Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-13

which they confess every time they re-
hearse the Nicene Creed They FULLY ex-
pect that grand fact to be visibly realized
/ soon or late, rs God shall choose; and they
are prepared to wait with the patience of
| hope for the event which they assuredly
expect. 1t is their duty to expect, to work
for 1t, to pray for it; but they are perfectly
aware that when it comes, il will be of
Gods gift quite as much as of mans choice:
and they are also well aware that no sub
| stitute for true corporate unity will ever
be of any real worth. They must there
fore prefer to be patient, if it must needs
be so, rather than clutch at unrealities.
In Gods time, and not a day sooner, the
reality will come, and it is well worth
waiting for"
The CAristies Union says: "What
Christians object TO is not the scientific
testing of all scientific conclusions. what
ever the subject matter with which they
have to do, but the assumption in certain
quarters that there are no ascertainable
truths except such as can be scientifically
ascertained-that is, ascertained by pro-
cesses of reason applied to observed phe-
nomena. What Christians insist upon is
that there are truths just as certain and.
indisputable which the senses cannot per
ceive and the reason cannot arrive at.
They are arrived at by other faculties
which are as trustworthy as either the
senses or the reason. What we insist
upon is that the truths of religion, the
truths of goodness in life and character.
are as real, as certain, as ascertainable as
scientific truths. They are not what peo-
pie happen to think about them They
are not imaginations or emotions. They
are realities. They exist, not in the mind,
but independently of the mind as the law
of gravitation would still continue if all
matter were blotted out of existence. and
would begin forthwith to operate anew if
new matter were called into existence.
These religious truths do not vary, though
mems capacity to appreciate them varies.
They are eternally the same. The mind
does not create them; it perceives them.
The mind which cannot perceive them is
Ignorant, just as the mind which cannot
perceive the truth that the world
| revolves on its axis is ignorant. The
| one incompetence is different from
the other, but it is no less
real incompetence than the other. 1t is a
scientific conclusion that the Ten Com
mandments were written in the age of
Moses; it is religious truth that it is
wrong to steal, to murder, to commit adult
cry. 1t is a scientific conclusion that Jesus
Christ lived, died, and rose again from the
dead; it is a religious truth that his life
and character, as they are portrayed in the
-Four Gospels, are of unique moral beauty
and excellence, unequaled in human his
tory. 1t is scientific conclusion that we
are ever in the presence of an Infinite and
Eternal Energy, from which all things
proceed; it is religious truth that we can
come into direct personal, spiritual COM
munion with the invisible Father of spir-
its. These religious truths are truths, not
conceptions or imaginings or mental crea-
tions. There are more men who have the
capacity to perceive the higher religious
truths than there are who have the capac-
ity to perceive the higher scientific truths.
And any man WHO has not the capacity to
perceive the fundamental and primary re-
ligious truths, those truths of purity and
goodness on which the whole fabric of
society is built, is a moral idiot He be-
longs among the abnormal specimens of
diseased humanity. His place is in the
hospital for incurables. We sum up our
whole philosophy on this subject with
three apherisms, which we recommend to
the thoughtful consideration of our read
ers: Ideals are realities. Imagination is
sight. Unfaith is ignorance"