The herald., 1895-04-10


the critic. Nebulae are far away from our
| sphere-so is new thought sometimes be-
yond our range. Nebulous bodies must he
| hot-)r. HerronS words are not icicles.
they made some of the members of this
| club pretty hot last Monday. A great
| hope is beginning to grow that out of the
glowing gas of such men as Heron will
| come solid system unlike anything our
present Christian civilization has yet
| known. t
"If [ read DR.. Heron as he desires to
be read. he believes in a living God, in
| the righteousness and love of God and in
! Christ. He believes in the awful fact OF
! human sin and he does not stop to make
distinction between individual sin and
| socialized sin; he believes in sin done
| by sinners and sin done by saints; he
| believes in emptive love.
What has condemned DIR. Heron in
so-called judicious minds is his thrust
| ing the pointed staff of his polished rhet-
| orlcal thought into the slime that lies at
| the bottom of the muddy stream of social
existence.
Brief statements of his which more
than squint toward socialstic theories
were quoted here last week. It is true
Haymarket bomb-throwers and nihilistic
assaSsins voice utterances too about the
peoples control of the instruments of
production. but do not the political econ
omists of high rank do the same? | hear
the same sentiment in the San Francisco
Halt Million club, as well as in the in
telligent unions of those who have appro-
priated the word of labor for them selves
1t is time for somebody to think tor
somebody else is thinking. This is not
the time for saying nobody shall think
except he thinks as we do"
Upon which Rev. Brown arose and re-
marked:
The paper was study. 1t is really
revelation to me how Brother Pullcn,
u q ottlt lttrr RI /.
be led off by a man like Herron.'
He then condemned Herron's socialistic
utterances, saying Heron is worse
than Debs. The striker said last week
in this city that it his wife needed clothes
he would steal. Heron would not steal
one garment, but whole factory. Her
Ion's utterances are those of an anarch-
lst and want to meet him where L can
tell him that believe him to be an an
archist.'
How awfully shocked Dr. Heron would
feel if he should learl that Brother
Brown regarded him as an anarchistl
Nevertheless | rejoice that tn leaven is at
work in the church. where it was bound
to work at last. Rev. Mr.. Roumiger is
right. Ingersoll and other agnostics, who
deny Christ in their heads but frequently
honor him III their hearts and daily lives
are by no means the worst of infdels.
The most deplorable and destructive in
fidelity of christendom may be sought
and found right in the church. and on
the part of Pharisaical preachers who are
tenaciously clinging to the Son of God in
creed and profession, but treating as an
alien and outcast the Son of Man who
stands outside the doors of civil, CONNER
cal and social institutions vainly knock
ing and pleading for entrance, while the
priest and the Levite are unconcernedly
passing by on the other side, as though 1t
were none of their business. 1t is the
old, old story reappearing in the modern,
familiar phrase and platitude of the
Browns, and the strong, healthful and
heroic utterances of the real doctors OF
divinity and of humanity, like Heron,
and yet as ancient as the walls and Tenn
pie OF Jerusalem, or the words of Him
who SAID: 80, Jerusalem! Jerusalem =
thou that killest the prophets and stonest
them that are sent unto thee; how often
would [ have gathered thy children to-
gether even as a hen gathereth her chick
ems together under her wing, and ye
would not"
And the end is not yet.
JAMES G. CLARK.