Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1882-03-16
No. T..
CHURCH OF THE UNITY.
The Invitation to its Pastor, Rev. Geo.
G. Min, to Take a Rest.
Correspondence Globe-Democrat

! Correspondence Globe Democrat
| 1t seems quite proper that you should
publish, as you did, a special dispatch from
Chicago relating to the action of the Church
of the Unity dismissing Rev. Geo. c. Min,
and also gives his view and cause of COM
plant. He seems to have led reputable
/ life, and is q good man and believed in good
ness, like Felix Alder. There seemed. how
ever, to be hitch somewhere-something
like this: He obtained a congestion of the
brain, and came out in a sermon giving up
faith in God and Immortality and the entire
idea OF q supernatural revelation. And now
he complains of the action of the church.
since it may prevent him from preaching in
other churches than that of the Unity. But
/ why does he want to preach at all? What
call has he to preach Bob Ingersoll don't
whine because no pulpit is open to him. Let
Mr.. Min seek the forum, not the pulpit, to
deliver the twice-told tale OF unbelief.
/ Tom Paine had better belief than Min,
for the former declared his firm belief in
God and a future state of rewards and pun
I ishments.
1t would be an Improvement on Min, for
the Church of the Unity to hire a reader to
give them Tom Paines Age of Reason rather
than hear a man preach who had no God, no
prayer, no faith in immortality. 1t is only
though he had left some sect because he did
not know what he believed
! He seems to have been taken up by the
Unity church of Chicago ON a venture.
While preaching there he seems to have
had access to radical and agnOstic literature
which shook him up considerably, and now
he finds that he don't believe anything of
God or mans future state and denies
all the great doctrines Of Claiming and
others of the Unitarian faith accept as vital
and essential
He discredits the Bible as divine thing.
He denies there is any such thing possible as
a miracle Christ is not his lord and master.
He has no allegiance to the Christian religion
as such, and yet whines over the fact that
the Unity Church does not want to hear him
preach.
The manly way to do, and the way to
command respect, would be to say, Il do not
believe in the Christian religion, as taught
by the Unitarian Church, and do not be-
lieve in Christianity at all as system or a
revelation I do not think God exists and
do not think man has any existence after the
death of the body, and so cannot preach and
believing in goodness I ought not to
preach"
This should be the position, of Min, and
men would grieve over his weakness and
respect his honesty.
But when he undertakes to preach with a
heart empty of all the foundations of faith,
and with an intellect that has been beWil-
dered by denial and doubt, until it is but the
shadow or the symbol of CHASTITY mental
weakness he is doing I'M justice to himself,
and bringing down upon himself the con-
tempt of the honest intidel and the compass
sion and pity of the Christian believer.
Rev. Geo. G.. Min has a right to believe
what he pleases but he has no right to claim
to preach in any pulpit.
The Church of the Unity took him up and
hired him for year to preach for them, but
he denied that he was Unitarian.
The Unity Church dealt blindly, as it were,
in future options for the year, and when it
called for delivery of good sound gospel
which Mr. George c. Min thrust upon the
church rotten, damaged article that had
been rejected upon inspection And he now
bitterly complains because the church is not
satisfied to take deluge of doubts and chaff
and husks for the genuine article.
The next newcomer to Unitarianism ought
| to work before the mast awhile before he is
given command of the ship. There is too
much catching on by these fellows that
shift from one sect to another.
Sceptism has it's curious cycles. There is
periodicity to infdelity. The present time
is rife with half scientific, half-rational
mode of discussion which lands the weak
and half trained intellect into the quagmires
of an infidelity which is full of audacity and
assertion, mingled with an assumed contempt
of those who hold fast to the sound doctrins
which Jesus taught.
Lord. Bacon said: Il had rather believe
all the fables in the Legend and in the Tai
mud and the Koran, than that this univers-
al frame is without mind" "a little philos-
ophy inclineth mans mind to atheism; but
depth in philosophy bringth mems minds
about to religion"
Bismarck says: "There is only one greater
| folly than that of the fool that says in his
heart "there is no God" that is the folly OF
people that says in its heart that it does not
know whether there is God or not"
The waves Of infdelity may dash and
roar, and the dynamite OF speculation may
topple down some human structures OF faith
but the everlasting foundation OF truth, re-
ligion and God shall remain forever un-
shaken, and shall stand in all their original
strength and power to shelter human hearts
and lead them upward.