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rowness, ltS DlRotry. lts aversion 10 now iiRht'
and the blindness which makes 1t see enemies
in its best friends and destruction in Its only
road to safety. Indeed they are as severe with
this stupid. old-foRy Church as they are re-
spectful and even deferential to the modern
| science which is making war upon 1t. Those
| whose views have undertaken to expound."
says the Rev. Mr.. M'Farlan. welcome ac-
cordingly the attacks which are made by the
students OF science. natural and biblical. upon
| the dogmatic theology OF the past. They be-
| lieve that painful though those attacks may be
| to many devout Christians. they must ultimate
| ly bo beneficial to the religion OF Christ They
| will result. they perceive. in the demolition OF
| those doctrines. artificial and unveriflable.
which have well-nigh concealed Christs simple
gospel that man has Father in heaven who is
seeking to make him perfect as he is perfect"
MinglinR with the rationalism and pantheism
| OF these dscourses we ind an admixture OF
| pure positivism. In his sermon on Corporate
Immortality. which well deserves the place OF
honor assigned to It by the editor. Principal
Caird afflrms that the key to the riddle OF hu
man life. the explanation OF our nature. Its
boundless hopes. inexhaustible desires. splen-
did ideals. and dissatisfaction with the best II is
able to attain. Is this: That he who lives nobly
and wisely. who rises above the narrow life OF
sense to identify himself with that which is
universal and infinite is sharer in a life Of hu-
manity that is never arrested and shall never
die" 1t is no mere figure OF speech. he says.
whom We speak OF personality which oompre-
hends within it the life OF nations as we'll as OF
individuals. The most We can Individually do
is littlei but. slight though 1t be. II the work
we do is real and noble work. II is never lost; 1t
Is taken up into and becomes part OF that i'm
mortal life to which all the good and great OF
the past. every wise thinker. every true and
ha,r fair and tptI mi frit hau
contributed. and which. never hasting. never
resting. onward through the ages is advancing
to its contamination"
These are not quotations from the writings OF
Auguste Comte; they are extracts from a SER
mon by the Very Reverend Principal OF the
University OF Glasgow.
But what is the conclusion OF the whole mat
teri After these emancipated preachers have
told their hearers what not to believe. eau
toned them against dogmatism. sacerd dotalism.
ecclesiasticism. eectarianism. and Pharisaism.
and exhorted them to welcome with docilty and
gratitude all the new light and new truth that
modern science may offer them. they have not
yet told them what they must do to be saved
And this. after all. with Scotch Presbyterians.
as with men OF other races and religions. Is the
question in which they are most interested and
on which they are most anxious to get the ad-
vice OF their religious instructors. We know
how John Knox answered this question. We
know how his worthy spiritual children, the
martyrs and confessors of the heroic period Of
Scotch Presbyterianism. answered 1t. The an
swer OF the Westminster divines Is known and
read OF all men. Wherever in the Scotland OF
to dav thora r.moino a nra.chor ,rbo unhold.
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hear what these more progressive and broad
minded teachers have TO offer in the Dlaoa NJ IL
Rev. Principal Card is again the spokesman:
For the heaven We seek yxe pees M, ex aw.x or
the wings of imagination to some unknown region Of
eeiesuai enjoyment where we shah summer high In
o' wnere' LOST IN serapnc con-
wa an Al, foo., -, na go, h. ,hn aoa .,, ar h"
elements Of ,b., rorious turs in which s hone on. s,y
to share are here within II, and around N, in
our very hands and in our mouths The Divine and
in SONS ,.r'or no,n, ~ tt. ~, ~. '
anywhere else than on this earth of our, nor could .ny
local transition or physical transformation bring Him
nearer God here. above beueah, around and the
only change that is needed to bring us to the beadnc
VISION o ms presence is the quekenins and clarifying
al, ..a n. anu e',vo'. 'he.e' ie' pure nsh.
hs,rsn unn,d s hsr. Tho VIZ a
become re,plendent with n divine glory The eternal
world is not world beyond time and the grave. 1t
embraces time; it is ready to realize itself un.
der all the forms OF temporal things Its light and
power are h'eht everywhere waiting for human souls
Ss =, ,s,. " u,saa a.s
r,d,nc. ,hs common life -, MAN An, .o ,hs .nnrao
aim q, chri,,isn erds,vor ia no, \, IooL
conceivable heaven beyond the skies, and to spend our
life in preparing for it, but it is to realize that latent
heaveh those possibilities OF spiritual good that unde
n,ns nsu0m ., rEn.eVushess BUSINESS ana io'e ana uuth
the change which a.st,' hrins. mh., a, ~ ' So
spent hi, life in irving to make tbi, world hesr can
never DC uhpreparea Tor another
II. as Prof. Knight afflrms. this sort OF pulpit
teaching Increasingly prevails among the
Scottish clergy. then the Church OF Scotland has
indeed driited lar from her ancient moorings.
An Americ"n' Experience In the Egyptian
Army.