The record-union., 1898-11-27

forms having been predominant among
Christians since the Christian century.
Congregationalists believe that the in
FAINT children of believing parents are
included in the covenant of those
parents with God, and therefore that
such parents may properly present
their children for baptism. But Con-
gregationalists do not insist on such
baptism or belief in it as a condition
of church membership. They claim lib
erty for themselves on these two points
connected with baptism, and accord it
to others
when the physiologist tells US that
thought is a function of the brain, and
proceeds to draw his materialistic con-
clusion that when the brain perishes
the soul dies, he is thinking says the
'Watchman" (Bapt) of Boston, 'of
thought as made in the brain, but may
it not be that the brain is the organ
for the transmission of thought, just
as the lens transmits the light which it
does not produce? 1t seems to us that
this is fair reply and a fair escape
from the denial of immortality to which
so many of our psychologists think they
are shut up. 1t is not unreasonable to
suppose that there is a spiritual world
behind, above, and beyond this mate
rial world, and that, to quote Professor
James: Our brains are thin and half
transparent places in the VEIL.
In those places CLEANS, however finite
and unsatisfying, Of the absolute life of
the universe are, from time to time.
vouchsafed. CLOVIS of feeling, glimpses
of insight, and streams of knowledge
world To the objection that this is
simply imagination, and that science
knows nothing of the process of trans
mission of thought by the brain. it is
quite in order to reply that neither does
science know anything about the pro-
cesses of the production of thought. OF.
of states of consciousness by the brain.
On all hands it is admitted that the
genesis of consciousness is the world
enigma" /"
The preaching that makes the heart
burn, and fills us with a glow of new
endeavor and higher purpose. r Nv
come from stammering lips. from very
simple and plain words, from no words
at all, simply from a presence that lifts
us and ennobles US by its power of sug-
gestion and conservation" says the
Christian Register" Unit) of Boston.
or all forms of insincerity, pulpit in
sincerity seems the worst, because it
postures and mouths in a holy place.
Dead Journalism has so portentious a.
nold on our time that nothing short Of
passionate sincerity, truth and con-
vlction, lived and believed in the. pro-
foundeSt manner, can break up the
stony surface. The come-outers from
these correct, often beautiful, but dead
places, are those who have felt the ar
row Of genuineness piercing their souls.
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eve can never increase love for
the church by lowering it's aim or ig-
noring it's true mission says the In
terror" (Pres.) of Chicago. ''It may
rightly endow hospitals, and provide
industrial schools and supply soup
kitchens; but it must be something
other and higher than either to be
loved of men. So far as we know.
there were no converts at the wedding
in Cana of Galilee, although the Christ
gave them wine instead of water and
the men who We're fed miraculously
with bread at Bethsaida were the first
to turn their backs upon. Him. 1t was
only those who could say, Thou hast
the WofdS OF eIerna1 lie, Who followed
Him to >martyrdom. It.-is true that
the church has touched and blessed
every relation of man, the family. the
school, the State, but whoever limits
it's horizon to the narrower field robs
it of it's true glory and sdeprives it of
the allegiance of mankind. He who
loves the church most is not he that
is oftenest at its sociables, but he who
is never absent from it's prayer-meet-
ings."
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