The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-02

service. Indeed. the very term
theology itself is one which cannot be
banded about in mems mouths with
out losing too much of its sacredness.
Theology without the grace of the di-
vine spirit breathed over it would be
the baldest sort of human science, not
half as useful as botany or the manu-
facture of drawing-room brio -brac. :"
Deserved emphasis is laid in our
age" says the Central Christian Ad-
vocate" (Meth) of St Louis. upon the
invincible testimonies of a literary, his
torical and critical sort, which help to
establish the validity and authority of
| the New Testament. Without diminish
ing that emphasis it is we'll to reflect
| upon the fact that, after all, the most
important and convincing proofs of the
divine character of the Gospel are those
which are lodged in human hearts and
lives to-day. The supreme witnesses
to the divinity of Christ are alive now.
They are to be found in all ranks of
society and in all lands; they belong
to all the various vocations, occupa-
tons and professions; they range in
their habitations from the very slums
of our cities, from the humblest and
lowliest plantation cabin, to the pal
aces of royalty; While as to intelligence
and culture they grade all the way from
the little child. or from the mental
condition of the recently converted saw
age, up to the very highest estate of
intellectual training and achievement
as found incarnate in some of the most
vigorous writer's and thinkers of the
century"
1.-THE way for the Christian church to
counterfeit whatever is erroneous in the
societies of ethical culture" says the
New York Outlook" lis to preserve
and present all that they possess of
value and add what they lack: it is to
preach a Righteousness of life. and not,
as a substitute for it, a correctness of
opinion; it is to show that the Chris
tan church and the Christian faith can
teach higher ethical ideals and present
more powerful mad more enduring eth
zeal impulses than any school of ag-
Mysticism: it is to inspire a greater
passion for righteousness, and to make
every revival of religion a revival of
the spirit which does justly and loves
mercy and walks humbly with God"
1T may be suggested that Canon
Cores reconciliation of Genesis and
evolution is too much an afterthought. ;"
says the Christian Register Unit) of
Boston. mo one saw in Genesis the
gradual development now found there
until the theory of evolution was gem
orally accepted. Although Canon Gore
shows real iberality, yet it is evident
that his is an attempt to bring science
TO the aid of old doctrines. He says
that the essence of the doctrine of the
spirit of man was breathed into an
animal organism, it was a childlike
spirit in direct relation to a divine will;
and that it might, if it would have fol-
lowed the path of development marked
out for it by the will. and that
if it had taken that path,
the lower animal nature which so
fatally disfgured and corrupted the
story of human life would have been
poison 1t would appear that science,
however, states the facts as it finds
them, and makes no attempt. even SO
liberal a one as this, to patch up a
truce where none is required On all
such questions as the origin of man and
the nature of primitive society it is best
to take the word of science as the final
one"
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