The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-10-18

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tine, from Augustine TO Thomas Aqutnas ant
from Aquinas 10 the teachers OF the nineteenth
century We do not fasnion the Creator after tht
| model OF the human workman but we find the
ideal OF the human artihcer In the divine. For II
the Divine Workman the true ideal suDsists eter
OF our reason, Is Gods own uncreated reason and
! word. so our glimpses OF the ideal Ii even here
tans SnI o. u tas aavos gns
types We. IN all onr works, have but imperfect con
ceptions OF reality, goodness aud beauty, and ouI
perfect than the ideal notion which guides us But
| we know well That our power or cOnceiving the
are necessarily limited, like our being while God
In whose likeness We are maze. has an infiite mind
cute We know with equal certainty that the i'm
perfection which we observe In and ms dOings,
as well all else IN creation are the necessary at
tendants OF limited nature. 1t ID as GER
tam any one thing can be in the order
I OF knowledge, that God, IN creating cannot In any
/ feet that He cannot create thing lar more per
feet still. lie cannot create the INFINITE. Ii He
cannot either IN any one being or class OF beings.
IT remains necessarily true that given the most
perfect human being ever created, one far more
peeci yet remains ai, possible 70 God No one bet.
the germ Of truth which here present, or see
further into the ideal depths which even
here should say to him:-Ir rs more
your misfortune than your fault. that you have
OF the past or the present. Else. you must have
learned tnat, u mperiectons necessarily exist IN
the There are aH IN I
lures, even in man who stands at the summit OF
the visible creation. But the very moral def
created free, can be healed and compen-
stated BY the ever ready assistance OF his
Maker For neither the material universe, nor
above all things, man, can be compared to the
clock OF Strasburg, which the artlfcer has wound
up lor q definite period and then left to itself.
Tnis is not my conception OF my Creator, nor
what He has revealed to me or Himself l know
that He Is ever with me; that His hand and heart
only use them to assist my own weakness. il
is not Ibis garment which see sin tho visible
the seen and especially IN the unseen. For the
seen is contingent and changing the unseen Is
Interchangeable and eternal. You say that this
ble." But this is only one OF the fatal and PERM
cious axioms which false science LAYS down as the
cornerstones OF the edifce OF knowledge she pro-
fesses TO build up Tor the future.
1t was fundamental principle with all Christian
pnosophy as Wen as w R .n ena no6est pagan
first movable, the first element OF knowledge, the
very first among the intellectual data OF any true
OF knowledge Is being, He Is absolute and neces-
sary being, without whose intuitive perception
But, again, lust as false science calls Cod the
unknowable, and thus closes TO Him and the very
notion OF Hin the doors OF all her schools, so does
she deny the very notion OF cause and efficiency,
lest the human mind should hencefOrth be led to
conclude the existence of creator from the con-
tinualy present evidences OF design, wisdom,
power and love in every part OF the visible world.
Nay, your boosted science would have abjure
principles i Of ali knowledge and philosophy, lest
their use should periorce lead US back
to the KNOWLEDGE OF the God Of ages.
Since when mas the cultivated intellect OF Chrisen
dom, or even OF Pagandom, for that matter. con.
sented TO give the name OF science exclusively to
the observation and classification or natural
phenomenas When has it been agreed to that
philosophy. theology and jurisprudence should
Voluntarily or perforce descend from the place to
past past age had exalted them, in order to
see anatomy physics and chemistry en-.
coming generationss No! this cannot be. And
yet, now that the discourses delivered In Belfast
are coming to US IN authentic shape 1t is I'M
possible not to see that such is the issue
forced upon the intellect OF the age by the fore
most scientists. Again, for one, must enter my
OF men from whom have learned much. Theology
Is but poorly represented. among all the lights OF
the Church since Greg1ry Nyssen, oy SO 50 lame
sally condemned system Of the instrumentality Of
the body with respect to the soul is made to Offset
highest argument OF theology against modern
science And this Is all, or the best, that John
PRCDENTiUS.
Which IL Truef
! In the religious correspondence OF the HERALD
there are many sharp criticisms passed upon the
prevailing religious superstitions OF the times
Many of these are written by those who are
/ honest seekers after truth. There are one or two
points in Bible history In regard to the genealogy
and birth OF Christ, which would like to ask
Christians, ministers, theoIogans or any one else
to explain II they can. The point Is this, have
not either the writer OF Matthew's Gospel OF
Mary the mother Of Christ told an untruth In
regard to the genealogy and parentase OF Christ
Matthew says, The book OF the genera.
ton Of yesu, christ the son q David
this chapter to the sixteenth, the generation or
geneaogy OF Christ is traced from Abraham down
through Isaac, jacob, David. solomon, &c: to
Christ. In the eighteenth verse we read, when as
His mother Mary, was espoused TO Joseph, before
they came together, she was found with child oil
the Holy Ghost. Joseph, being just and true
man. was not pleased with this discovery, and not
to put her away privny. But while ne was consld.
ertng the. matter and ponderlng how to act, ne
had a dream in which some good angel satisfied
any wrong, and that whatever stories
sne had told him to be believed, and that the
Son she should bring forth should save His people
Now, what would like to have explained is
how Matthew can give the true generations or
Abraham to Joseph when Joseph was not His IA
Their? How Cnrst can be OF the seed OF David
becomes OF all the Old Testament prophecies
which affrm that He is to be the root and the
called tile son Of David, knew ner not TIL she had
brought forth her first-born Son, and he called His
name Jesus Il Joseph was no, !, The lathsr o.
first verse Of Matthew expressly declares Has
Mary, or Joseph, or Matthe ", or some OF the old
prophets OF the Old or New Testament, one or all
OF them deceived the people In regard to this mat.
teri Who Will tell ELI.
Ministerial and Church Movements.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The Rev. J. S. Foulk, pastor of the German Re-
formed church, Carlisle, Pa, has connected him.
self with the Presbyterian Church.
At the late meeting OF the Presbytery OF New.
castle the Rev. Mr.. Edwards, residing at George
town, Del, presented a certificate of his standing
in o Methodist Episcopal Conference in Indiana,
and was received as q member OF Presbytery.
The presbyterian Hymnal" is meeting with q
good sale, 90, ooo copies having been disposed OF
during the first month Of Its publication.
The Rev. DR.. Lansing and wife. the well known
missionaries OF the United Presbyterian Church In
Egypt sailed for that country on Saturday. They
are accompanied by Miss NJ. G. Lockhart, who