Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-12

are we indebted to them2 We owe to them
our religion. The whole world with the
exception of India. China and Japan and
the nations yet altogether savage has
adopted Scientific religions. What has been
been the cause of this remarkable phenom
enonE The primitive worship of the Indo
European race was as beautiful and full OF
of depth as the imagination of the people
themselves.
| 1T WAS A RELIGION
OF childhood, full of simplicity and poetry
in which the idea of single cause appeared
but tieetingly and with great indistinctness
and WAS bound TO crumble away as thought
its reform which is connected with the
name OF ZoroaSter; Greece in the time of
Plsistratus 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 no longer APP
| pealed TO the Imagination and addressed
| itself but feebly to the moral sentiment 1t
was at this time that the civilized world
! found itself face to face with the Jewish
| religion, founded on the clear and simple
| dogma of divine unity, scattering naturalisIn
! and PantheiSm &c the winds by this phrase
| OF marvellous precision, In the beginning
! God created the heaven and the earth, F"
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
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 most abundant source of virtue which
the sympathetic contact of sublime per-
ception has made to well up in the heart of
man was (established) opened. The at
tempt OF Julian completely failed. The
empire at first resisted most energetically.
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 IsIamisll.
lslamlsm brought over to monotheism
nearly all the pagan nations not converted
to Christianity. The 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
Inc Jews ana MahommedanS have |
nothing but aversion for this religion |
which. in the hands of another race has |
clothed itself with exquisite poetry, the en- |
chanting adjournment 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
protested, 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 lndo-European nations will consist
in separating Itself more and more from the
Scientific mind. The future belongs to
them and to them alone. Our religion will
triumph. 1t will become the religion of
he heart, inmost poetry of each human
soul! We shall attain to a more certain
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
hat the man who believes in duty finds in
hat duty his reward. EREGENA.
Legislature Adjourned.
CONCORD, n. H, April 1.-THE legisla-
ure to-day adjourned until .thas11k WED
'esday in Decembers