The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-25

holding plan the more decisive Is the evidence o.
definite thought, ardent feeling and energetic per-
gonaliiy That the Creator should be person - sug
gested by the fact that personality Is confessedy the
highest form Of being
against God. They have sinned against duty, and
then they have snned against God. IL God is per-
son, they have erievsd, dishonored aud offended HIM
as truly as they have wronged their own souls
QUESTION THE DAY.
need not say that shs question OF our day Is EN-.
phaticaly this, Whether fah is any longer required
whether has Its work. Al least tor thinking
ana cultivated men, and must now be abandonedr II
Is true this is no new question: but Is Chris
tanity itself But IL comes 10 US In new forms, aud
with many it has become the confident assertion and
the shiveriIg tear Of not few, that whatever may
have been OF the past henceiorth must stand
by manhood or thought or culture or philosophy, and
longer Can and no longer need 10 stand by faith
amount necessity TO man. Tho more man advances in
culture will IL be and the more evil
dent that faith essential to his perfection and his
We assert that II exctes to thought and that
its tendency ~ 10 quicken the intellectual lie
ATHBIsrc SCIENCE ON TRIAL
Atheistc and thcistc science low en- phnticaliy
on trial the tribunal OF worlds thinking and ex
perience. Ii true that atheism IN science
so confident so courteous in its own creed
tile al the present moment On the other hand,
II forced to confess so frankly as now that
atheism relieves the mind OF not single burden Of
my stery which theism involves, and that self
universe OF death matter is as difficult 10 &C
cept and harder hold than seliexstent and Great
ing spirit While there swarms OF NOISY specialists
In every department OF thought VINO MI The air with
their chattering there Is everywhere strong under
the part Of sober philosophers that matter aud
spirit that force and law alike are best explained by
personal thinker
FAITH AND THE KAorIoNs.
1t is by faith that man stand IN hle sensbili-
ties Faith includes large element OF feeling. In
the Christian II is pre-emncptly emotional for
the that fixed Person who is al once
tho most perfect aud tho most unpretending tue
loitest and the iowes the mildest and the sternest
the most orgiving and the most uncompromlsing the
ideal and tue most real the most divine and the
most human VINO was ever imagined or ever lived.
This leads add that faith The personal Christ
is essential faith In II significantly said OF
the Master that He knew what IN man and yet he
loved aud trusted IL is esteemed IN these days
the highest achievement that he should learn TO dis
trust In order that no may manage mon
Personal faith IN Christ stimulates to the finest Gull
turc whether manners, literature or art IL Is by
faith that man stands strongly and wisely in duty.
Duty not such II 1t does not blossom into faith No
man can be loyal conscience who Is not also loyal
to the loving and living Jesus.
II a man in his character stands best by faith the
same will DO OF The life which hts lath shall form
Ii faith is the condition Of perfected and redeemed
manhood much Is the condition OF successful
lie.
Faith will give n man definite plan OF life. Tho
believer in personal Christ knows what he lives for
ana aims at. The example OF his Master IS always
clear and his precepts are explicit HIS spirit cannot
be IN lstaken If his service Involves self-deDal.
The speaker closed with an eloquent address OF ad-
vice and exhortation to the graduating class.