The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-21
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NAN was "ascribed every virtue unde Heaven" President Clap was evident ly disposed to adopt Berkeley's doc trine concerning matter. This Col lege," says the President, twill always 5 retain most grateful sense of his Gen < erosity and Merits; and probably fa- vorable Opinion of his Idea of materia Substance;f as not consisting in an un- known and inconceivable substratum z but in stated Union and Combination < of Sensible Ideas, excited from without by some Intelligent Being" The good SPresident would have been gratifed tc < see the modern trend of philosophical x thought toward objective idealism, a tendency probably not without sympa-
 thy at Yale, even though the reasons < for it and for the consequent homage to the genius of Berkeley are not the s presents he made to the College. A notable part of the theology of Ed
 wards, which is not developed in his < polemical writings, relates to the Trim 5 ity. His essential thought on this sub
 ject was also recorded in manuscript, and was further unfolded in several successive papers. The ripest of these K %AeA1 1N'iA6 bCCll hIION II lO llt uupIlUl6u
 among his literary remains It has been kept from publication, partly per- X haps, on account of the abstruse char
 Acter attached by custodians and edi- < tors to the discussion, but partly, it is prObable, because the special view pro- spDunded did not correspond to later sphases of New England Orthodoxy,
 which did not look with favor on the sAthanasian conception and the Nicene
 formulas. Fortunately this valuable legacy of the prince of our theo-
 logianS is now permanently de-
 pcsited in the custody of this university. The basis of it's ex- splication of the mystery of the triune 2 God IS the necessary and so eternal en- rendering by the Infinite Mind, in self
 consciousness, of the complete and per fect Image of itself, a second self, real
 and inseparable. not imperfect or fuc- tuRting as in human lf-consciousness,
 not transient as reflection seen on occasions in a mirror. Between the Di-
 vine Mind and the second self thus be- gotten as ony may say. is likewise
 third, mutually conscious, interacting Love, binding in one the ego and alter A A7S&4&sl1 kSANAA, III OAICl, 10 q bhCtCI OL llic
 leading thought in this ingenious Essay, which, by reason of the curiosity that has been felt as to it's contents, has &C.,
 quired certain historic interst. It is not Sabellian, as it has, now and then, been reported to be, nor is it Arian. It
 IS not in it's drift dissonant from the ancient Greek orthodoxy There is no reason to doubt, when one remembers how early the conception arose in it's .Author's mind, that this line of thought was original. Yet in a germinant form s1t is distinct in Aathanasius and Hilary; 1t is modified and carried further in Augustine and still more in
 Anselm; and in more recent specula- Ition--in the system of Dorner, for ex- 'anaple-it reaches a statement less open 40 scientific criticism. But Edwards
 Was careful to guard his propositions against differences at variance with the triune conception as accepted in the Church
 l-Paper by Edwards on the Satisfac- 4iph of Christ or the Atonement, was left by him in manuscript. It is in- cli1ded in a series which the editors of parta of 1t have named Miscellaneous
 
 This paper, 1t is safe to affirm, is one of the most profund expositions of the Christian truth of the Atonement to be found in the wide compass of theologi- cAl literature. speak of the main DOT lions of it. The qualification of Christ for the office of an Inter- csgsor is a principal theme. His ab- solute sympathy with God and with the human transgressor, the offended one and the offender, was perfected in and Through his death. The substitution of Himself was primarily in His own neart. It was love which comes under Rt1Other's burden makes anothers suf- lering lot It's own, lays aside self, so to Speak, and becomes another. The ra- kiOnale of the Atonement Is sought in |tS moral and spiritual clements In | tS depth of thought I can think of no | 5ther parallel example so impressive | rave analogous reflections of Luther on | !he same subject. It has strongly in- 1uenced 8 recent Scottish Writer of | sar6 thoughtfulness, Mcleod Camp 3sll.
 Shortly before his death Edwards in Rietter refers to an unfinished work, which he speaks of as "a body of di- Unity in an entire new method,' being hrown into the form of history His lesire to complete this work was one ,b5ection to accepting his call to Princeton. He did not live to fin- m 1t. As published after his |eath. 1t stands, however as monu- nent of the broad compass of his stud eA It is comprehensive survey of he providential plan of God in the his 0ric period antecedent to the mission nd work of Jesus, in connection with That in the light of prophecy may be anticipated for the future. Among he writings on the Christian phloso- l1ysof History it is not unworthy es- pciate of the classic work of Angus Inc, the City of God.
 The writings which I have touched bon in the foregoing comments are at directly controversial. It was while e was laboring as a missionary to the ndians in Stockbridge that Edwards , lok the field In opposition to the Arr 7 linian pOlemics. He considered the ar- I unents of Whitby and other popular 7 o fthat side to be ffimsy nd capable of easy refutation. On the '. ther hand, Doddridge and Watts, con 7 3icuous English Writers on the Cal / inistic side. were perceived by him to ! half hearted and vacillating in their .J al n Al