, 1875-12-19

know what refor1ns In It e proposes: how It ii u
b dealt with 60 that hs world. not being abe 70 get
elimin.so an t6st is iesenda1y, unsstsadh I'D, to
eliminate all this but to it henceforth in its true
| sense-that ia IN its ngurative seuse-aud not any
!opgeH ~ its literal sense @ a., as :, n.rrse of faets
| the story Of Adams fall
''sooner later, our experiences widens, We
mnst TINT the story is not true; must 1nerita
It never really happened, any Of it" It IS No more
~ histery @ t,A1 the neruyian aceouat Of aaneo
For little white, sven for generation or two, per
haps, m.n may hser he has begun TO doubt the ato-
ing holy waller, rendering himEeIf ftupid' Pascals
II .to1Z e salvation by Christ aoes with The story
"r. Aooay's account Of that talvatton WIS exactly
the old story, to which haye often adverted Of the
in her clsiln, said NJ Moody for the punishment Of
guilty mankind: God admits It. Jesus intercedes,
undertakes to bosr their punishment and signs an
Jesus n ths cross oa Calvary. Justi6e appears,
aud presents to Him His signed undertaking.. Jesus
IL he ID tss ~
action here described and in the hearty acceptance OF
the reease efesed by it,"
Mr. Moody might say this is cartcature q tho
story he il in the habit OF telling. do not know
whether he would or hot or whether it Is or not =
earieatu1e. But M Arncld says ne heard IT, and Il
true statcment coucted in rather moro popular Ian.
gua2o than is commonly used IN telling It, Of what
CLrtsans aoeept fundamental echene Of rcdemp-
tion-thc basis Of their belief. Never lot deny
to this story" says Mr. Arnold, "power pathos, or
treat with hostility ideas which hAyo entered deep
into the Life Of Ch11stendon. But the story is nbt
true" And to show, suppose, how to trcat It, not
with hostility but in friendly way, he goes On thus
It never really happened. These peysonages never
did meet together and SPEAK. And act IN the manner
related The personagcs Of the Christian Heaven and
their conversations more matter Of fact than
the person1ges of the Greek Olympus and their con
TersAHons. Sir Robert Philmote reeks to lie up the
Church Of Engl8r1 to belief in the personality OF
Sxtan and hn might well seek to tie it up to be
lief IN the personality Of Tiaphone. Satan and Till
phcne alike not real persons, but shadows thrown
by man gait aud terror4.'
To say alte- this that Mr. Arnold does not teeTe IN
miracea, nor think miracles ne<4aaxry TO his new
Christianity, ought to be. t. 70 say very little It
Ii only adding unh- -clus1. Nor need ANYTHING be
4dded to ahow-as is proposed to mrselt-with what
freedom Mr.. Arnold handles his subject. But what
bound add in mere farhess to him ia that the
quotations abore given represent but one side ef him
is ready 10 go in the destruction Of what
1se' They nv w none lone It III oi tso ssarerity, the
aectioate rersenco the perfect intellectual serious
ness, and tue brilliant intellectual eoEt With whtoA
the book snd its pretaco abound With skcptictsn, in
the common xneaniuG Of that word, he has little in
common. he is not, perhaps. great admircr Of
Mess. Moody and a1utey, but he reserves invectisa
and satire not for then but for such rerolutionists
and fretthinkers" as Prof. Clifford the mathematician
Who told in The fortni9hy Resitc th@s ChEistani-
ty is awful pague which has DESTROYED two cyin-
xations and but barely failed to say such promise Ut
good ~ is now struggling to Live among uan."