The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-12-26

70 cApE0ge ~ the telAt1On OF man 70 tu9
Maker q mo universe. A God that com.
with compassion the widow aud orphan,
And how express his infinite SYM
,pathy and helpful love for human
beings, than under the most tender image
Father In heaven, = purely spiritual rolH-
ton. An expression Of Thoughts winning
itself into our hsarts by the truth II voices,
q. product worthy Of the. religion
OF thu spirit. What has tho world
ss :, mo ssGss,nG y i ~ asof F' sSs f4sa g Io o .
thought and pstrlied IT into d dogma, the
isea which wins its very beauty aud at.
Effectiveness from the spontaneous. unre-
strained character and materialized ". "
singled out one man and said, 'He 10 par
eral sense. and in the moro rcpulsive
phrases of Rpodern authority, every man IL
robbed OF Ms childhood with God, unless
he sees the universal Father through tho
prescribed glass. Judaism gave TO the
world the idea Of the spirituality OF man.
Thin king Of God ~ 4 spirit only, II looked
upon extraordinary mental endowment,
gen US and mo, al purity as pre-aminent rove
Iations Of Gods own spirit. What did the
world do with the beautiful. ethereal no.
ton. II sOliditied it, made II prosaic. per-
sonifed II and made II a distinct person In
" ~ W. Nv NAS0A ~
technical naine OF the holy ghost.
Judaism was the fist religion In the
world to proclaim the golden age OF man
kind to be In tho future and gave the hu-
man race the iden OF the Messiah. The
idea Ia the hope OF the human heart ex-
kind and strengthened and made clenr BY
religious belief. Israei's religion of the
spirit attic Inptedxt 10 solve this Syer recurring
problem of the human mind. OF disparity
between dire fact and the ideal thought.
between what is and what ought TO be, and
unfolding TO the human heart the approach
OF u time whsn tho world shall be filled
with tho knowledge of God. 1t recognized
that this tims would be inauguratsd by the
appearance OF one man. The kernel OF the
bclIsf remained constant while the form in
which ii was Embedded changed. The
kernel was a hopo of the ultimate redemp-
ton of the human race based upon the
faith of a humanity filed with the
spirit OF God. That hope inspires
this Jewish churches and preachers to-day
va Id lone with this idea? Misunder-
standing the real nature OF this hope.
which Israel, in rejecting all meBsiahs. ap-
precinted and valued, out OF a hope. out OF
an idea IL made a dogma, and thus said
that instead Of = principle moving the
the apirA OF God, humanity was to be saved
merely ~ the faith in a particular mos
siah. It made out OF the living waters OF
tbs faith of tho human soul and the ulti-
mate victory of it's noblest aspirations, the
frozen mnss Of a crystallized dogma.
while the nature OF the opposition OF
Israel to the world may have changed since
the M%acoabsan times, the nature OF our re-
ligion has not changed. Its forms changed,
no doubt, for judaism. although it's oppo-
nents do not study impastiaiity and some
not at all its period of development after
the destruction Of tho temple. Judaism is
essentially q y, oppressive religion, and thcre
arc at different periods of the races history
different kinds of Judaism. Many things
for which the contemporaries of Judah
Maooabee thought martyrdom ought to be
suffer, we, seeing the inheritance
Of principles in a different
perspective, would hardly make q test of
loyalty to the religion. But the truth re-
solved in the Maccabcan is also continued
in our opposition to the world. Israel
stands aloof because its religion of the
spirit fails to find it's true duplicate in the
religion Of the world. And this fact is the
only one which justities its historical exis-
tence. Israel loses its moral justification
conviction gains ground that it has no re-
ligioua mission. 1t is for it's loyalty to tho
truth which the PROCESS Of thought is indi-
eating daily, that it has a right and takes
new inspiration from the memory of old vic
tories. Not alone do we stand. Every theo-
logical synod, everv new bo0k \, every CON
sclentious expression OF
thought, inform us that the world il Begin
ninR to appreciate the merit and the ne
cessity Of the exclusive ministry by a race
of people secure in its purity"
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