New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-22
THE NEW IDEAL,

Prof felLr Adler al lard Hall
Standard Hall in Broadway near Forty-sec.
ond-st. crowded TO OVERLOOKING yesterday forenoon
by large number of prominent jews and considers.
BILE sprnkiing OF persons OF other religious beliefs who
now meet there every Sunday morning to listen to lie
advanced views Of Prof Felix Adler OF Cornell Unyer.
sity, aud OF Rabbi Adler, formerly Of the Temple
OF EMANUEL Prof. Adler speaks without notes. and
calmly and deliberately handles the subject on which
he dscOurses. only seldom rising what mi ht be called
enthusiasm though at all tes impressive IN his deiiy.
cry. Yesterday his subject I" The New Ideav and
included in what ne said was the following:
great conflict Ia raging The battle between science
and the old religious beliefs has been wase1 Zoe
years and years. aud is not by over yet We
entering new age with new conceptions and new
ideas These conceptions called the new ideal, oler
rich mine Of generous motives and make US stronger aud
greater men, The old ideal especially that VI the middle
ages, is passing steadily from among IL q
supernatural ransccndenal idea which regarded nan
as an exile from the kingdom on high hoping continually
there II he only passed bis lf here prayer
and devotion aud dismissed from LIS mind al earthly
cares and troubles slowly and by degrees have we
learned 10 appreciate nature in It's true light We have
found that the human body is not allen Ia the mind
within IT, The new ideal akes us regard ourselves "a
The sovrrsicns and creotor Of rho world a, ga ns
onward TO new aud better thoughts, whe the old ideal
SIMPLY called Tor prayer and suppieail9 IA these sap
pcatons request often made TO the Deity rs i he
were Il man. Prof Adler here read the Substance Of
several liDGoo Payer also those 0f Jews and Cstlans
in which the Divinity called upon 10 have pity tie
suppIieant yId ne you'd bring him an OGcring There
also prayers FOR RAIN FOR good crops, and plenty O
American churches to-day prayers are offered on cer;ala
ocCasoD that must be considered not only an insult 10
our intelligence, hut also an insult 10 Tie OMnSclcn ALI
Providence who rules hC earth. When people pray
In time OF dTOuth for moderate rain or al any time
pray reasonable weather, the modern view ot tie
new ideal enters its emphatic protest against these
prayers. Tae laws Of nature are never broken. Fhe
rains and winds follow their hidden course regr Of
prayers The world - cosmos. ana 10 pray ics Us dl~
Arrangement il simply GOnstrOus. IL IS 10 pray ot rs
virtual Iestrt, tieu The very who profess 10 be-
Neyc IN Advise Great Raer are the very hot 10 cHe
their professions by Dduiging In such pray els Iaey
ought 10 know that the disagrJngJrcn. a. SIN &c part
OF tie worlds machinery would destroy tie haraOnoes
working OF the whole
The ideal teaches that as time proceeds al giabe
better mankind VIII submit with better dignity AID
greater foritdc 10 the inevitable n teach 10, TO tok
forward IN yet 90 20 race Oi men o ghtffnEi
stronger than those eyCG seen, Ia tn remote iGtGe
these Will reap what "" have sOWD and they VII
gtner the fruiticn oi abcrs. The old local trofessi
10 see III TIE past ages the Neiy best tAt WIS ever gwen
to man. Tie Oracics then s"kc, ana Wbatctog te az
tered regarded upcr,hGbir tTfh. Not - says
The Ideal. II mas the privilege 60 fcts ~ te@r
true light and 10 distinguish tie laws of iig aud gI0lg
IL does not throw CONTEMPT upon Tie entire pai, bnI
while gnUgng il at its value il nevertheless p.st0
the fu.ulo with greater hope Tao circle ia Hhica ve
move is as yet wide enough, but mankind negnso
understand that H. more we advance under ne iste
u0n ideal, tie nIOle cSactnE Vii acise ar
dunes, not only citizens of great county,, Dut .
members VI the great brotherhood VI man.