The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-27

The church must mean more than this,
is the feeling, or its significance is
gone. Constantly to profess principles
which it does not apply, or even hon
claim its own hypocrisy. When a
church can grow up in neighborhood
without making the neighborhood bet
ter, or when incoming vices or degrade
ton compel church to move out and
hunt nice neighborhood, 1t is natur-
ally felt that there is something wrong,
if not with the spirit of the church, GER
tainly with its methods.
The New York Outlook takes up the
question of the essential difference be-
tween a theist and agnostic, which is
said to be that the former falls back
on the testimony of his best moments
while the latter puts the emphasis on
his worst, in this way:
Professor William Knight, in his
recent book on Aspects of Theisn,'
frankly declares, what most candid
men will admit to be the fact, that
| 'theistic evidence comes and goes This
agrees with Darwin saying that his
Judgment 'fuctuated'; that sometimes
the theistic conviction would force it.
self upon him with irresistible power,
while sometimes it would escape his eff
forts to grasp it. But why should any
man hesitate over his choice between
his faculties at their flood and at their
ebb? If he can sell pig-iron or write
letters or make a. speech or paint a
picture better in some moods than 9TH
ers, Why not acknowledge that he can
judge better OF the deep things Of God
at some times than at Others and why
not choose the best times for the lat
ter as well as for the former? In the
| SnhPrR q ITya
fail to give their full evidential value
to our most impressionable states. I'm
mortality seems very real and neces-
sary when death snatches away our
best and leaves a chasm at our feet
| Why should not the memory of such ex-
the dulling of belief in the life beyond
which the daily round and irresponsible
man and nature bring?"
On the subject of inspiration, which is
now under discussion in some of the
religious conventions, the Chicago In
terror argues:
If God chooses a man to do work
for him, the presumption and the prob
ability are that he will so qualify his
agent that he will be scientifically as
we'll as religiously accurate in his ut
terances. This is a legitimate a priori
assumption, and is justified by the ma
ture of God, of man. and of Gods reve-
laton to man. Truth is one, and there
can be no contradiction or discrepancy
between truth as religion and truth as
genuine science. Another point where
one OF the schools of higher critics fails
IS its assertion that in the early chap
tiers OF Genesis it is out of the ques-
ton to talk about historical evidence
or science If the critic means chap
tiers one to three inclusive, it may be
replied that the evidence is prehistoric
but is corroborated by our differences
from the evidence afforded by the cave
jewellers, by the founders of the Akad-
ian and Elamite and Egyptian civiliza-
lions b. G. 5000, and by their informa-
ton as to the existence Of aborigines
DeIore them. But if the critic means
the first fifteen chapters, he has STUN.
pled on stone-the monuments OF
Egypt and the clay libraries of ChaI.
dea. The historic evidence offered by
them as to the historicity of Genesis
is overwhelming. Finally, when the
critic claims that there is no science ir
Genesis Iii, ask him how much fur.
ther modern science has gone in its ex.
PLANTATION of the world than, In the be,
ginning Cod"
In Christian Thought. Dr. w. w
Mclean thus concludes a well digested
article on the Bible and biological sci
ence:
Now, what do we find, as a matter
OF tact, in the Bible? We find the
statement that man is made of dust,
that there is breathed into man a
spirit-that is, he is a thinking, intelli-
gent creature; that originally he is one
that ultimately the one becomes two
+ and that the two sexes, male and fe.
male, constitute the true unit. There
. can be no conflict, therefore, between
the facts of Scripture and the facts OF
biological science. Biological science
today must say that men exist as male
| and female; that the male and female
: together constitute the unit, and make
possible the perpetuation of the race
5 that man is a spirit, intelligent anG
! self-acting, and that man is dust, anc
the facts which Scripture teach us, if we
set aside the form in which they are
I presented, are simply these same
facts, that God made man of dust
made him spirit; made him who was
originally one as an essence, to be two
male and female, and that these con,
, stitute the unit. So that there is har.
|, mony in the facts of biological science
and in the facts of creation as stated
in the Scriptures.
r In the Non-Sectarian, Rev. J. H
Croker has an article on The End OF
True Religion, in which this paragraph
occurs:
Religion, as such, is the outblosson
Of human nature in its entirety. Au
thor of all litanies and bibles, archi.
tect of all temples and cathedrals
sanctif1er of all relics and shrines, or
ganizer of all priesthoods and chart
ties, inspirer of Handel and Mozart
revelator to Dante and Milton, master
5 of Angelo and Raphael, religion is thar
supreme product of human nature
which arises when a man turns from
sin, and sorrow, and ignorance will
t profound earnestness and all-devourins
1 aspiration, toward the imperishablt
D beauty, truth and holiness of the In
e finite Spirit. And, blot out all these
S wonders that religion has. wrought, le
ruin come to shrine and temple, OBJ
!. livion to poem and masterpiece, yet re
e ligion would remain with creative
: genius and efficiency, because mai
himself remains Dones would rise il
= prouder majesties, psalms of sublime
imagery would break forth from thu
l human heart; new ministries of love
y shaming the selfishness Of the old