Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-11

Gross, COrrupt1ng and Diabolical Repre-
sentatfon of Hell-Man's Punishment one
of the Affections, not a Machine of Sui
phur and Fire-Christ Infinite Within
Finite Limits-Other Orthodox Beliefs
Denied and Controverted.
New YoRK, Oct 0.-The autumn meeting
of the New York and Brooklyn association
of congregational churches was opened this
morning at Park Congregational church,
Brooklyn. Rev. j. G. Roberts, of Rochester
avenue church, offciated as moderator, and
Rev. Mr.. Stiles acted as temporary scribe.
The following is from the Brooklyn Eagles
report of the proceedings:
RKv.sEMR.i BEEcHERs
Who has been assigned to open the di s
cussion of the subject of spiritual barbar-
ism. made it the occasion for announcing
his withdrawal from membership of the
associ at elivered an elabor a
exposition of his beliefs res oecti the
doctrines of the B IDLE and Christianity.
He assigned as reason for withdrawing
from the association that as a Christian
gentleman he could not afford to lay on
anybody the res ponsibility of his views.
He could not affor5 especially, to put the
association in such position that they
were obliged to defend him. He could
not make them responsible in any
way, and therefore he now, here in tn 9
GREATEST LOVE AND SYMPATHY
laid down his membership, and should 90
forth, not to be separated from them, but
really to be nearer them. He should do
everything for them. He never was in
warmer personal sympathy with them than
he now was, but he laid down the response
bility that they had borne. He took it off
them and put it on himself. Mr.: Beecher
explained that he made this exposition in
order to meet the loose general represen-
to what he believed and taught He held to
the view that had been presented by
PAGAN GREEK BARBARIANs.
One of the most. barbaric, that is infant
lie, ignorant conceptions, was the impas-
sivity of Coda conception that perfection
of character required that being should
not be susceptible to pain of any kind, to
sorrow, Or to suffering. The divine hero
ism must stand in the power Of God to
suffer and it is the very root and force of
the atoning of life and death of Jesus
Christ. Right over On the other side was an
other element, springing from barbaric ma
tions, and not from anesthetic. namely that
GOD Is CLOTHED WITH HUMAN PASSIONS.
Terms of that kind were not wanting in
the old testament, but men had constructed
their own conception of God from the ex-
ample of their animal inclinations and
appetites, not from the examples of their
reason and their moral sense, and SO we
had barbarous conceptions, and that was
spiritual barbarism. The whole. view of
God which was laid down in the confession
of faith of the Westminster school and in
relation to DEGREES in
relation to the whole process and
operation of divine grace, Mr.. Beecher
held that view of the character of God to
stand over against the representation of
God as made by the Lord Jesus Christ,
AS FR1GHTFUL GARGoN
stood over against the head of an Apollo in
the heather mythology. He held it to be
a monster in the place Of loving master
and master of love. He rejected it with
an impetus that touched the very founda-
ton of his soul. Then the doctrine
of mans moral and physical inability to
obey the laws of God he rejected. He also
rejected the representations of future pun
ishment which were gross and physical,
that were made from sensuous Roman
schools. He believed in future punish
ment. He believed that the wholesome
and restraining influence of that doctrine
had been very largely destroyed by sab
shutting slaughter house notion.
GROSS, oARNAL, CoRRUPTING AND DIABoLIcAL
REPRESENTATION OF HE'LL
and the sufterings of those who were SUBJ
jected. To them suffering would be not
bodily Us he held, not mental according to
the laws of moral sensibility, and all the
affections not machine of sulphur and
fre-a deluge of devils and all manner of
announcementsepieom and repr esent-
ed in the art of Angeles ''last Judgment"
and represented more abominably and in
excusably by Cornelius and the German
school, that was barbaric. He re-
garded also the whole doctrine of
ORIGINAL SIN
as found in the will in Adam as being
barbaric; that is as concession of men
that were as yet ignorant and uneducated
on the subject. 1t was not used single
time in the whole scope of instructions of
all ages of the old testament. You could
not find it in the old testament. You can
not look through all the te1ings of the
four gospels and find single passage
that. except by wide inference and miscon
struction, can be appliad to it. You
can find it only in the Pauline writ
ings. He accepted without analysis
the trinity. Any attempt to divide the
functions was inutile. He believed in a
providence who ever rules human life by
and through natural laws. Christ was inf
maze within finite limits and in taking his
place as man, he became subject to the
laws of time, space and matter. He be-
lieyed fully and enthusiastically, without
break. or single line of tremulous
alteration. in the divinity of Christ.
Christ was God msnifest in the flesh.