St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-31
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pended had certain well-defned views
regarding manners aud habits. and
ways Of lite, and that advancement
meant heed for the voice of social law
in the history of the world.
Then the reason teaches, too, that
the development of character is largely
the result Of our admiration OF an ideal.
Even.When we find one that is. within
our easy reach, we are most profoundly
helped. have always been thankful
tHatI had a profound admiration for
K0bert ColIyer. His broad humanity,
hIS1cheerful race. his kind hand at a
ti5ne when needed friend, was to me
an smquestioned influence for good.
NQW. the church in presenting the
CDS!st has in tho Islands Of cases saved
men, from wrong ways and made them
better Ineyer heard man scott at
thh'eharacter or the humanity of Jesus.
He Touches every heart, and it is only
When churches turn away from their
ideal and quarrel about creeds that they
find men turning away from their doors.
1Te, have seen, then, that every evil
dtnce which man is able to use at all
nttlSr be under the influence of reason.
LStme add few words on the subject
irfitself, Reason and conscience have
bIoken more shackles than any other
agency. They destroyed the pretensions
OF THO king. When the divine right Of
the. man who was born in the palace
was unquestioned, when the plebelan
bowed down and ate dust, his better
Judgment told him that no man was
ever made to.
Play the Tyrant.
When the priest had grown arrogant,
forcing his subject to receive his word
as law, then Reason spoke the word. and
man once more threw off the yoke.
When Injustice bound Ignorance hand
and foot, drove him to the jungle and
put a yoke upon his neck, brought him
to an alien land, worked him in the field
as slave, then did the better judgment
of man rise in his defense, and his
ShackleS were broken. 1t freed the Serf
men in power, it often fails to get a
hearing. but when it does get the Oppor-
tulaty it says in unhistakable tones:
For justice. all places a palace and all
seasons summer" And while it sees
fright forever on the scaffold and
Wrong forever on the throne" it lifts
voice full of courage and power, declar-
ing that 1.-THE scaffold rules the future,
and behind the dim unknown Standeth
God to watch His own"
Shall recall to you the proposition
with which l started? DO you remem-
Der that | said the evidence of the truth
of religion is our cons ciousness of God;
that tried to show that by spiritual in
stinct we take direct hold of God; that
it is by conscience that We know truth;
bpt that conscience must be directed by
reason; that it must be supported by the
experience of mankind; that it must be
led by all ideal-and has Christ for its
ideal-and that the church herself has
ever been indebted to reason for en-
largemeilt OF knowledge, OF scope in her
work and generosity of spirit. And
whether we are glad or sorry, Reason is
the final court of appeal. She makes a
man Catholic or Protestant; she makes
US view the Bible as we do; she deter
mines our view of church history: she
gives us our opinions Of creedS land she
is, let me believe, the helper, and not
the enemy, of religion.