The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-09-19
Quotation Column.
photographic Facts and Opinions.
"NEoDoxY."

"NEODOXY."
The beliefs of the new theology men
have been labeled "Neodoxy" by DIR.
Joseph Parker.
BABEL AND PENTECOST.
DR.. Gunsaulus of this city in a recent
address remarked: "Our Christian schol-
arship realizes that Babel and Pentecost
are opposed forever, and that, in the light
of Pentecost, we must welcome inquiry
as to the righteousness of our regnant
industrial SYSTEM"
COMPLAINING PEOPLE.
The late Charles H. Spurgeon was
noted for his homelY sense as a preacher.
He once remarked in sermon: MANY
people are born crying, live complaining
and die disappointed; they chew the Bit
ter pill which they would not even know
to be bitter if they had the sense to swal-
low it whole in a cup of patience and
water"
THE NEW JEW.
The "Memorah" quotes Baron de
Hirsch as saying, in explanation of his
efforts on behalf of the Jewish peoples
ut is my desire. above all things. to
prove to mankind that persecution alone
has made the Jew what he is today, by
keeping him hemmed in and confined to
certain pursuits. But, given freedom of
action and an open field, he will be
successful agriculturist and make, in
the next generation. an excellent hus-
bandman."
JESUS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF
CHRISTIANITY.
Phillips Brooks once said: "When l
turn to Jesus and think of him as the
manifestation of his own Christianity
and if men would only look at the life
Of Jesus to see what Christianity is, and
not at the life of the poor representa-.
tives of Jesus whom they see around
them, there would be 30 much more
clearness, they would be rid of so many
difficulties and doubts-when look at
the life of Jesus l see that the purpose
of conservation, of emancipation, is ser.
vice of his fellowmen.''
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN.
DR.. w. G. Gray, editor of the Interior.
writes from his camp in the woods, in
the issue of Aug 20: "a bundle of dailv
papers show how the political storm
is raging outside-and | am sorry have
to go back into it. 1t is exceedingly IN.
fortunate that financial question of
such vast import and consequences
should be made a partisan issue. and
class hatreds, sectional preiudices. and
partisan war cries and appeals. be en-
ployed upon the most momentous issue
that the country has faced since 1860. I
look upon it with quite as much anxiety
as did then. l counsel every one to
consider the facts coolly, and vote in
telligentlY. There never has been a
campaign in which the voters ballot
will react so powerfully and so immedi-
ately upon himself as it will next Novem-
ber. He will have abundant reason for
gladness or sorrow, on his own per-
sonal account. within day after the
result is announced"
FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT NEEDED.
How true and forcible are DR.. Marti-
neau's words:-"With every earnest and
thoughtful man it is spiritual necessity
to establish himself in clear and positive
religious convictions, and an imperative
duty to give them simple and open ex.
preston in his worship and his life, In
every Christian congregation there
must be. as the ground of its internal
union and external action, fundamen-
tai agreement for the time being
among themselves and with their minis
ter-as to the main features of Christian
doctrine, as we'll as the essentials of
Christian life; and the unreseryed
preaching of these is no less obligatory
upon the society than the private pro-
fession of them upon the individual.
Still further. it is incumbent on the
wider aggregates of persons scattered
over the area of province or country,
and united in earnest theological con-
viction, to combine together for the
teaching and vindication of what they
believe to be true, by the press, the pull
pit, the missionary, and all similar agen-
ces"
PROF. SAYCE'S VERDICT.
Prof. Sayce does not seem to fear the
loss of standing among scholars by tax
ing the conservative view of the literary
criticism of the Pentateuch. Here is
what he says in recent article in the
Contemporary Review: Let me briefly
review some of the r, asons which pre.
clude me from offering any longer the
same W ecome to the method and con.
clusions of the higher criticism that
was prepared to accord to them fifteen
years ago. The pivot upon which the
whole question turns is the Pentateuch.
or the Hexateuch, as our critical friends
would make it. If the Pentateuch ia
really hodge podge of ill digested NOR.
sells, none OF which is older than the aos
of the Jewish monarchy, while a consid-
erable part OF them is postexilic, we NAV
at once give up the contest. and foIlo,-.