The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-08

they all bat foregieams, prophetic uggsstions,
dim intimations, In the wide outer world, OF the
coming Of that Christ in due time In the aesn.
who, before His coming, was the pervasivs, IN
spring genius of ell time Call them rsvela-
tsols II you will; call confucins and Buddhs
and the rest insp red II yoa WILL in certain
W y; little could they have known or tsught
along the line. of moral and religious truth, If
they had not been. This wisdom comefn not
fr ,m beneath-not as q spontaneous evolution
of the unsided human mind. These m x ms OF
Gr1cian philosophers; these incuications oil orr
entail religious teachers, living 500 years, more
or iess before Christ are to some extent cor
respond mt to the typss ana symbols of the
Christ of ETERNAL history, local In time, which
we haze IN the Old Testament
"Above. below, ia sky and sod,
In Ieai am tpar, in s,ar and man,
We mi sht the wise nenian scan
The geomeiric signs OF God,
The measured ortef OF his plan.
And midas mystics sang Alright
OF tne One Life pervading ALL
One Beings tidsl ri e AID fall
In soul and iprm, a sound sud sight,
Eternal on how and recall"
Ill Aud why, then, thirdly. should II seem a
thing incredible that IL the teachings OF Christ
there shou oe just the res mbl snces referred
10. which have been paraded so piaus b De-
fore our view7 Christ as the wisdom OF God. Is
the sum of all wisdom. WHAT he does not know
is not worth owing in religious lore Com ng
visluly into time through me me iium 4 his
birth IN Bethlehem, out of his eternity past,
why should here not appear here aud there Ia
his mora and religious system. corresponds ces
to IN ,se Things OF he past which na been in
spired by Himself? Ii In that system there is
found L re saying closely resembling some
thing spoken BY Confuc.us or Buddha. what OF
II? He was the original OF il in the first place.
Is IL not HIS right 70 do what He will with His
own? WHAT m I ers it il He pursued a some
what eclectic method, and finding rich gel
OF tn ugAt in Pao-for we m ~ suppose HI m
10 have been familiar with Patio; finding
wise precepi in Bnddha's teachings, or
true doctrine announced by Zogoaater or
Confucius, should nave said: 1T was
who hrst gave TO these men these thoughts:
why shail not recall them now aid embody
them IN my own SYSTEM" Is ally plagiarism"
for man TO quo from himself? Il va, the
doctriue OF origen that there was SOM truth in
every system. Very we'll The Lord said: "Tne
kingdom OF heaven"-His own kingdom-''is
ike unto net that was cast into the sea. and
gathered OF every kind, which, wnen II was
iuii, they drew 10 snore and sat down and gath
cred the good into vessels and cast the bad
away" Let IL be admitted that the method of
TINS parable illustrated the principle allowed
by our LORD; there is no loss 10 the unique or
lily; II stands Incompatible: "tnere is none ike
that give II 10 me-" The name OF Jesus ne christ
stands aud vii stand the "nsme above every
name." He goes forth conqaering aud to con-
quer the supreme p ace. Thrift aud lhe other
masters" SO some men speak vi him. / were
a, fitting to speak OF "the sun and other fire.
aies"
With regard to the superior nature and virtue
OF Christianity, recall q remark OF ndel
Phillips: IL know Buddna's protest, anu wnal
he Is said to nave tried 10 do. T, ali that my
answer IL, 'Iudia. past and present." Edwin
Arnold has himself admitted the vast superior
ity of Christ, tie Lignt OF the World" over
Buddha, the Light of Asia, q I'd mis- poem on
Christ, the Light Of the World" is, II is said,
,on TO appear. am glad o quote the follow.
ing from tine Liberal Christian: ali We look
at II in a general wsy. and as 1t affects society
II large. we may safely say that God mas
adopted the Christian religion into the religion
oil humanity; that for l.s70 years the his DRY oil
civIiiz ton has Deea tue history OF CHRISTIAN
fty; that the race is last icing peled
TO date all Its sacred and secular concerns from
the year OF our Lord. Whatever may be said
of other religions. is it not plain that ney do mol
promote progress, or deveiop the intellectual,
moral aud religious life OF the world? p sress
does not characterize India, China, Arabia.
Egypt Africa. or heaeh-n lands. Heath emism
means apathy, moral death, despair. quietism,
oppos ton to equal rights popular dig ,ity, se,f-
government Christianity mea popular edu-
, alton. philan .hropy, liberty, equal rights. Ii
mas Always been the motive and source of
them"
10! the cross set in rocks by tine Roman,
Aud nourisned by blood OF the Lamb,
And wat req by airs OF the woman,
Has hourished aud spread liks palm"