Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1893-09-26

man has denounced the congresses in
unmeasured terms, especially because
of the ~immoralities of Buddhism.
Rabbi Hirsch has been writing and
saying severe things about the con-
crosses.
@ir boben oieIe Stelle citirt, I'm
ouf ben %9enteinen 6uBtritt oufmertiam
81 MAIDEN, welter Den be~tgebaBten
Mdnnern Der g8iNeni60it ben Seiui=
ten oa ge9eben tpirb.
SrOIten mir uns ober, ocnn es DeiBt
their (the Jesuits) presence would
have furnished men of high talent
and uncommon erudition. Sas
3eu9niB lit immerbin wertb, OGB man
es unteritrei6e.
Sine NnOere 9lnIi6t, ipel6e "unierer
gteinun9 na6 ni6t wenig g8abrbeit in
li6 bir9t, lit Oas 6~olgenOe, Oas Der
Seem YOrt Sun" entommen 1T:
If the sO-called Parliament of Religions
at Chicago is for any other purpose than
to be a sensational side show TO the Fair,
it is a purely agnOstic purpose. 1t is to
destroy the old conviction that there is Il
single absolutely true and perfect religion
revealed from God, and to substitute for it
the agnOStic theory that no religious belief
is more than an expression of the universal
and ceaseless effort of men to discover the
undiscoverable. 1t is that mems are of
their own making, and that they are i'm
proved II finally discarded according as
the manufacturers grow in enlightenment
How then can Christians consistently
join in any such pOlytheistic symposium as
that now proceeding at Chicago? If Christ
ianity is not the sole true and perfect relig-
ion, and if all others are not consequently
false and perniciOus, it is based OH delusiOn
If it is not merely the best, but also the
only religion whereby men can be saved, it
is an imposture. If if contains only a part
Of the truth, sharing that priceless posses
sion with many other religions, its source
is not as it proclaims it TO be. Christianity
is either the sole and complete revelation
of Divine truth from God Himself, and
hence the only and absolute truth, Or ii is
a fabrication of men, the more worthless
because it seeks to bolster itself up by false
pretenscs. If God did not come down
from heaven and take on the form of a
man in order to show man the only way of
salvation, thereby making all other relig-
ions false and profame, Christian theology
is a sham; it is built on fiction.
That being SO, Christianity cannot argue
with other religions and compromise with
them accepting and giving something. 1t
can only say, this is the truth of God
uttered by God Himself, and there is no
other religious truth possible. Accept it
or reject it at the peril of your soul. God
does not argue with men. He commands
and they must obey; and Christianity is
that Divine command, or it is no more
than a delusiOn and a superstition. If it
is not Divine and absolute, but uncertain
duman cropping for truth like other relig-
ions, the story of the Incarnation and the
Resurrection is a fable and the doctrine of
the AtOnement is a myth.
How, then, can Christians come together
with Buddhists, Brahmans, Mohammedans,
Jews an /OrOaStrianS TO discuss their rplig-
ion with them on equal terms? How can
they treat them otherwise than as infidels
who are the surer of damnation because
they have seen the light of heaven and
turned away from it?
In Chicago hospitality to all religions
indicates agnOstic indifference to them all.