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that they are not SO even as to enlight-
eminent or counsel in spiritual things.
Attack Not Dangerous.

ALCaCk MOI DANGEROUS.
The Ten Great Wonders of the Bible
was the subject of Rev DR.. Leech He
declared that DR. Eliots utterances have
profoundly affected Unitarian ministers
and laymen In all parts of the country.
This attack of ex-President Eliot on
the divine inspiration of the Bible and the
creeds so cherished by trinitarian church
organizations. he said, does not be-
| come dangerous because of its literary or
theological strength, for in itself it is
one of the weakest and most common
place oratiOns of agnoStic!sm and skeptf-
cism associated with modern scholarship.
Many a college freshman can formulate
better creed than DR.. Eliot has systema-
tized In his outline of his principles of
peril TO the orthodox faith of young men
arises from the splendid personality back
Of this strange address. He is an illus
trfous scholar and majestic man. His
character is as pure as a diamond of the
first water. His reputation for the pos
session of sterling virtues is as untarnish-
ed as a cube Of crystal. Because of his
great intellectual achievements and hts
worldwide influence. the press associa-
lions have flashed his remarks to all Of
the great newspapers of the land.
when any analytical scholar reads DIR.
EliOts consensus of his new religion he
will quickly perceive that it is in direct
opposition to the teachings of the New
lie that the new religion is to have no
divine or human authoritative construc-
ton. And yet the New Testament pro-
claims that the synopsis of dogmas en-
bodied IN the Apostles Greed for GEN.
turtles past has divine authoritative
origin.
Gods Final Revelation.
DIR. Eliot informs us that religion is
not fixed, but fluent, and 1t changes from
century to century All trinitarian bodies
understand that the New Testament is
Gods final revelation of His will to the
human race. It's great doctrines are as
immutabie as .Ararat Christ and His
apostles made them permanent and
changeless. The consultations that adorn
the dome of the night are not more abid-
ing than the fundamental doctrines that
DIR. Eliot omits to name in his abstract
Of articles incorporated into his new re-
ligion.'
HE assures us tina. 1t will not at
tempt to reconcile people to present ills
by the promise of future compensation.
The trend of the Scriptures favors this
reconciliation. They constantly tell us
that Affections. heroically and submissive
ly endured for the divine honor, enhance
heavenly felicity after the mortal life is
ended. Paul speaks the sentiments of the
Bible when he elouuently informs his
friends at Corinth that, Our light aff1ic-
ton, which Is but for a moment, worketh
for us far more exceeding and eternal
weight Of glory, while we look not at the
things which are seen, but at the things
that are not seen: for the things which
are seen are temporal, but the things that
are not seen are eternal
Regarded as Sacrilege.
DIR. Spooner ridiculed Dr. Eliots as
sertion that the new religion will have
nothing to do with sorrow and death. but
will deal only with joy and life. He de-
clared that this. belief verges on actual
sacrilege. and is palpably misleading and
calculated only to catch the eye Of the
unwary. for true religion has everything
to do with sorrow and death, because it
lightens the pangs of the former and
eliminates the fear of the latter.
DR.. Spooner concluded by calling at
tention to a further claim made by Dr.
Eliot for the new religion: that it will
not be rounded on anything resembling
the supernatural. but will take it's in
spiration from the workings of nature
In answer to this he said that a careful
analysis of the Christian religion reveals
nothing that can be classed with what Is
known as the supernatural, for the reason
that as God Is nature, no act of God can
be construed as other than natural.