The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-10


can be wrought within a few months
Years may be necessary to repair it.
| With reason or without reason doubts
can be injected into many minds which
are removed only by much patient
labor. No section of a church should
nave liberty to SOW seeds of unbelief.
The faith of the church should be set
tuled and maintained by the whole
BODY Of believers within its fold, and
not by a minority
The New York Christian Advocate
argues that.
No person who is not a member
IN the divine origin of Christianity,
should occupy a professors chair in
any college or university supported by
Christian communion, unless it be in
certain technical schools, and not then
| If the professor be what, for the want
or better phrase we will call dog
matte agnostic. 1t is contrary to the
TACT that all men of every high scien-
THO eminence are avowed agnostics.
That those of whom nothing is known
as to their religious sentiments are not
agnostics, no one can prove That
some are not only avowed agnostics
but positive opponents of Christianity
the public is we'll aware But every
year the number of scientific men who
have the ability to distinguish the
phases of science and religion increases
A distinction should be made between
man having sufficient of the scientific
spirit and mental furnishing to eXpound
and illustrate his speciality far beyond
the requirements of university course,
and one who has attained eminence as
an original discoverer. The number of
the latter is small while of those who
confirm the discoveries of this smaller
number, and point the way to the
enlargement of the domain of science,
so that the student according to his
genius will be prepared for self-de-
yelopment, the number is large. A
preposterous spectacle it is indeed when
a denominatio establishes a college
or university to promote Christian edu-
cation, and fills its chairs with pro-
fessors who by their private conversa-
lions, classroom implications, and in
tellectual bent and spirit, as well as
their known connections are continual
ly counteracting the Christian influence
of the institution"
The New York Freman's Journal re-
marks:
There is this in the growth of ag-
Mysticism, besides the pretence of a
good portion of its disciples-that it is
reaction from the apparent incon-
sistency of Protestant Christianity
whose devotees have thousand and
odd different notions of God and of
! what is required of men to do to be
| saved. 1t is wiping out the sects, not
as to number for it is the mission and
logic of Protestanism to increase in
differentiation till every man is a creed
unto himself, but 5as to faith in them
1t is their lament that the sons no
| longer go in the way of their fathers.
-, al in
clude the majority of mankind. The
thinkers, who firmly hold that an I'M
changeabfe God of reason, who has pro-
vided for the wants of his creatures in
| everything else has not failed to re-
veal Himself, and provided a repository
of His truths and justice on earth, will
naturally rally around ChristS Vicar,
while those proud to the perversion
of their mentalities, with those too in
different or too callous to think at all,
will find themselves together in the
camp of negation4 and hopelessness.
| The time may not be so far off. There
! are those who think we are now enter
ing within its limits. and the signs por-
tending its approach are the tendency
| towards agnosticism on the one hand
and an inclination towards the Bark
of Peter on the other by those of our
separated brethren with whom the ira
dition and grace of a Catholic past are
veritable but unrecognized heritage"
The Boston Christian Register has
| this to say:
THE mind must seek and claim it's
liberty, in religion as elsewhere, for
| there comes TIME when the spiritual
| life is in danger of perishing without
| it, One finds the name of Christ IN the
| church to be synonymous with great
always strong enough to be a power
| for good, and is sometimes an over
| mastering force to save from sin, and
| fill a dark life with beauty and peace.
But we cannot find that the common
mind has any very clear IDEAS con-
nected with this sentiment. theology
still expounds its theories, 1t is true
but. if the Christian life were left to
feed on them alone, it could thrive no
better than lichens upon rock
This is from the Church Abroad and
at Home:
| Faith and reason are sometimes set in
| contrast, as if one excluded the other.
This is a mistake. Faith is not sus-
pensionof reason, it is proper ana
normal exercise of reason. Reason de-
cides that it is safe and wise to trust
d. e., to have faith IND physician, a
pilot, an engineer, a statesman. No eX-
ercise of the power of reason is more
| legitimate or more regular Reason
must apprehend the ground of faith, or
else the faith is not reasonable. 1t is
credulity then. Reason apprehends
God as a real being, and his character
| is trustworthy. Your knowledge of him
| justifies your faith in him. Imagine
him to be other than what you know
J him to be. Suppose that you knew him
| to be untruthful or unr1ghteous-lt
would be neither reasonable nor right
| to trust him; we now reasonably trust
him. because we know him.
Faith should never be set in antithesis
| to reason. Faith in the Supreme is the
supreme exercise of reason. Reason
completes and consummates her reason
| ing when she finds a worthy object of
! faith.
| The Churchman touching on the
question of religious liberation, says:
federation is supposed to be a virtue
peculiar to modern enlightenment. 1t
| is certainly a virtue whose spirit is en-
bodied in the American constitution.
Religious liberation never prevailed in
| the world to the extent which it has at
tanned at present The toler-
ant Christian does not abate one jot his
IsteadfaStness and conStancy in adher-
ing to his faith; but he feels that an
] other man, living in the light of an
other phase of truth. is not to be hated
or Knocked. Perhaps he is not always
to be argued with; but a sincere wish
| for his enlightenment is perfectly con-
sistent with liberation toward his error.
| This attitude of considerateness is in
| fact one of the most persuasive instru-
ments of conciliating those who are
not believers. 1t is consistent with the
most intense zeal and the most eager
enthusiasm, but these two qualities are