The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-07
FORMER STATE OFFICIAL
ADDRESSES THE Y. NJ. c. A.
Modern Creeds Contrasted with
Former Beliefs by Ex-Attorney
General Baldwin.
SAYS BIBLE IS IMPROVED

Former Attorney General D. P. Baldwin.
of Logansport. addressed large audience
Of men at Y. ". c. A. Hall yesterday aft
ernoon- His subject was The Master"
Mr.. Baldwin is very forcible speaker and
his remarks made a decided impression on
his audience.
Men and women will think and think
wrong as well as right" said he. 1.-THE
thought of the last forty years, and espe-
cially the scientific thought, has been very
destructive to dogmas and theological
theories. Many ideals have fallen. MAIN
tain that upon the whole the result of the
new thought has been beneficial. 1t has
given US a better God concept than we
have ever had before.
1T has eliminated Jonathan Edwards
and given US a God OF love instead of
God of fear and hate. L do not wish to
idealize the worlds goodness nor minimize
its badness. Great slices OF China worth
billions OF dollars have been appropriated
by Germany because OF its horror at the
lawless murder of one of its missionaries.
The murder was merely a pretext for
robbery which dwarfed the original Of
Tense and which would otherwise have
taken place without any excuse.
The new thought has given US better
Bible than we have ever had before. Thanks
10 the movement within the church. the
higher criticism has removed from the
sacred book a mass of dead matter. The
ultimate fact OF religion is that God is and
that He rules this world; that man was
made In His image and may and does COM
nunicate with Him. and that every one
or our lives are divine plans. All of which
the new thought brings out with increasing
vividness upon the sacred pages. Under
the influence of this same new thought
the Bible is found 10 be an inexhaustible
fountain OF spiritual life. We may not ac-
cept the story of Adam and Eve and the
Garden OF Eden, but all the same the
greater thought-'So God made man, in
His own image made He him, and man
became a living soul'-cheers and COM
forts US That man was made in the image
past and makes possible the greater civil
hzation or the future. That man was
made in the image of God places us beyond
the power OF death.
Under the. influence OF the new thought
the character. life and words of our
Savior have a vitality and power and are
And while IL is true that faith begins where
reason ends, and reason enlarges its
domain that OF faith lessons, still there are
now; always have been and always will
by faith. On account OF its limitations
reason deals only with this world. But
whose life is bounded by four-score years
and does not take hold of the hereafter.
Science can see nothing beyond the grave,
nor any personality in the Deity.
THE best definition science eau give of
God is the power. not ourselves, which
makes for righteousness Faith substi-
tutes for power a person and makes that
person the father of our spirits and sees
In the incarnation that divine person
manifest I'm the flesh. Faith also gives us
Immortality. The head and heart are the
pensable as the other. Both are necessary
10 the complete manhood or womanhood.
The one gives science. the other reIi-
gfon. Both are compliments OF each other;
both are equally Indispensable and the COM
plete man or woman cultivates them
equally"