The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-27
(NeW York WOrld.)

III when LIZ. 'cOIS sc ~ Lily L .
dent Emeritus of Harvard University.
yesterday prophesied the advent Of a
new religion, in his talk to the Har-
ward summer school, was made public
in full today. In it DR.. Eliot said:
AS students in this curse you
have attended 4 series Of lectures on
popular education and the modern
spirit of inquiry, on religious depart
ments and organizations. You have
also listened to lectures on psycho-
therapy, and by that | mean the scier-
I tific doctrine. which after fifty years
has ~perceptibly modified the eXpecta-
tons of thinking people.
THE general impression you have
received from this course u surely
be that religion as ~personified is not j
fixed but a fluent thing. 1t is. there
fore, wholly natural and to be txpect-
ed that the religious conceptions re
yalent among people should change
from century to century. Now the
nineteenth century UNNECESSARILY sur
passes all preceding centuries in the
increase of knowledge, the spread u
scientific inquiry and the passion for
truth seeking. Hence the change IN
the relation Of the church to thu man
IN this century is more extensive than
ever before in the history Of the
world.
New Religion is Defined.
81 shall attempt to state without re-
serve, very simply and without tech
nicalitieS:
First, what the new religion will
not be.
Secondly, what it may be rcasona-
bly, expected to be.
INV point Of view is tina of a we'll
read American layrnan whose OhSerV-
ing powers have been exercised OYER
the remarkable period covering the
time when the United States went TO
war with Mexico. the time e J. ;.
Mear's Principles OF POLITICAL Econ
omy' was issued, and mechanical
power came to be widely distributed
by the explosive engine
The decline Of respect for authority,
DR.. Eliot said. was evidently today in
government, in education. IN the
church, in business and in the fem
mime. This. he said, would be one
of the characteristics OF the new re
ligion.
Continuing, he said:
Secondly. it is hardly necessary to
say that in the new religion there viii
5e no personifications OF primitive
forces such as earthquake, frost ami
light. There will be no deificati0r Of
remarkable human beings, or worship
Of ancestors or rules.
Personal Welfare An Incident.
Another point in the new religion
will be that there will not be the per
sonar WelIdre ana lnuiN1UQdl safety
now dWelt upon. That safety, that vel
fare, that salvation, may be incidental
ly secured, but it will not b the prin-
cipal thing held up in view.
The new religion Will not impress
one with the necessity Of his own vel
fare or security, but with services to
others. u
again. the new religion will n)t be
propitiatOry, sacrificial or eXpiat0ry.
In inferior society the supernatural
powers were the root Of he religion.
Not only the doctrines but the princi-
pies of the Christian church are full Of
eXpiatOry sacrificeS-mostty vicariOuS.
"The new religion Will nor entertain
the Hebrew anthropomorphic repre-.
sensations Of God. The new religion
will not think of God as an enlarged,
glorified mar who walks in tn gar
den in the cool of the day.-or as a
judge deciding between human liti-
giants.
Having thus considered what the
new religion will nc be. let US now
consider what its positive elements
will be.
THE new thought of God viii be the
most characteristic element in the new
religion. The multiDlicat'0E II any
BODY Of all the noblest. leEGerest and
highest qualities which man has ever
been or imagined in a human being
must be the new religion. In this sense
every man makes his wv God aid
from it, b~arbarous or civilized, happy
or unhappy, improving or degenerate
ing, forms his own GOD out of his
own experience and giningS
God Revealed Through the Soul.
IF now man discovers Zoe
through self-consciOusness, or in 9TH
er words, if it is the human soul at
it's best through which God is revealed,
and the race has come to the knowl-
edge of God through knowledge of it
self, the best knowledge of God comes
from the knowledge Of the best races.
In the crisis of the losing battle it
is the human soul that inspires the
fleeing troops. 1t looks out of flash
ing eyes and speaks in ringing tones,
but its appeal is to their souls not to