, 1877-02-25

%snder In attacking the position which liberal
Christians hold. he then read from tract
some one had sent lin. This Inserted that
Liberal Christianity is no ChrissiauiiY at all.
h.,t merely an organization Of men who are ID
bo.ine o to turn the truth Of God to lie" When
rw,s FINE SPECIMEN OF ORTHODOX lNIELLI-
GESCE
.5,ds nm with warning to all such believers to
tnrn from destruction that they mar not q be
~ :into the lake of fire and birthstone pre-
ard for the devil and his angels it is well
!urorth while to ask if such kind OF courteous
Christian charity, to say nothing Of the remark
shIe genius for misfnterpretation, is the resul.
- evangelical teaching, where arc the blessed
fruits! >
his severity Of language, It cannot be said OF
hin, that be is personal and vitupcrative. He Is
an scarcely be said Of the other side in their
treatment Of lin.
WHEN NE Is CALLED A BLAsPHEMEE
for his criticism Of what he terms ''Moody's
God, he explains very. truly, both rs matte!
Of explanation and rs fayt, that it is not God
thought Of God. as different from the true God
ss lie depth OF the infinite abyss from the
hsehrs: heights OF hearcn.''
# is amusing TO hear the orthodox fling at
Nr Savage 1or his conversion from orthodoxy
~ T]nitarianism. Amusing, because they seem
to forget that it is poor rule that won't work
10th WAYS, and that the iiberalists on whose
tide the culture Of the day stands, may have
Asir fling At orthodoxical converts, aud say Of
tie matter, ''Vcry true, Alr. Savage has been
BACKWARD. DR.. osgood and Mr.. Hepworth, both
formerly Cuitarians, according to all liberal
culture, have been
CONVERTED BACKWARDS"
Is said at the start, think it Is high time
that the other side, the liberal Christian's side.
III ka$ $,ff aS,nI~ %1,nrv
III cultivated thinkers Of the advanced school
have borne quito long enough the results Of the
INSTRUMENTATION that comes from lack OF
knowledge. What ". R. Greg says in his Greed
Of Christcndon, all liberal thinkers on this side
of the Atlantic may echo ms I protest. 1t is in
only disclaiul any position CT feeling Of antags-
onism Of Christianity: he says, but IL claim
to have written this book Oh behalf
and in the cause OF the religion
date the pretcnsions Of those whom mold to
have specially misconceivcd aud obscu!cd that
religion. to be its exclusive or richt1ul repre-
eeDrAtives. hold that thousands OF the truc5t
servants Of our Lord arc 20 be found among
those who decline to wear what is the fashion 10
pronounce His livery. with the grotcs3ue and
hideous facings Of each successive age
resent Us an arrogant assumption
the hatitual practicc Of refusing the
name Of Christian to all who shrink away from
Or assail The errors and corruptlons with which
lis official defenders have over1aId the faith of
Christ. And 1 can find no words Of adequate
condemnation for
THE sH41low 1SsoIEScE OF MEN
Who a-c not ashamed to fling the name of
atheist y on all whose conceptions OF the Deity
src purer, lolticr, more Christian than their
own. Those who dare 10 dogmatise about His
nature or His purposes prove by that very da1-
tng their hopeless incapacity even to grasp the
krlrit or comprehend the conditions Of that
mighty problem" \. +.