The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-28

lists. Great hops have ben en,.-.io..
that by laboratory methods' the nuy,.
OF the soul could h. determined an ,,o-.
that the nature OF God inferred KtI
though tho soul II said 10 ha-. -.
weighed tamOunting to thre-.f..r-as ~,
IN ounce in fact. the-. new ths-oA,Sa.n,
have hardly met with results sv~. .r..-., >
encourage them in this research i..vs-.
the limits 81 human eEUsTl"nca La
have not made any clearer the war,
of personal religious eNy@Tenc. b., ....,
the individual eecap~- from the ! .-r. -.
ton Of transitory things Il ma. K.n
~ that tn" present condition 81 ..s. .,l--.
ment - due To- the discovery rnr "a,
mad. fully conscious 10 rs. that tie A..
brew idea in Christianity u aL~u - Oh,
race. All Semitic faiths are ba,..f In..
revelation The Jews never t.g.y.4
anything which they could not ...i.,.
stand They did not DESIRE rhs,-v
That was left for the gentle word a,
which we arr
A man NAV be religious withou' ra.ns
a scholar. but he cannot be a rcho.,
without being religious II Is a Ind.
mental fallacy that a theology oan n.
created unless the spirit Of religion n.
spires or that either can endure w!tha,
an ecclesiastical organization 4 church
IL repository for religion. a means n
carving out Gods work in the world nv
the perfecting Of the indiy dual bat "A
the spirit decays it, place is taken hv "a.
institution In periods Of great th~olos.
iual dissolution like the present there !.
always slack ening Of ecclesiastical
organization: but Il 10 not the distinctly.
marx Of q religious man that he stAv,
away from church. Men stay from
church either because their intelhceno.
IL offended or because they receive m
pleasurable stimulation OF their religious
sense for the same reason that -ansibl.
men do not go TO q theatre which doe,
not stimulate a feeling for music Or
dramatic action. The true explanation
OF private devotion and public worship
- that the artificial creation Of an emotion
will bring about the condition - mind
from which that emotion normally arisss
Thus person may be cow inced that God
can exist very well without the orertns
Of human praise and prayer; and vet he
practise the repetition OF the Lords
Prayer in a mechanical way as dsvic~
against sleeplessness he IL very liable 10
experience a sensation Of comfort
The two little acts Of alteration and
prayer might conceivAbly lead 70 ire
quent attendance upon public worshlp.
" here the sight Of others under the lnfu-
ence % religious emotion would produos
its effect by contagion. Professionalism
a. a means Of ministering 20 this human
need for religious Observance has failsd.
and it's weakness to-day II due 20 the fss
that its mInistrants are not entirely con.
vlnced that they no longer retain Anv
priestly quality, and for lack of that con.
viction thew have not wholly deyeloped
he quality Of minister Being uncertain
q their vocation. they have jumped 10,
the conclusion that their business IL tho
.stant churches are usually empty
t.ven II they were in possession q IdeAS
i would not follow that men would ~
drawn TO them. That il why Catholic
churches are always full. because they
nave no IDEAS % propagate but AFFORD a
place Of calm for the senses. a retreat from
he world Of thought, an incentive TO Wor-
'hip for which the soul yeArns. a stimulus
pr that reli gious emotion which suiuses
IA. whole being and translates the world
4 reality into the sphere Of imAginAtion
When all theological systems have been
educed to a condition % huidity and hui
nd continuous flowing a universal church
will formulate itself and all men will b.
lrawn unto IL for the sheer enjoyment n
osing themselves in the Infinite