Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-21
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VI tHe CIlVSTSHllSI fCnuTcl4 OIL lne Ae-
deemer, recently launched an independ-
ent church in the Grand Opera House,
Chicago, and in his sermon to a congre-
cation of nearly 800 people made some
radical and startling statements.
Among these were the following:
Ninety-nine clergymen out of one
hundred don't believe what they
preach; they have too much intelli-
gence to believe it. but preach accord
ing to the dictates of the congregation
that pays the salary.
"Theology-not religions SO much
systematized moonshine. The theolo-
CLAN is simply book worm, and knows
nothing of the laws of nature.
In sectarianism there is no freedom.
The parson Is but the whistle through
which the congregation blows the wind.
There are superlative idiots in this,
world-the man who says there is a
God and the man who says there is not
q God. We do not know
Rev. Gregory was enthusiastically
applauded at the points of his sermon
where these statements We're made.
Among other things he said during the
! discourse:
Trusting in the God with wet pow
der is a most hazardous business. On
May day, year ago, out in Manila
bay, a wonderful battle was fought On
1.-THE one side were the Spaniards, pray
ling; on the other We're the Americans,
/ pouring into the foe those terrible
I thirteen-inch shells. And the shells
won the day. Not all the prayers and
all the preachers could have made the
1lresult other than it was.
Long enough has man been the
4 looping willow. 1t is time now he had
become the oak, tough. brave and de-
fiant. Let us learn then 1t is the lion
/ that gets the first steak of the antelope,
and that the cowardly hyena must con-
tent himself with that which the king
4 of beasts does not want.
"Divorcing ourselves from the mani
ties of the theologians, we must buckle
ourselves down to the solid truths OF
4 science, and upon those truths rear a
structure whose foundations shall be
secure.
Teach the Young that by no sort OF
. Ipious hocus- pocus can prayer or re-
pentance be made to shield them from
. the hell of violated law. We do not &c
to hell. Hell comes to us as often as
we insult the sanctities of nature ano
the soul.
Christ 1 revere. but for Christianit.
!, Ii have no use The self-elected custo-
dams of the good mans gospel pu
everything into their mixture except
the Masters spirit. That they strange
/ Ily overlooked"
r FLNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN
THEOLOGY
VI The international Congregations
: council, held at Boston on Sept. 20-2S
: opened with full attendance of dele
!. gates from all over the world. DIR. j
b. Angel, president of the council II
his opening address, gave eulosy Q
1.-The fathers of Old and New Englan
8 Congregationalism and outlined tn
|, work before the churches today. II
! ESPECIALLY emphasized the value of lib
+ erty of thought for teachers an
preachers I'VE best honor the ia
> TIERS" he said, by renouncing thei
errors Let us rejoice If in our mos
advanced picket lines we have som
choice spirits who can descry the daw'
of larger truth than we have yet seer
Let us not hasten to burn them a
heretics, but wait patiently to see
they are not our prophets. The key
mote of President Angells address wa
taken up by all the chief speakers o
Theological topics:
Dr. George Harris, president of Am
lherst College said: so long as relis
ion endures there will be theology, fo
religion is belief concerning God an
man, and theology is simply the belief
(which are Justified to reason and TO lif'
But no defense of theology is needed
this presence, and we go at once to on
& subject / do not attempt. in sing
PAPER, to formulate a system, but onl
Ito suggest postulates in the form of
study in theology. The fundamenti
principle of theology Is also the heal
of the gospel. That principle is thu
God is love- All theology and all go:
lpel are contained or implied in thu
. principle We may put these things t.
yether as best we can on our doctrir
. of God the Father, Son and Spirit r.
9 creating a rev humanity till his knt
n dom comes, but to the last word of II
S story 1t is all divine, and to the la
g word of the story it is all human. A
n knowledge and progress converge G
9 those lines. The last word of scien'
!, is God, inseparable subject and obje
s. in one final sentence. Man and God al
x the last words of history, of philosoph
8, of theology. of religion
g DIR. A. NJ Fairbairn, of Mansfield Co
n ,ege, oxford, remarked: If GS
b laughs. then must he not laugh at the'
g men who think that they hold God
81 custody, and distribute him to who
g they will? The last apostacy Is the d.
n spising of the faith of man, the late
5 grace of Christ, the consenting to DIVE
e with the errors of pride. John Miltc
q once said: The man who believes b
g cause the presbytery told him, or b
N cause the priest told him, is hereti
o even though it be truth he believes
& We want no tyranny of belief. III
Is car, as the head of the Greek churc
@ is a cruel head, for he is the playthir
* of ecclesiastics, and the most cruel ty
q amy is the tyranny Of ecclestias'
* cism
* WHAT is THE SOUL?
8 To the editor of the Sun-Sir: y. o.
g query, What Is the Soul?" Is pert
- nent. Before we discuss the nature al
attributes of a.thing let us first find o
ii the thing exists. An astronomer on
discovered an immense dragon on Il
sun, but before entering into calcul
tions upon the dimensions of the sol
| ~ ~, ,oht ba we a.