St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-10
THE FULLNEss OF TIME.


And so do the newspapers give the drift OF
public thought and opinion. 1t is notable
fact in this connection that in the daily
newspapers there is, at this time, such a
general discussion of religious topics. Never
before in the history of secular journalism
has there been such universal tendency to
discuss questions pertaining to matters Of
religious thought and belief. Heretofore the
religious field has been occupied by the re-
ligiOus press, only to be occasionally invaded
by some magazine which venturedupon dis
cussiOn Of new topic in religious matters
OF a review of some unusually interesting
book on theology. Now the daily news
papers not only publish the sermons of en-
inent divines, like TAI.MAGE or BEECHER,
as they are delivered in the course of each
Sundays services, but a great deal of space
is given each week to the sermons and re-
ligiOus discussions of the local pulpitS.
Everything bearing on religious subjects,
from the sermon OF TALMAGE to the lee
ture of INGERsOLI is eagerly sought after
by the newspaper-reading world
The moral of all this is that the human
Zation of the intellectual dominion to which
it was heir in the beginning. When man
was first created he was proclaimed the
master of this planet. He received from the
Divine hand a grant of power, infinite in its
scope and value. This decree was not in
consequence of his physical ability to sus-
tain his supremacy, but because of the in
TOLL xxrhi oh hn oil of oil fa1
beings, was endowed. This dominion, how
ever, was a right announced and not pos
session bestowed. And yet how Indifferent
he was to the inheritance which was spread
out before him, and how limited his range
of vision and knowledge of its wealth and
splendors was illustrated by the I'M
numbered centuries which passed while all
the time his eyes and ears were closed
to the truths and harmonies of the material
world. For thousands of years the human
race made no effort to advance itself along
the shining and celestial ways of scientific
truth. The order of things proclaimed by
GOD was totally reversed. 1t was blind,
undeveloped man possessing no just con-
ception OF the relations which he bore to
unconscious of the wealth and do
minion and glory on all sides, and
under his feet and over his head
all his without the knowledge to reach
forth his hand and possess them. For ages
aspiring thought was restrained and enslaved
by religious intolerance.
But COPS judgments must be fulfilled
sooner or later. Mans intellectual domin-
ion which was ordained in the beginning
must be established. The impulse toward
scientific researches first aroused the intel
lectual world. AS the discoveries of science,
one by one, have gradually lifted the veil
of darkness that has hung so long
over the human mind. floods of
strange light have poured in. With
the advent of each new scientific truth has
come knowledge on all subjects like a sun
burst on the morning of new day. Freed
from the despotism of human dogmas the
intellect of man has at last risen to a full
consciousness of its own sovereignty and
seeks to prepare itself for the dominion it
has attained, SO that by a proper exercise of
its own powers it may promote the glory
and the happiness of the human race. Thus
it is that the human mind is eager to grasp
everything relating to itself and, by sub
uniting to analytical investigation all the
creeds and beliefs of the churches and the
atheism of infdelity, test for itself and de-
termine the truthfulness or falsity Of each.
That is the meaning of the present hunger
ing and thirsting after religious discussion.
This craving of the human intellect shall be
filled by and by when the fullness of time
shall have come.