Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-26

into existence from noth,no RI, .,
~nss oid ne speaks To nothing.
BOT. they say, God 10 Infinite. L4u,
1t What Is itl Il d absoiuts conS =.
sioniess. what 10 msnf-s condition.
90 oeinR. De must have food, water.
ar not GOD Is cohditiouless- He can
no. Dc affected, cannot be touched.
oont want anything. You eau helo
=! ne may De In want; you may make
nun happier: Bot you can do nothing
i.I uoo- lou cannot even please or
u,spIease MIN any more than you can
SieAse sne principle OF the lsver or de-
Irsn' an declined plane. What follows?
ne only possible religion of Humanity
- 70 neip one another. We are familiar
Nhn zoo, and the reason il that We
mase ood ourselves. Smiths God ia
sue oiRRest Smith be can think OF an
,osai smith with ell Smiths good quail
.iss ana with all Smiths bad qo-lI,iss
'o's Out. The savage God ia SAVAGE.
ana the Rensieman's GJd Ia a gentle
God. oNi
The Episcopal creed ventures to do.
nhs God more tuliy-it calls Him 1.-THE
one hvinS and true God, everlasting.
without bIds, parts or passions" Thls
10 an excollent description of nothing
Woro painting OF a vacuum. Yet tais
vacuum made the earth In seven DAYS.
and, though without body. was tired.
walked In garden and was refreshed
ne 10 passionless, yet He is angry AT
the wicked; He gets Jealous, and He
visits inquiry even 10 the third and
IoQrtn generation. There ID nothing of
this God. OF course He is everlasting. !.
because there 10 nothing to wear out.
rne next thing in this creed is d ola
ration OF special providence-every
thing that happens Ia decreed by God
Tor his eternal purpose. The clergy
cannot give mp special providence, be-
caase then the clcrgy's occupation
wo1ld be gone. Unless they have infia-
ence with the Almighty, they are no use.
Let rs be honest. What il there in
history to warrant this belief in special
providencer Why is ii that justice does
not always triumph How do you 40
count for the fact that innoeenc, Is not
a perfect shieldS Where was God when
a billion men through countless years
toiled and suffered in slavery? Where,
when martyrs were tortured and slain
Tor his sakeF Where when the best and
wisest OF the world lanquished in pris-
oner's chaissl Be honest nov.
But, they say, God made as and
we should thank Him." Who should
thank Himf The slave wO nan? The
orphan1 The uan born tainted with
insanity The one eaten with cancer?
fhs poor colored people who through
tao hundred years saw the cross of
Christ transformed into a whipping
postr The ministers say. "Can God
forgive man?' | say, Can man for
z We God?"
don't believe in special providence.
Inc less man relies on the Infinite, and
Tue more he relies on himself, the bet
tor. Man must be the providence of
man. lt is statistics that is killing the
belief In special providence. People
earn that out of a million people 80
many will die each year that 30 many
people do this, and 30 many people do
HAT, until there 10 room for only cold
facts. Everything In ma
lure bears a relation TO everything else,
Infringes on everything else, modifies
svers thing else.
The next thing Is the old doctrine of
he fall of man by the sin of our first
parents. l don't believe that Adam
l4d right to act for me in that mat
'er. didn't vote for him didn't even
know he was running. l wouldn't have
Voted for him II had. I don't like
hun. Who made the devil who tempt
ID Adam Why didn't God put his po-
Toe around the garden and keep him
,ut in the first place, instead of keeping
Adam and Eve out after they had
sinned