The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-22

institutions should subsst That would be
the national constitution. Any plan would
MAKE institutions" necessary. We should be
uIuer new institutional DOMINION Ana
the mortar OF the new affair would not be dry
before more people would cry out against its
inquiries and tyrannies than are crying out
Today. prefer the American constitution to
the Heron constitution. 1t has far less OF
tyranny-far less of poverty.
You may ask how he can consistently make
war on institutions and advocate such view.
40 not Know. Here, surely, is INSTITUTION,
a!lsm with a vengeance" This theory ana
MS otner theory consume each other ike MS
praise ana MS condemnation OF competition
almost In the same breath. But here are his
words:
ut is through the state that the church of
Goa must organize the kingdom OF COO on
earth. "Ihe state is a religious organism.
christianity needs the state as surely as the
state needs Christianity" "There can be no
actually OF Christianity in the world unless it
reanzes ITSELF IN the nation. The people can
never become Christian until the state become
the organized Christianity OF the people" DO
we wonder, after all this, to hear this lecturer
afnrmlng In the close of his fifth lecture on
Christian State" that ga new holy catholic
church is yet to be realized?" Is he asking
ms misstatement to foster his hopes when he
says that "ln spite of all our statistics Roman
ism is gaining ground and Professionalism is
relatively losing ground?"
what does our author mean when he afflrms
tnat Jesus has become the ideal OF the mob"
.The mob" is not happy expression to be SO
strongly 10 the common people II by the WORD
ne means TO designate them. The vast mass OF
common people-the plain honest Work-a-day
loik, mo, without demonstration, are bearing
the beu and burden of the day, never gather
IN mVbs. IL was not the "mob' that heard
Jesus gladly in the days of his Gal1lean minis
try. The mob of to-day finds its inspiration IN
saloons and its opportunity in times OF peril
The moos instinct is violence and Its flnlshed
Work Is hre and blood The mob marches with
a red flag at the head of its procession ana
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the throng TO whom Jesus has become the
IDEAL? The mob howled its approval When ne
nung upon the cross. 1t would as surely 90 SO
to-day In the name of my master protest
most earnestly against the statement that ne IS
1.-The ideal OF the mob" No doubt the mob
would gladly shout for Jesus If 1t can be mace
10 Delleve that he approves OF anarchy.
The practical result of such teachings, II they
should gain any Roadway, would be 10 set the
people over against each other in deauly war
OF classes. DR.. Herron's appeals and denun-
Citations do not have the effect of calling for
righteousness from all classes. he stlrs the
passions OF class against class This dld not
Jesus. our Lord, born among the poor ana
wearing the garb of d peasant, never Appealed
TO class prejudice. He denounced all sin ana
appealed to all righteousness. He was as care
1ql 10 say TO common people as 10 the rulers,
Except We repent We shall all likewise PERISH
No part OF Dr. Bushnells great argument for
the divinity of Christ is more powerful than
that in which he shows that the method OF our
LORD was the exact opposite OF that unworthy
Professor Heron. He did not embitter class
against class, but was so faithful in his appeals
that his disciples were found among all classes.
and so impartial in his denunciations that his
enemies, too were in all social ranks.
My reason Tor opposing Professor Heron mas
in ii nothing personal never saw him until
last Monday. l have been impelled only by a
profound conviction that the time has come Tor
some one to point out the tendency OF his
teachings and the evil results that must follow
if the church of Jesus Christ should adopt his
theories. l would not willingly injure the
feelings OF any disciple of my Lord. But when
interests SO vast are in issue, and when 1t is
sought to attach the church of my Lord to the
widest of revolutions, l must lift my voice. l
gladly concede that there is much in Professor
HerrOns writings which, if it could be de-
tached from other parts which are ut
terly wild, would be most helpful and
spiritually stimulating, but it cannot be
detached The mischief is that it is
so inwrought with what is destructive that
the good lends its whole force to propelling
the evil. do not for moment think that he
would approve of dy Mantle His theory is de-
structive OF government but he would not con-
sent to violence.