The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-08-24
SATURDAY. AUG. "a.
EDITORIAL.


Neeueu' en- who have been
gathering together during the past few
weeks make great things possible for the
Christian church in the future that is not
far away. Whatever differences there
may be in the articles of organization of
these various associations, they all &C.
cept Jesus Christ as their Divine Lead
err. The truths he taught in his daily
life, are the truths the world has need
of now. Time has in no way made Jesus
Christ less divine; or the mission he
came to accomplish any less important.
The imperfect humanity of today needs
to be helped in many ways, but we need
no new way of salvation; no new Sa-
viour. He is the one and only Saviour
needed by all the family of mankind.
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WITHOUT any partlc-
A Pleasant Sum- ular arrangement in
mer ISSUE advance, this issue of
THE UN1vERsALIsT, as it is made up, be-
comes quite summer number. The
descriptive article on Cottage City with
the illustrations occupies good share
of our first page. DR.. Tuttle's article on
Narragansett Pier describes summer life
at another noted watering place. Mrs.
Sherwoods pleasant letter is devoted to
Bay Ridge. the summer resort on Chesa-
peake bay. These sea, side letters are
pleasant reading and will be enjoyed by
those who are not fortunate enough to
share in the summer pleasures described.
To those who desire the strong meat OF
doctrine in a discourse we commend the
sermon of this week by DIR. Sweetser, of
PHILADELPHIA, on the question, did
Christ Teach the Doctrine of Everlast-
ing Punishment"
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Rev. JAMES EAST
Results of the Re- WOOD. in an able ar.
hglous Nature ticle recently pub
lished in the Christian Leader declared
what is clear to all Christian thinkers
that "agnosticism does not satisfy the
religious sense or nature" and further
afirms that "the human intellect is
competent alone to work out the idea OF
God" But he makes this all compre-
hensive distinction: Nevertheless had
we the five senses, consciousness and
reason only, we should probably have
had neither deities nor worship OF them.
We owe these primarily to the religious
sense. AS we should have had no mar
rage or parentage without sexual ma
ture. no clan, tribe. state or nation, and
no government or laws unless we had
social nature, 80 we never should have
had religion had we not been endowed
with a religious nature" The word
which we place in italic is important.
Without the beckoning and interpreta-
ton of the religious nature man with all
his gifts ard endowments could not
reach the idea of God, but with the
illumination which comes through this
we can reach the sublime conception and
rejoice in the experimenting care and
love of the Infinite Being-even believe
in him as Friend and Father Of all souls.
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"CLEARLY any church"
The scope OF remarks the Metho.
Uhurcn ureeos' dist Review, of New
York, would make mistake If it should
commit itself, and bind its ministers
and members to any particular scientific
theory or economic doctrine; to any par
ticular chronology, secular or biblical; to
any one theory of inspiration, as against
all others; to any one attempted in
te rpretation of the infinite mystery
of the Trinity; to any one exposition
of the incarnation and the TYPOS
tatic union of divine and human in
Jesus Christ; to any one among the
many philosophers Of the atonement; to
any one opinion as to the nature Of the
body in which our Lord appeared in the
various Christophanies after his resur-
rection; or to any calculation OF the
precise date at which, or manner in
which, the Saviour's second coming will
take place. Refraining from promul-
eating any fixed and final decision on
such disputed secondary matters, the
Church should manifest the sweet rea-
condolences of its adorable Master. and
confine it's dogmatic and authoritative
declarations to those fundamentals
which are indispensable to its orgauiza-
ton and life and essential to the struct-
ure Of the Christian faith; and to such
doctrines as contain important and well
ascertained truths of religion, not likely
to be altered by new light or any pro-
gress Of the human mind"