The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-11-23
CHRISTIAN FAITH DEFENDED
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we do not adduce that as any proof. We do ad
vance as solemn evidences of another world the In
d1sputable existence of a housekeeping cOnscienc
IN the breast of every human being and the AWAY
present, lrreconciable pathways of good and evil
not to mention the intrinsic aspiration of every sou
! Tor supreme Father and its total dependence OF
| Him Nothing exist without cause MI
| Brown When we handle money we know it CAM
from the mint, and from the ground to the mint
when men see mirage it is formed by cOmblna
! lions of vapor, or they could see nothing. Wher
men, raving mad from drink, see fiends around
| them they are caused by the crinkles in the bed
clothes or the paint on the walls. There must be
something to form the apparitlons OF what the eye;
see 10 assert that men and women know nothing
about another world in their daily lives is presump
tuous on Mr.. Browns part. How does he know
what men and women aware of in their own
consciousness! There are spiritual men who give
their lives for Others and there carnal men who
live for themselves alone, desroing their fellow
men all they can of their faith in their Gre
ator. Mr.. Brown should speak for his own ignor-
ance of another world alone not for the ripe
knowledge in possession of his fellow He be-
ing the offspring of apostate Catholics cannon
perence the internal and miraculous eXaltation
that partakers of the penitential graces and the
blessed sacrament of the communion feel. But what
does Mr.. Brown believe? We are weared with
hearing what he docs not believe. By all means
let him change his lectures. He sweeps away the
whole Jewish history, the ten commandments, the
life and miracles of Christ, the old and testa
ments and the holy lives of millions of mission
aries, with all their heroic conquests over pagan
ism and idolatry. Admit that he is right, and we
by no means concede it, we know nothing, and Mr..
Brown becomes our god and savior. Is He an in
fide! If He is He is outside the Christian argu-
ment. Does he believe in an Almighty God as first
cause! If He does where is His god Is he in
ure! If he is, then that brings into different
tleld OF argument. Can the carpenter and the
house he builds be identical or must they be indie
pendent of each other! Let us quote again:
"And what is this imaginary world of which
the whole teaching of orthodoxy proceeds! 1t is
the imaginary World of Christian theology. 1t de-
clares that a personal God at a definite time Gre
ated the world much man builds house.
"This God makes man at the very beginning
with all the powers of mind and body he now pos
sesses. Man becomes a moral being at a single
stride He sins and is thenceforth doomed crea
ture. To be sure, he didn't ask to be created He
had no more sense of the fearful issues of his life
than a newborn babe. But this God of orthodox
teaching cares not at all about that. The scheme
must go through.
But right there is discovered a bunder. This
God didn't foresee what man was going 20 do, and
the whole thing seems likely to prove failure. So
he arranged to have his only Son make good the
Fathers mistake. That Son shall leave heaven.
take upon himself the form of man, live simulated
life among men, seeming to be what he is not, and
finally suffer the very limit of shame and indig-
nity-and then, many shall be willing to ac
cept this sacrifice for their sins shall be saved
that is, shall go to heaven when they die and be
happy ever after
Would Mr. Brown debar His own son from COM
ing into the world because He realizes that that
child may become a murderer. as He has Himself
become an Assassination of faith If not, why not
Mr. Brown does not understand the Christian idea.
He builds man of straw, claims it is the Chris
tan's God and then demolishes it Are differ
and refuse an invitation to an afternoon tea be-
cause monkeys are to be present! Whence came
mans free will to ravish and defour the young
child of loving father and mother, to leave it
its life and childish innocence! Did man create
his own free will Marvellous He should
create, while he is about it, continual happiness for
himself. Mr.. Brown insinuates that the Christian
plan of redemption is afterthought with God;
that sin took Him by surprise, and defeated His
original intentions. and hence the God of popular
theology is not infinite, either III knowledge or in
power. This is another fragrant instance of mis-
representation and of very false reasoning, due
either to ignorance, or intentional malice. Popu-
lar theology teaches nothing like this 1t never af
firms that the redemption became necessary In con
sequence of any original defect in as he came
from his Creator, anything in mans transgres-
sion, that thwarted the original designs of the Gre
ator. If man had not sinned (and only lunatlc
will deny the existence of sin in the world). the re
demption would not have been needed. and would
not have been made, although the Son of God
might have assumed the incarnation not to make
satisfaction for sin, but to elevate and ennoble hui
man nature by its union with God. That man would
sin God knew before He created him. and the de-
sign of redemption through the second person Of
the Trinity was coeval with the divine plan to Gre
ate him. Hence our Lord is called 'the Lamb that
was slain from the foundation of the world" Mr..
Brown is mentally and theologicay in knee
breaches yet, PLAYING marbles. He deplores mater
ialism yet the belief in his senseess attack against
Christianity would place all nations back in Gre
clan and Roman Gentilism with brand new
phitheatre in which to slaughter followers of tie
Crucified. He would reinaugurate the horrible
cruelties of devilish religions" such Buddhism
and Mahommetanism, and the burial rites of Nero
Caesarism.
Mr.. Brown thinks if he is really capable of
thinking, that he breaches pure and lofty moral
ity, yet it is only the morality of the sty the sta
HE and the Jungle of bsrbarsm He deplores the