The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-17

setting aside dominion, providence and ma!
causes. Is nothing else but fate and nature"
Locke in his Human Understanding" says:
10 show. therefore. that We are capable OF
knowing. that Is. being certain that there Is .
Col and how We may come by this certainty.
tn nk We need 70 no further than ourselves.
and that undoutt"d knowledge we have ~ our
own existence. | think II 10 beyond question
that man has clear perception of his own be-
Ing h" knows certainly that ~ exis's and that
he Is something" Do these attributes pertain
alone to tho various Christian se"ts7 Ignoring
III. claims 81 the ro-called heathens who he.
licve in God. have not The Dei-ts. psianthro-
pstS II. O.. believers In Christ "a historical.
but not divine p"rSonl and agnostics some
rlghi to Gods aid. though rs rationalists they
prefer 10 trust some " hat to tho evidences pre-
scented Ia their own senses rather than accept
blInily thu views Of writers. transa,ors and
transcrbers who lived IN times Of b gotry. su-
pcrstition and ntolrrar 90 as far removed from
this age Of enlightenment as Ia. fguratively
speaking. the star CyEnus H. from the solar
system?
Somehow the practical man Of today wants
facts. Does he get them from tho ordained eH-
Founders OF dogmas? Most frequently hs Is
met with an offset such as Malachi H.. BIO
do your duty thusly. AMI We can talk Alter
ward. The loIg-drawn-out 1.-THE question In
the Church OF EnGand Ia case In point Is
the layman to be blamed II he requires some
return for his money other than the reading
, OF Scripture and sermons'
Mr.. Tudor Williams very Aptly presents
, Iocke's contention: Man knows by an intui-
tive certainty. that bare nothing can no more
produce any real being than It can be equal to
his right angles" And Again. man finds In
himself perception and know edge: We are
certain then that there Is not only some being
but some knowing. Intelligent being In tho
world" Further From what has been said,
, II Ia plain to me. that W. have a more certain
knowledge OF the existence OF a God than OF
/ anything our seAses have not Immediately Dis
covered to W.. Nay. presume l m ~ say that
we more certainly know that there is a Col
! than that there In anything else without u.s."
| But. IA Mr.. Williams says we have no asEur-
ance that God will take uH into His confidence
when We cross the bar" II II the innate
faith-the soul-that makes us yearn for some
/ thing beyond. not the faith that, no'ens polens.
! theo oRihns, scientists md others desire us to
, abide by. There In nothing logical in sup
posing that when nature never countenan ces
loss. man should have been designed for 10
othrr purpose than few fretful years OF nun
| dane existence only.
Aud. after all. what do va attain In discus-
sions. when the vast m sjorlty are hide bound
. IN thelr DeleIsf Mr.. Joseph H. Hnter = trite use
! OF Swi't's a horlsm will not teach the clergy
the error OF heir ways so long as religion In a
means OF livelihood. licensed and sanctioned
by governing bodies. and the said bodies are
not going to leopard their political power by
interfering with the m oat touchy attribute OF
the average human being Religious belief.
Goethe's pathetic cry for more light" New
mans hsseechinR lead. kindly light" John
Stuart Millss Il see no proof" and the famous
conclusions OF many great minds seem but
/ TO prove that the Supreme Being
! has given us reason to distinguish between
right and wrong, II mankind were TO follow
the precept found in ali religions ICON 'uoius
taught It long before Christ; Buddha. Zoroastsr
and Mohammed used II as q lsvsrl An things
whatsoever ys would that men should do to
you. do ye even so to them" there seed no but
little fear that God will receive His own again
without intercesHion. be he Christian or so
called heather. 10 use Tor =, M spiritual pur-
pose. Just as nature uses matter. so that moth
| ing may be lost.
The Rdkiah- expansion. Of the Hebrew scribe
| means al that IL was intended 70 convey. and