The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-05-06
RELIGIOUS.
A Manly Confession.

The Nineteenth Century Club.
of New York city is An organizstiof
of advanced" thinkers. and alta
recent meeting as special guests
there were present DR.. McCosh,
Col. Robert Ingersoll, John Fiske,
Chauncy NJ. Depew and others. The
chief speaker, was Prof. Fiske.
who discoursed on the "Cosmic
conception of God" ventilating his
peculiar anti-Christian ideas to the
great delight of those in sympathy
with his theistic notions. He was
followed by Chauncy N. Depew who.
in his first sentence, acknowledged
the more than doubtful propriety Of
being "unequally yoked with unbe-
LEVERS" and took occasion in very
manly way,to deela . Is firm u poss
to continue in the "6M paths" As
reported by the Sun, he said:
81 never felt so absolutely out of
place. lam a practice man, over
whelmed with the cares of business.
1t is excsedisgly difficult for me to
get on the plane of philosophis
thought. Tam practical man. I
believe in the Old Testiment and the
New Testiment precisely as they are
presented by Christianity. am In
antagonism to Mr.. Wakeman, who
dismisses the Bible as entirely q
mass of legend, land with Prof. Fiske,
wis accepted it with an interpreter
ton entirely his own.
at was the atheism of France that
taught license for liberty and led the
French revolution. Where are
those old PHILOSOPHERS and the eld
philosophers They are dead, whiIe
Christianity survives. The school
of atheism led to dispair. Material.
ism soon found that every violation
of the moral law could 60 on con.
sistently with its teachings. So
pantheism and positlvism have fol-
lowed only to be destroyed. and nov
we have the school of humanity and
the cosmic philosophy coming close
to the borders of Christianity as
expounded by John Fiske.
"They tell us there is no moro
Creator only cosmic dust. Who
made the dust9 There Is only pro.
toplasm indeed. Who made proto-
plasm? They tell us ofaeyoiution
from dust to monkey and then to
man but all the scientists have new
er found the missing link.-rhe
simple gospel of the humble son OF
a carpenter. preached by twelve
fishermen, has survived the centur-
les and outlives all other philosc-
peies of 1900
II am not posted in the terminol
ogy of tho PHILOSOPHERS. believe
them to be of little use to reach the
hearts and to influence the action of
simple men. There is no liberty
that lasts in the, world, and there 10
no government which has liberty in
it that lasts, that does not recognize
the Bible. What is the object Of all
theology 1t is to reach the human,
heart and to control the actions OF
men as they are.
"How many of rs can even under
stand what philosophers says? You
might take the whole Stock Ex-
change and read Kant to them and it
would BE utterly incomprehensible
to them. Not so with the teachings
of the Golden Rule. They could un-
derstand at least wat that means.
1 read Mr.. Wakesman's pamphlet
last night. They tell us God must
disappear; that prayer is begging;
that the Holy Communion IL canni.
balism. When did such a religion
send out missionary? When you
show me colony,of 10000 people
who have come to live decently by
its teachings L may believe it. But
1 say now that the Christian faith
of my mother is good enough for
ms. If we believe this faith. what
harm2 If we believe it, and thereby
do wrong, what of our future2''