New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23
whenever / look at you | think OF the woras ISL pl
Scripture. Depart from me- we cursed ih'o ever
la fire.

This vindictIve idea OF God perhaps his great
est trial in popular religion. Another gas ro the
anihropomorphsm which rGs aIergyma r Bu he
admitted that this almost inevitabIe WIN so,r
OF the uneducated These missss OF bo 's said ~
God make me prefer another name ne san p.,r -
prefer to say the Highest or the supreme penn. Tx
In the Ancient Sage have Gaeq iou 10 the
phrase personal applied to Coo ior anao
reason 1t has been used as though Pe ui only
mean that His personality is higher than our on :
lotto says the lack Of but IN he s o"ches
point Tha, point Is the cdHsmyeleped We
,nT IN some sense see Cod And again The
conception in Of perfect being reailzng our ms
est ideals Is some Proof q why Va should we conceive
of such a being unless II were put INTO us 10 w
"Lushington used to to me-" he continued
that II there were no other world this world
c"n,rary feel that it is only the light shed our
earth from another world which gives II any vaiu rue
incentive enough TO virtue If man Is not immortal
The whole race will be extinct probably IN a lew lew
without meaning If man be not immortal. Reig-
ous belief Is necessary TO give life any meaning OF
value. man without religious hspr"''o"S 10
speakng OF free will he said: Man is free but
and his acquired habits limit his freedom They
are like the cage of bird The blrd can ho Ga at
OF the cage. but not beyond Its bars
Evolution was very favorite topic with Nm lie
had made close study of it. and Huxley once SAID
10 me that Tennysons grasp OF the pflhcp"S o.,
experts Waace book on Darwn ,ba was TnU
published until lsss put long Eelo and In VAS dspose
TO think his conclusions more exact IN some re-
man has a prospective brain-that he has faculties
In excess of his physical needs. ms woulu srV"
natural selection" Again: THE descent Of man 5
body from lower animals he once said. III 1t is
turc. We naturally inherit great deal from our
brute ancestors The spiritual nature Is something
mains side by side with the other"
may conclude these rccoections with some ac-
count of a conversation In which he explained to
to which as mature expressions of his metaphys-
cal thought he attached the greatest vaiueIthe
wouId go through the DE Profunds" with me line
by line and he did late I'm January or early In
lie was still, very H. having had rheumatic fever
in the previous year and neither he nor his friends
many rcapses lie could scarcely move his limbs.
and MS finger WEI %eTe sof WIN b oG no, sir
M His mind. however. was quite clear. He read
taroGgn Of t the exparntion have written down
felt as though his Ions illness and his expecai
:" nderinF Of this wonderful poem on The mystery Of
life. H. began quietly. ana read the concludli'S
lines Of the first 'grecting' the lrief description
Of a peaceful old age and death from the human
standpoint. with "A very tender pathcs-
ana Last c in KIM. Fycf y, TtG p5 ss@r's' fall
To that last deep whore and thou art still
Then he gathered force and his voice deepcned as
the greeting to the immortal soul of the man was
read He raised his eyes from the book az the
seventh line and looked for moment AT his nearer
with an indescribable expression of awe before n.
uttered the word "spiiit-"Out OF the dee p spirit
ont of the deep" When he had finished the
second greeting he trembling much. Then ne
read the praycr-a PRAYER. he had told me. OF ser
prostration before the Infinite. think he Intended
it as a contrast with the analytical and reflect I'VE
character of the rest. 1t is an outpouring OF me
simpcs, and most intense acknowledgement TO the
creator an acknowledgment. when all mas Deeh
thought and said with such Insight anc beauty
that our best thoughts and words are as nothing III
the Great Presence--in sense paralIel 10 the
hrcokinp of in the ode to the Duke Of Yelling
,nn~.Speak no more OF his renown. lay your
earthly fancics down" He began 10 chant IN
loud clear voice:
Halowel Thy nawe-Iial"ujah.
Ills voice was growing tremulous as he reached the
second part:
W. f that We are nothing all 10 Thou AMI In The
We feel tia, We are some'hng-tha also mas come "'"
Thee
And he broke down. and sobbed aloud as ne hnishou
the prayer:
We know. W. are nphing-bu' Thou VII, hen w u w.
I,lloweI bv Thy rame -Hal"lujah