The morning call., 1894-12-24
HUMAN OR DIVINE.
Deity and It's Attitude To-
ward Man.
AN ELOQUENT DISC CURSE
By Rev. Hugh r. Haweis, Late
From London.
NO ROOM FOR FURTHER DOUBT.
The God of Christianity Is the Only
True God of Science, History
and Love.

rev. 6ugh Reginald HaWels. one OF
England's most eminent divines, preached
a sermon 20 large congregation in Trinity
Episcopal Church last night. The an
nouncement of Mr.. Haweis' coming caused
the large edlfcs to be filed half an hour
before the opening of the evening service
and many were compelled to stand from
beginning to closing.
Mr. Haweis recently arrived from Lon
don. He is rector of st. JamesChurch,
Marylebone, one of the Queens chapels.
and is also an author of high standing
among the cultured classes. Among his
works are "Musc and Morals" "Christ
and Christianity" Thoughts for the
Times" Speech in Season" and "Winged
Words"
The distinguished preacher will deliver a
course of eight lectures on eight consec-
utive Sundays in Trinity Church. While
naturally partakng of orthodox religion.
the discourses will appeal to rational
thought and scientific knowledge in other
branch es.
Tue subject of Mr.. Haweis' discourse
last nigh was: "God-Who is he? What
is be? Where is he? How is hep" The
speakers purpose was to prove the exist
ence OF God by the application of existing
knowledge to reasoning minds.
The existence of God" the speaker
said. rs the greatest and most important
question that can exercise the human in
telligence. It has been made to appear
a question of the deepest mystery, the
gravest problem, when, as a matter of fact,
1t Is no mystery al all. All things in the
universe, all history, all science, all ra-
tional thought. attest the existence Of
God. But in these days, when we have so
m 10 oil not hon
these things TO d test.
when everything else as we know it
shall be gone, when all else shall have
lost form. God Will remain the same. God
Is the lnextlngulshable, the ever Tecur-
rable. The fool hath said. There is no
God Even men deemed by the world to
be wise have said the same, and have tried
to prove their theories by wild specuIa-
zion. About twenty-five years ago when
such speculation was at It's height it was
thought possible 10 conceive human nature
without SOUL the universe without God.
But the famous Tyndal himself struck the
keynote to reversiOn of thought when he
said: We must change the fundamental
principle of matter before we can clearly
demonstrate the theory of chance crea-
tlon.' That's 1t exactly. When to matter
you add force and knowledge--in short,
when you put into it all that you want to
get out OF it, then you have creation as
~ 10.
"All that matter needs is force and
knowledge, the guidance of sovereign
will. and that is God John Stuart Mill
said: 1t is more probable. more logical,
that the universe Is ruled by a sovereign
will History in all its stages bears out
the theory that behind the universe there
is supreme power. There is one omnipo-
tent, one Omniscient will that lifts all to
higher unity with itself. When all specu-
latIon fails the heart rises and says: L
have felt God and | know that He is
You have heard tell of first cause.
How can you think of such thing? How
can your mind grasp the idea OF a time
when nothing was? II is simply unthink-
able. There was cause, but it was not
first cause any more than eternity had
beginning or space a limit 1t was,
it is, and 1t always will be lOve-love that
is the creator of all that is noble and ele-
waiting iE man. Love is Coo and god is
love. working through the Unreasonable
ages, just as we see it hour by hour, day
by day, year by year. There is something
in you that The world did not give,
that the world cannot take away. You
shall die and turn 10 dust, but the human
lty that was in you shall remain forever.
The divine in human nature is what holds
the world together, it ties the sacred bonds
of the family circle, of States. of nations.
God represents humanity Ia mankind.
Christ means the humanity of God He
was God andlmanlin o1e grand consumma-
tion.''
The subject Of the next discourse. Sun
day evening, December 80, will be: 1.-The
Blble--how inspired; when written; who
wrote It; OF what use now pr