The St. Louis Republic., 1904-05-30

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Father and Of the Son and OF the Holy
Ghost" Matt. Xxyiu. l9.
He said. !E part:
The church sets arart one Sunday os
the year 10 crnphasiz. the idea oc God as
Trinity. This is often thought OF IS I
dry theological dogma. having little to DO
with life and conduct. Ministers have
often helped this idea by speaking OF the
Trinity as = mystery !nCO'up-ehcusitie to
reaSCu and accepted traGsc"nGearalIy by
faith. Whereas the triustaTian conception
OF God is that which is most sUpremely
satisfactory TO the reason and IS mys-
teripus only as al ultimate truths have an
Infinite meaning too complex and vast TO
come fuily within the ic!d uf our present
comprehension
Nor IS this truth simply a theological
abstraction, but one OF supreme practical
Importance to the religious life. For the
r'HS1oGS consciousness must think Cf God
in such 4 manner as shall simulate love
and DUTY and Obedience. faith and hope
and charity. one might think OF God
a. tho ultimate source of all being with
out stimulating the religious consciousness
AT all. While the thought or God rs one,
the unity OF God. HaS d great AID nereE-
SaTy step II religion, u has always proved
Inadequate to touch the heart and will
Therefore Christ meant something su-
prem'ly practical when De Taught his dis
S.p'eS 70 baHtize In the name Of Father,
Man fiuIs even lg dealing with his frl-
low-nan thLt lie IS dealing with three
liHcrent men IN one. lie finds all his
dealing ineffective I'M he understands this
fact. There is, first. the man ui iutclli-
gence-ct cold, calm reason. This is tho
mon VINO works OUT "A sum IN arllhTctiC
who IS dominated BY logic. who knows
that two and two make FOUR that like
causes produce like effects. But this man
Of mathematics and logic and cause and
Ef ar.H ~
vixen his feelings are aroused Touch his
heart and hc OFT fOrgvtS his logic. II MS
feelings do his reason diSCredit we call IL
prejudice; IL credit. We call him sylnpa-
Jhsuc But ia either event We find the
man touched BY emotion or feeling diff
fercnt man.
But in our dealing we find it not srif-
ncient TO convince his reason and kinjlH
his feeling. We must arouse also - motor
impulse. stimulate his Will. Many Il nan
OF good intelligence and kindly feeling
does little good In the world because Ge
has 4 feeble and unCultiy1trd Will Ills
Intentions are good. but he DOES not carry
them out.
we find our felIow-man. thon a trinity
OF reason. affection and VIII. Yet no man
ever expresses; himself In one OF thsS.o
personalities alone No 1ct Of reason Is
ever UnacCompauied 10y feeling or Will: no
emotion but IS in some sense begOtt-n
of reason and stimulltivc 10 purpose; 10
assertion of VIII but proceeds from Te1-
son and feeling.
Man has. therefore, IN his life three
centcrs of beng and manifestation; Vet
these ccnterS are never entirely separate:
they are blended in q mystic unity. Whit
man nnds as matter OF experience in
himself and in his fellOwn1ln he finds rs
an historic manifestation in tho life Of
God. He finds behind the phenomena Of
the objective world supreme intelligence
logical. CausIl. mathematical. Blended
with this, especially IN the life OF man.
an affection dDielicrattng 'he harsh con-
oitionS OF logic. guarding the young and
helpless. binding into fellowship and svn-
q Ia sfY-
in the sur-e1nely unSelfiSh and slCrit,ciIl
life Of Jesus. Along with these a superb
exhausted. nevsr-tircd energy. an
l-earing as force in the unconscious world
rising to will Gno enthusiasm in man.
Taking each OF these At their highest
Christ gathers them into one and bids