The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-26

tnIlsuailly, saw INC Ilplu NV "hi"h
mems thoughts were cast. and in tins
crude or prescientiic age he found the |
key which unloekpl the times ana made |
clear the way in gh ch the world took It's
greatest genius, US greatest teacher.
She, satisfied with the conception drawn |
before her day, clasps it to her bosom as II |
to defend 1t from hands that would de-
spoil. He by this penetrating, historic |
study saw that all was safe, that IN the
great conservatism Of nature nothing was
ever really lost--that instead OF dead sys-
tens, as was supposed, their bodies
were absorbed, and live again. a
higher life in nobler form, and that
when you stir M natures murky depths,
and resurrect her systems sleeping beneath
the moss OF centuries. the same old truths
still I've and bloom, and
make undying music in the world.'
Robert, feeling the irresistible march
and pressure OF the new instincts,
the new forces which life and
thought had called into being, was OF the
kind that moves the world. Catherine, q
good, gentle wife, noble woman, inn
PEELED by no squirting genius, satisfied with
the present--a narrow, but strong,
woman, was Of that kind, which holds the
world. 1t 10 no wonder they both ielt
deeply, and yearncl Tor light TO ilumin-
ate the dark chasm which lay
yawning for their domestic happiness.
Robert, with q change Of views, must re-
sign the ministry. Such changes cause
pain, especially 10 sensitive nature
when third parties aro interested and de-
pendent Others might have gone ON,
but so delicate were hls scnsibilities that
nothing could have induced him TO have
relied upon his own powers OF evasion or
10 have trusted 10 his flock for lorbear-
ance. With him conviction was the con-
science OF the mind.
After he had quit the pulpit and left his
flock does he become an atheism NO. II
would have been more reasonable Tor
man TO have denied that there was an
atmosphere, or for a swimming tlsh 10
| have denied that there was water than Tor
mind constructed like Elscmero'sto have
| denied the existence Of q God. Docs he
become materalis,2 No; all things were
| 10 him but Of the thoughts
OF the one Independent, scli-oXisting Mind
| Docs he degenerate morally? No, lac -
strong even under the siren spell OF
| Eupcnie dc MELVILLE. He had simply eX-
changed the Christ Of dogma for'thc Jesus
Of history. Although traditional Chris
! tianity had yielded 10 the barbed shafts OF
criticism, the deep, never failing spring OF
| religion continued 20 well up in his heart
from source way beneath where criti-
/ cisms can ever reach, rs IL always has
and always will flow up into the hearts oil
| honest men.
The same problems still confronted him
| that c0nironts every thoughtful man; How
can We elevate the vast masses OF men IN
all our cities who are seething in wretch
cdnpss and degradalion2 How can We
penetrate where laWlcssness, anarchy anu
| strife IL fostcred-ihis great wilderness oil
sin where no gospel pcnotraies-and he,
| like the man Of Nazareth, went 10 work to
do what lac could. IL was only howcver,a ~
Elsmcrc's long, glunt form lay PROSTATE
dying; his hollow eyes, In their lar
mirrorcd depths" revealing worlds oi love
that Catherine, thinking Of his seli-do
mails, his patient toll 10 the point OF swoon
| ing for degraded humanity, could realize
| that the truest love Is that which carc'
not Tor recognition or reward, that God
| works In man by which alone We know
Him aud can approach Him. that Go,
| never has, does not now aud never VII
care Tor the letter, sit is only the spin
that quickcneth."
The Rev. Hebcr Newton says "I
may and may not be The dangerous bool
which Il was pronounced by the authorl
tics Of the circulating library nj Ipswich
England. That depends upon who read
il and how 1t bc read. One who h un
troubled BY the questions Of our day
resting serenely in the shelter Of the oil
forms or faith, had better pass II by. II
"A shelter thrown up ON the stOfm-swcr
mountain for thoso who have been wander
ing and are chilled Boy the fogsO Of thcnighl
To hosts OF such Il Is proving real bcnC
diciion, for which they thank the author
css and thank Cod, whose hand the
have felt more Ia the darkness
While in this advanced aud liberal ~
] there will be, by many, no special objc'
lion % Elsmcrc's theology, yet II do'
: seem that be frequently yielded 10 arr
! mcnts that were iuuilicienL II the arg
r. mcnta had been moro convincing, who
= they might have been, the leading cha
Q artcr need not have shown, to sly ~
{ least, tins seeming tendency 90 vascillauol
2 The same arguments are IN both the oid'
writers and our modern css,yisi', they a
= nevertheless putin quite nn attractive iori
o That the book i great literary produ
a ton from the hand Ut IA arii5tWhosc min
!. il rich and brilliant, goes without question
J. That she Is equal 90 George Eliot a7
i novelist most critics will deny after q
]. ncwucSs l. over and shcha taken her lrJ
i position In the literary ornament
% Prominent amous the teachings are q
e following IL b. plea for the individu
4 consciousness as against al historic cree
n i1r the soul as superior judge In spirllu
- matters.
j. II tfachts that q graf soul canno,
70 bound by crccds, that Il must break loo
4 aud soar in n faith whore no blight.
~ dogma can reach and no poisonous vine
!. sup,r.ttition can climb, aud that The
Il stand IN no causatiyr relation 10 the iait
i Tor. after they are ouigrown, the faith Il
10 lives In all ~ consp'ng whispers.
/. n teaches that ouc's thcologics 10 iii'
has nothing 90 10 with his real religion
n his positive goodness. Robert was q
:. snmr loving, tcndrr-hcartcd man All
"a skrp,csm bad oyrfiakcn him that
4 wa. IN the DAYS OF h.i blind orthodoxy.
y n. by coniras, OF the leading character
i shows the necessity ui q high educ u'n
u women ne well M men, II Catherine 81
IL rrad and thought with Robert che mis
l. have fcs,uinCd him u hC hal gone q
lt i,g. or Aonc with him Ia case be III
10 not. there wonld at least have bee
u "a perfect compuniuuship IN thought ~
~ the domestic nnhapu.nc,s obNalrd, IL,
II cloquonty II plead, Tor q broader educ
caiiun-a BROADER rtding IN women
q what N good iof b 10 ln h good fora Wumn
W Catherine. throngl much suffering, final
Is learned a lesson ibli alas' TOO many