc-
ton OF an Indefinite number OF created systems,
all Initiative OF the divine reality. God is free 10
create; but II He does create, the term OF His
creative act must be substantial. 1t must result
in the production OF Observation-Disclosures SUBJ
stances-dlstincJ from the divine, but still real
substances.
Here it is that the preceding observations can
help us to approach this mystery.
], VINO am limited being, can create work o
mlnd poem fiction, which can have, outside Of
my sphere or existence, reality, permanent,
SUBSTANTIAL lie, that can endure for ages or for
ever, when am no more. The expression which
In which 1t may be embodied by myself or others
after me, can only be the limitations, more less
spiritual; their forms are chiefiy material But /
know that these are the conditions attendant on
the creations OF human genius.
But here is the Divine Being about to create.
No reality can be conceived possible or can exist
outside OF the mind which conceives II, but is an
being. And when created, that new reality Ia still
surrounded and penetrated by the infinite reality.
There Is no gap between the type OF man In Gods
mind, ana the place in time and space occupied by
that same man when created There Is no dis
lance between the hama which draws the ideal
mind and the hand which places IN existence and
IN the iull enjoyment OF power and NE the world
centre and circumference OF this immense unit
verse and that divine substance which is the core
OF that centre, and extendS lmmeasurably beyond
the utmost limits Of that circumference. 1t is one
lnnnlte ocean OF substance without shore or bot
tom, IN which creation IS enclosed as drop in
the sea, ana you ask whence comes to the bidding
OF the Divine Will and to the touch Of the
Almighty aas the
1t comes from Him who Is the ocean OF substance,
OF reality, whose very act Is substance, producing
substance. How IS that? know not. But con-
ceive clearly that IL must be So Yes; exist
amid that boundess ocean we call Tod. What we
possess OF existence must be communicated by
Him who 10 alone self-exlstent; our being must be
participation Of His, who Is the sole necessary be-
ing; our substance in it's endless variety ana mod
iacation must be in some lnscrutabe way derived
from Him who Is the sole simple and immutable
substance without accident or change; our life
and the life OF all that we behold must spring from
that abysmal Lie whose secret no man kn0wetn
or ever knew.
materialsts say to be the perfection and crown OF
all being, know not the mysterious elements Of
my heart puisates or my blood Courses s in NV
veins, or my members grow or decay. Ihave not
the secret Of my llie,s beginnings, nor can ! stay
my hand in writing these words, nor how my
soul within me exerts her own powers, feels,
thinks, remembers reasons, wills. so Is it with
the grain Of corn which l plant; how 1t germ-
mates. grows, rlpens and produces hundred fold
beneath my care is an Questionable mystery.
The laws which govern the beginning, the
growth and the end OF hfe; the laws which unfold
the babe, as well as those which mold together the
planets OF each cOsmic system around their re-
speetive suns, | can only dlmly discern IN some
This only am sure of-lnflnite intelligence con-
ceived my possibility before time began to be ;
infinite love desreed that l should exist; that
power, that divine act, which alone Is substance,
produced me and all that is and Infinite wisdom
Is still the lamp OF my poor reason and the sun OF
revelation IN my heavens
eysrysanS there are a at eas
things made clear to me; among them that had
noble origin, since God bore me within His mind
and heart from charity and that have noble
destiny TO behold in the lie to come without veil
or shadow, Him whose footprints now Tever-
emily trace in creation. There, In his light
shall know Him as l am known by Him, aud see
clearly what now dlmy perceive but believe
nrmly-shat he Is my God, the substance OF my
substance, the life OF my lie, and the soul of my
soul PRUDENTIUS.
Two Religions.
This is the season for conventions and confer
ences by Protestant Christendom. The ministers
have got back from the mild and clerical pleasures
OF the summer, and ieel ready and able to grapple
with the formidable conundrums OF denomina-
tional policy, a large crop Of which is harvested
every October. The Baptists and Methodists are
apparently IN the most placid and g0od-natured
mood, Tor beyond the slight e6ervescence which Is
consequent upon the contact with each other of q
large body Of men whose life makes them some.
what angular and developes personal peculiari.
ties. their meetings have been quiet, decorOus
and fruitful or good results. The Congregational
lists at New Haven had more notable session. IL
was opened by o thunderbolt from DR.. r. S
Storrs, which must have curdled the milk OF
human kindness in the heart OF Tyndall and given
sudden start the molecular forces In the biceps
Of Huxley. His scorchtng criticism upon the
attempt OF these gentlemen to settle not only the
science, but also the theology Of the time,
irely worthy Of the OCCASION and will not be soon
forgotten. The quick and sharp distrust of the
Convention, too, which was aroused when the ap-
parently innocenr words we notice were pro-
nounced with a show OF authority, and the almost
instant rebellion against receiving any advice
from anybody, which developed ITSELF shows bow
thoroughly indivtdualized Protestant ism has be-
come or is last becoming.
and Catholicism been brought out more wildly.
The one is centripetal and constantly tends to-
ward . common centre. Whatever differences Of
opinion may ARISE and however sharply the con-
testants may engage In the battle Of church poity
that Church Is just as much an unit at the end as