The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-21


 the Son of God, as Mediator between
 God and man, and his wonderful, great,
 full, pure and sweet grace and love,
 and meek and gentle condescession.
 This grace that appeared so calm and
 sweet, appeared also great above the
 heavens. The person of Christ appear
 ed ineffably excellent, with an excel 1 lency great enough to swallow up all l thought and conception-whicb contin-
 ued, as near as l can judge, about an
 hour; which kept me, the greater part
 Of the time In a flood of tears, and
 weeping aloud; to lie in the dust and be full of Christ alone; to love him with
 holy and pure love; to trust in him; to live upon him. to serve and follow
 him; and to be perfectly sanctified and
 made pure with a divine and heavenly purity ! have, several other times,
 had views very much of the same na-
 ture, and which have had the same ef-
 fects."
 Not few of the class whom Newman
 calls 'the merely literary appear to
 know nothing of Edwards save pas
 sages from his Enfield sermon on the
 torments to be expected by the wicked
 hereafter The medieval habit of fg-
 urative description in portraying the
 terrors of the law. of which the Inferno
 of Dante may give us an idea, was slow in passing out of vogue in Protest
 ant pulpits. This fact is Illustrated in passages of Jeremy Taylor to whom no
 one thinks of iinputing cruelty. It was the method of Edwards to confine the attention of hearers to one side of the shield. He could discourse on the mercy of God end the bliss of heaven with equal fervor and effect Yet it is a fault of the Enfield sermon that in it the merciful character of God is ig- nored and that retributive punishment is depicted in imagery that may fairly be called repulsive.
 The fundamental principle in the philosophical and religious system of Edward wos the doctrine of the Abso- lute. The existence and necessary ex- istence of Being, eternal, infinite and omnipresent, a Being self conscious, yet not dependent for self-conscious- ness on aught exterior to Himself, was propounded with emphasis in the youthful essay. the title of which Is Being" This principle was ever af- ter the ground work of his teaching. | In respect to the nature of matter, the 1 idealism, which remained his creed { through life, appears in the same Es- say, and is definitely stated and advo- cated in one of the papers in the notes 1 on Mind,-inl a paper written probably i while he was still a Tutor in College. | This belief was. to quote his own words, that "the substance of all bodies is the exact. and precise, and per fectly stable idea. in Gods mind, to- gether with His stable will that the same shall be gradually communicated to us and to other minds, according to certain fixed and exact established methods and laws or, In somewhat different language, the lfnltely exact and precise Divine Idea, together with an answerable. perfectly exact, precise and stable will. with respect to cor communications to created minds and effects on their minds" What is called the substance" of ma terial existences is asserted te be fc- Iion put in the place of God, of His deas and consistent, constant will, Minds alone have substantial being; ilt llillliit hillhi anu llllllt illitihSt . which in Him Tive and move and have heir being' Edwards provided in his axpositions caveat against Pan .heism, on which, otherwise, his theory night seem to verge In the proposi- ion that material things have no be- ng independent of the perception of hem either by God or by other mental beings whom he empowers to perceive hem, Edwards is at one with Berkeley n the nature expression which Berke- ey gave to his theory.
 The coincidence of the ideaism of Edwards with that of Berkeley is so triking that not unnaturally it has 'een conjectured by critics, including Professor Fraser, his able and learned ibgrapher, that it was from Berkeley hat the youthful American Philoso- i her imbibed his views. This, I may e allowed to say, was once my own , Further investigation of c he question, however, has proved it to 7 Q in the highest degree probable that , his inference is mistaken one. Gn is recent edition of Berkeley's Writ 1gs, Dr. Fraser says: "I am now 4ss disposed to this conjecture than , Vol. III, D. S9S) It | 'as owing to the powerful stimulus im- , arted to the young Yale student by o ne writings of Locke that ne was z to moye on in path of his : wn. quite beyond any conclusion ' cached in T.ocke's quickening Essay. . he new philosophy" to which Ed z ards afterwards refers with approval '. ppears to have been the publications . [ Sir lseac Newton, the influence of |, hich, in connection with that of y ocke was potent spur in his intel V ctual progress. Nevertheless, the :" ,upling of the names of Edwards and II erkeley in Yale University is for more II ian one reason justified It is fit and 'oper that the two most conspicuous > emorial windows in the front wall of e attell chapel should commemorate u ese two illustrious philosophers The e ,be Bishop of Cloync. man lifted 2 ,ove all ecclesiastical prejudice. hav- q g been disappointed as to his project " r founding at Bermudas a college for T a education of Indians, not only es- p blished here a Scholarship which a ars his name, but also sent over to d' ( College q gift of one thousand well tN osen volumes,--thc largest single col ef ,tion of of books that had ever been ir ought to America. On the window i sf voted to his honor, the words are in- ,11