The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-16
of depth as the imagination Of the people
IT WAS 1 RELIGION

IT WAS RELIGION
of childhood, full of simplicity and poetry,
in which the idea OF single cause appeared
but feetinsly and with great incistinctness,
became more active. Persia first effected
its reform which is connected with the
name of Zoroastcr; Greece in the time of
PisistratuS was even dissatisfied with the
religion and cast her look to the East. In
the Roman epoch the old pagan worship
had become insufficient. 1t 10 longer sp-
pealed to the imagination and addressed
itself but feebly 10 the moral sentiment It
was at this time that the civilized world
found itself face 10 face with the Jewish
religion, founded on the clear and simple
dogma of divine unity, scattering naturalism
and Pantheism TO the winds by this phrase
of marvellous precision, IN the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth"
possessing book, the repository Of lofty
moral teachings and lofty religious poetry,
Judaism was incontestibly superior, and it
seemed possible that one day the world
would worship as the Jews and leave its
ancient mythology for monotheiSm.
The extraordinary event that took
place at that moment in the
bosom OF Judaism itself decided the victory.
The birth OF Jesus Christ founded the
eternal religion Of mankind. The genial
center, to which man for centuries to come
should trace back his joy, his hopes and his
consolation for well doing, was established.
The mosU abundant source of virtue which
the sympathetic contact OF q sublime per-
ception has made to we'll up in the heart of
man was (established) opened. The at
tempt of Julian completely failed. The
empire at first resisted most energeticany.
1t finished by adopting the faith.
ALL GREECE AND ROME
became Christians. The Germanic nations
and the Sclavs followed later. Persia and
India alone of the Indo- European race pre-
served. much altered, the faith of their an
cestors. Christianity became the property
of the West. Arabia. toward the Seventh
century. could not make up its mind TO be-
come Christian. She founded Islamism.
lslamism brought over to monotheism
nearly all the pagan nations not converted
to Christianity. Tie victory OF Christianity
was only secured when it became what it
had been in the lofty conception of its
founders, creation Invested Of the firm
trammels Of the Scientific spirit
The Jews and Mahommedans have
nothing but aversion for this religion
which, in the hands of another race has
clothed itself with exquisite poetry, the en-
chanting adornment of romantic legends
being gentle, sensitive and imaginative,
such as the author of the Limitation of
Christ" such as the mystics of the middle
ages, such as the saints in general have
professed, a religion full of sentiment and
tender melancholy every way opposed to
the Scientific genius, essentially dry and
hard. In the course of events the prog
ress of Indo-European nations viii consist
in separating Itself more and more from the
Scientific mind. The future belongs to
them and 10 them alone. Our religion will
triumph. 1t will become the religion of
the heart, inmost poetry of each human
soul! We shall attain 10 a more certain
knowledge Of the destiny of man and his
connection with the infinite We shall
understand more clearly the origin of our
being, the nature of perception and what
life is. We shall learn how to live and
that the man who believes in duty finds in
that duty his reward. EREGENA.