New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-08-06

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again: The process Of mind is God mans thought
OF God is the existence OF Cog; Coo mas no y, InGe
and does not know Himself; It is we who know
personality follow upon the teaching of sPinoza,
In which likewise ali human personality is denied
individual life, which is the death Of all Individual
HOW 1auTa 100 Us IL 20 t5 The re-
mark. Gentlemen We will now create God II
all is God and God is all. then personal God
Il is evident at once that pantheism destroys all
and obey person; It undermines all morality. l9T
It teaches that what we as g6e e oSe ab
lutte principle. and God does not only eountenance
for it declares "as the flower fades in the autumn.
so we are swallowed up in the stream or exist
of the fact of creation. demands creator; IT. con-
our hearts argues personal Law giyer; It contra
diets the teaching OF the heart for the heart CRIES
guide us AN eye 20 .IoH upon ~ cod Is to den
consciously or unconsciously. finds himself among
the Greeks at Athens bowling before the altar
Third.The power Of Psnthegsm is everywhere vItaS
why SO many intelligent minds are, deludsd
by Christian Science, by theosophy and by tne
are several reasons when can be suggested;
spent their time in nothing else than telling
or hearing some new thing" and there are
and are willing to accept or eager TO find some new
religious fancy or fad And the panthesmE OF TO-
calls itself the New Christianity" the New
it is no more novel than the Hindoo philosophy OF
5000 B. c., and 1t at least three hundred years
second-Tts apparent piety. The Athenians whom
Paul addressed were nothing II not RELIGIOUS he
in all things you unusually religious" Yet be-
after all their religious sentimentaity amounts 20
nothing and he calls upon them to repent So
deep piety. Spinoza. the father Of modern Pan an
W5t o6 sa So f5 toe the Ne% 6rd claims
for itself TO be the highest expression Of Christian
fbe ResurTecon the Deity Of Christ and every
fact which is fundamental 20 the Christian doc
APPEAL TO AESTHETIC EMOTIONS.
Third-Its appeal to aesthetic emotions. Deep
ence for beauty Unconsciously this his God.
ence for purity and righteousness and truth His
highest artistic attachments were paraleled by his
hict between art and Christian faith they should
worshipped and the latter unknown There are
many people who are more strongly Impressed
When the aesthetic emotions are allowed full play.
and when the conscience and the sense Of moral
saIe ii3t1s aSot Sin and re6entance and righteous-
ness but makes a god Of the beauty Of nature or
art. The true knowledge of a personal God while
ton makes us yearn the more earnestly for virtue
and for that inward holiness Of which external
FouTth2Its appeal to pride Pant6eisn makes
god Of man It woTshiPs hum ma ny NO wonder
The Greek poet whom Paul quotes declared Of God:
10 identify God with man and Paul quotes the
poet after he has shown that God is distinct from
and also the Object Of his worship and the Judge Of
his conduct. But when pantheism Identifies God
manifestation the former. it becomes what Greek
reglon fer Te2i GI I'm Ib hare
ground my head bathed in the bthe air and up
the currents of the UNIVERSAL being circas e
through ne am part and particle Of G9d" And
make similar quotations ton from Science and
manity We can understand the words of that rever-
ent Christian scholar who maintains that such
ing of that man Of sin who, as God will sit in the
temple of God, showing himself that he is God"
REPUTATION OF PANTHEIsM
FouFthmThe Refutation Of Panth he 81; his
BRIEF series Of statements each one Of Which con-
tradicts his error. and shows in what sense God is
ment that in Him we live and move and have
being He shows first, that the true God is the
the World and He must be distinct from the World
ruler Of all for He has appointed for the nations
of their power. He is therefore a personal God
He is very near 10 ALL active not only in the
men should have found He wished them TO seek
fST @ he to f nG 9 H 79 and ndHe Him. to
love Him, Him and to obey Him; but in
which could be seen and gods which he could form
out of gold and silver and stone: There was
time when God might have forgiven such ignO-
rance when He might have permitted them TO say
that ''al things were God and God was all things,
but the time of such ignorance has passed. and
God now commands all men everywhere to repent
for He has revealed Himself in the one divine man.
Jesus Christ; There is no excuse now now {4g not
given full and final complete revelation of His
holiness, of His power and Of His love He has
la ton of Himself. by raising Him from the dead
from the dead shall as God Judge all the world.
No wonder that Paul here interrupted for
r @ P0m tRs DEAD and no Wonder the
modern pantheist, with all his professed reverence
is willing often to bow before the sublime teacher
from Nazareth but at the fact of the resurrection
coming of Christ he is as ready TO mock as We're
the Athenans on Mars Hin. He even predicts that
soon pass away As Swinburne writes:
Though before thee the crowned Cytherean.
Be fallen. and hidden her head,
Thy kingdom shall pass. Galiean,
Thy dead shall go down to the dead.
Far differently does Paul write of the coming
splendor of the personal appearing of the great
God is near us but we will never know him Alright
until him revealed in Jesus Christ.
he that hath me hath the Father" The
better we know Christ, therefore. the better We
know God, and we shall know Him fully when we
see Christ. not merely with the eye Of faith, but
behold Him as He is. Even now His spirit is
spirit Of life the GomfoTter By HIS
spirit He does control and guide us; by His
life is shaped by His providence; our very ex-
stence is dependent upon His grace. We may
name of Christ come TO Him. trusting in