The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-02-25
DOCTOR REMENSNYDER.

4 ''l"r lstIncnSnydcr: Nor necessarily
What do YOU mean by necessarily"
Doctor 'ineuSEyd.r: We don't say
that il will NOT be-. 1t does not need to hc
! p!'jItipu pf the scriptures"
Rabbi Monde. Now, what effect would
;u~.,'"rial flames have Upon Il spiritual eN-
You must localize hell
Doctor Macarthur: Il 10 not know why
We must. | have already said that while
l believe that there may I've a place for
eternal punishment. In my opinion II Is
more of a state and condition rather than
Doctor EcmensnyIer: 1T Is not neces-
SaFy tu predicate a locality
Rabbi Maulcs. 1t must be somewhere. Of
course. can You tell rs whore We are
Doctor Macarthur: II have always held
thHt il "a man lives a righteous If D." Wi!
thlt in rroroTtiou. as a man - wicked he
Will find hill As..."
Doctor Kemsnsuyd'r: May ask YOU
NJ. Men@es, Is Their . strong feeling In
Judaism against a man NJ" deserts tie
Rabbi Ncntay: I'VE are apt to look up-
on such - one "a a r.r-.gGe and a de-
scrt.r f.r worldly adydnt5-,. ". DO nrt
undertake to pronounce a spiritual hau for
Doctor Macarthur: II want 20 call az
teutiuu 10 "a " word. which ! have, and
which / think describes the condition 81 A
great many T""n. II Is found in III" stand
art Dictionary"
Doctor t;omenenydsr: Doctor MacAr-
thur j. a specialist on new words. S"u
Doctor Macarthur: Thu word is 'miria--
npstir.' l. Is a word We greatly u''i. Many
tr"g ar" neither agno~tic- nor noStirS- In
tn carly history If christianity. IN
Tho Third Century. I think. therr Was a
set called '~uuSiics.' Professor Huxley CAV.
us the word 'agunstic.' H. coined that word
/. cd'.~" h. S;Il that IN many OF the clubs
TO which he = lpuEci tho m-n used "a great
many titles Of various kinds. hut. %" sail,
that h. himself WIS without "a rdc II q
the. ana So he ""!.l"'. the word agnes
tie as the opposite Of 'upSttC' Of the early
CHRISTIAN centuries Joseph Cook reached
tho conclusion thdt We needed Il new WORT.
because. he said. "a great many in'u were
not asHustics. ana neither did they claim
to be nc@tics. lie asked thu lat" Doctor
NcCush II he could coin a word that would
express thu attitude Of the sr,st maturity
ui men on religious topics. Doctor Mc'osn
JnouEht , moment and said, Let me get
my Greek Testament. III" did 81. and h.
got N. word 'miris.' Now he said. all
YOU want to DO IS 10 ada 'npstics. and
th"y ,ili 81. and made inlIahpS'lc, ana
E~,.i~tic science that We have had in many
= day. Now, as for nay self, ! am only a
'mi;ar:ostic.' ! usually md ina; the men
whn call themselves 'aEnosticS' are nothing
more nor less than mtria.Hpst:,s.
Doctor l;emenSnyder. Il know no more
than YOU do on these great insCrutatIe S.!n-
jccts. Whatever have heard of the higher
criticism has never taken firm hold nor
succeeded I'm shaking my faith
RAIN IN v max
Doctor I:,mensnyder: Faith in the fact
that there - 4 God That This God Is my
comfort and my aii. ! have 1t Simple. child
like iaitL in this divine reality thtt has
been believed in by every one from tire h"-
yiuuiu- of TN" world
Doctor Macarthur: My impression IS that
there are very few men Who az" intellectual
Doctor Rcmonsrytier: There is mother
point, and that is that perhaps the most 'N-
,II.I minus pf the world have been phil
pl,E..r- aud Tl.E naturally give Ep.cnfllt
tre 'tm,ut to these great thoughts"
Faith is tt thing which The ayeraSe man
cannot understand. | would like 10 nave
Doctor Mcndcs tell me what arguments
h. would use If he wanted TO convert me to
JUIiaiSm-'
to your Intelligence inst, and ask YOU;
Finding yourself a unit IN tho MIDST 81 a
.rcit world like this, and seeing IN mat
world 50 many instances Of wise concep-
tion. wise execution and loving care. WIZ
rot Jhat compel You 20 tcaL'"NIcyEc uls
Supreme Is.ing. who ARRANGED an thlS~Ihe
architect Of II all-iu "liit5 ""r'S' ""u'
DO YOU deny evolution:
Rabbi Ncuies: Evolution. IN my nini,
f. simply Gods WHY e.; working. that -
all / DO NOT believe mat things started
Themselves from . germ and elaborated
themselves o.: their own volll"n-
Admitting evolution. the ~,l'-.tilc tl''ty
Of evolution. and figuring ih!' eNv!"lIYh
was ordered and answered by God Il Is I'M
possible for you TO believe thtt iria1p!'e
had "A soul. When does the soul br-th.
paIhi M.ndcs. III j. v.ry difficult to say
vb.r IN, ,nf,uitc soul bsuius. That is ahS"- |
Ir.f,Iy beyond our conception. nor does IL
concern US at all. We fce! that We nave "A
soul. 4uG that Is sufficient fJf Us
Doctor EemeuSuydt.- 'u'l.'iH "H,'o
with Doctor Mcuies'S statement mat t."tH-
non II simply the method 10y which God
the result. w nav" inaHt III my
tl.iu mont. an enormous hi'.i.dtr- II h"d
has implanted in the germ certain p'@Sinll-
ri,s of .Ir\uiouuent there may he more lEr-
,,sa an ms Islrt thaa if hr created GnUu
and women. and other aEliE'iiS ~ 4 Npfl
in "a moment. Ne h4y" t'nf'uhi'i tl' INV
In "a very u:-cicntiic way. Win tn" absence"
of = i4wriv-r. Law j. III" nam" Tor tn"
manner in which W. have observed some ,
force -, work. Law implies a h"%IN't.
a force. but q form; 1t Is not a motor, |
q motion. with that conception there !
is a true and Just evolution. ana the he
yoUtest believer in God can accept .Volh-
ti"n with the utmost simplicity anu err
n~cSjncSS OF faith" |
rs there any one thing in which you ger ,
representing three distinct cr.eiS
and all orthodox. Is there any on" thing |
Nccpting the Messiah, in which you dii-
fer |
Doctor Macarthur: Il answer for myself
Doctor Menies: II think th7t the central
IF Christianity - Jesus thrSt. ,
and the difference between DOCTOR MaCAT- |
and myself is as To his divinity
of course. YOU deny the divinity of
Christ. but YOU accept the coming Of the
q nan >
Doctor Rcmcnsnyder: Il think there Is 1
this distinction between US. You miSht say
the Jew b, lieves in the personal God. |
believes in morality and believes in eternal
through a righteous ne There /
Is a distinction there. I think. In that Ch1is-