The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

fail to ask: did our Lord Jesus Christ
come to this earth to establish this
pitiful mob Of debating societies, or
church Of the living God capable Of
making itself felt as a pillar and q
ground of the faith9'"
' Unrest and Hunger.
Rev. Mr.. Stowe says that there IL
great unrest and hunger In the Protest
ant world today that refuses to be al
layed by the chipperings Of critical
paroquets, or the buzzing Of esthetic
gadfies. The Rev. Mr.. Stowe describes
the insignifcance Of the Plymouth col
ony in numbers and material wealth.
and says:
How then account for tho stupend-.
GUS influence which this tiny common
wealth has exerted and still exerts on
the history Of mankindf There il one.
and only one, possible answer to this
question. It was their devotion to the
invisible, the eternal, the moral order
Of the universe, the glory Of God! They,
endured, and yet endure, az seeing him
who is invisible!
t'All the history Of mankind for them
conferred about his cradle and his Gross,
and for them there were none Of those
unusual benefits and privileges, which
we enjoy in this enlightened age, Of being
Illuminated by the dark wisdom Of the
blind moles and bats Of goddess,
Christless scholarship that burrows in
the holy ground Of Sinai and Calvary
alike, finding there only common dirt.
What Emerson Says.
"Mr. Emerson remarks in his ESover-
eighty Of Ethics:
f' Luther would cut his hand off
sooner than write theses against the pope
if he suspected he was bringing on with
all his might the pale negations of Bos-~
ton Unitarianism.' In the same spirit
and with the same limitations with
which Mr.. Emerson's remark is to be
understood by discriminating readers,
I say that our Puritan fathers never
would have made the break that they
did with Catholic Christianity could
they have foreseen a result thereof
the Christless, moribund, frigid, fruit
less Professionalism that can contribute
neither warmth, life, Inspiration nor
power to lift us above the weight and
WEAKNESS of sin. --,-: ,..--q
"Thank God this is not true Of all
Professionalism The great doctrines of
Catholic Christianity are still believed
and preached in many Of our churches.
'fBut alas! it is only too true that
the heavenly city, which our Puritan
fathers yearned for, and sought with
prayers and tears, has become to many
Of their Christless descendants frigid
city of ice palaces; built Of pale mega
tions, cold, cherries, shining in a pale
winter sun with an evanescent glitter
of doubtful and unsubstantial intel
lectual worth.
As Icebergs Melt.
| GAS the icebergs from tho frozen
north float with the ocean currents
only to be melted and disappear In tas
warm waters Of the equator, so shall
these transcendental ice mountains melt
1 in the warmer currents that the Holy
Spirit will bring to human hearts from
our crucifed but now risen and gloriAsd
Lord. &c..
"The full, rich, glorious Christ of
Catholic Christianity has been dragged
from his throne by these advanced
thinkers GOOD save the marki) and re-
duced to beggary. A pale, bloodless,
emaciated Syrian ghost, he still dimly
haunts the 10y corridors Of this twenti-
eth century Professionalism, from which
1 the doom Of his final exclusion has been
already spoken.
"Then in their boundless arrogance
and self-assertion they turn upon those
of us who still cry with Thomas before
the Risen One, My Lord and my God,
!, and tell us that there is no middle
ground between their own vague and
sterile rationalism and the Roman Gath
olic church. If this be SO, then for me
most gratefully and lovingly I turn to
the church of Rome as a homeless
houseless wanderer to home in con-
tinuing city.
Hungry for God.
"We are hungry for God, yea, for the
living God, and hence so restless and
: dissatisfied. The husk Of life's fruit is
growing thicker, and its meat thinner
and dryer every day for the vast ma.
!. jority of our people. In many and i'm.
portant respects life was brighter in the
so-called Ozark Ages than it is today.
$ The seamless robe of Christ is rent into
2 hideous fragments and trampled in the
dirt.
cit is not all good that we have in.
= herited from our Puritan and Pilgrim
sires. We have been talking about civil
e and religious liberty as if that were
I the only thing in the world.
'"tNoting the use the average man and
woman makes of this boosted liberty
!; today, one is inclined to think it would
!, be far better for them if they had les
: liberty and more law
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