The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-05
ALL MYSTERY IS
NOT IN RELIGION
DR.. Hunt Says Things All
About Us Are just as
Hard to Understand.
PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO KNOW
Think Unwisely that Reli-
gion and knowledge
Are Opposed.

Both Services Speaks of Need of
Prayer and Christians Belief in
Jesus.
Faith and knowledge, the two indis-
pensible elements in the spiritual life
end their relation to each other form
cd the theme of a magnificent sermon
by DR.. Hunt, president of the Dennison
college at Grandville, at the Trinity
BAPTIST church yesterday morning.
The morning lesson was chosen from
Pauls letter to Athehians i'm which
he said, THAT Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith to the end
that ye, being rooted and grounded i'm
lave may be strong to apprehcnd with
an the saints what is the breath and
length and height and depth. ana to
know the love of Christ which passcth
knowledge that we may be filed unto
az the fullncss of God" the words
.ct which We're. said the speaker, an
attempt TO put into words an incxpres-
slble experience of the apostle who
was craving that same deep expert
ence for his fellow men.
Dr. Hunt said:
"The first step into deep rcll-
gious experience is to know something
There are two sets Of people who
think that knowledge is unnecessary
The first composes the anti-religionists
and they say if you go in for religion
you must discard yoar knowing apar-
atus. They would post over the door
TO the entrance to a religious life,
there Is no place here for reason. our
reason is n part Of us. God never
give us anything that was not to be
used The trouble with us is we don't
use our reason enough. Most of us
think till we get hold of little end
or an idea then quiet. We don't pur-
sue till we get an idea and then apply
It
What is the basis Of the idea that
religion and reason won't work. There
are those who confusctthe correct and
Incorrect use of reason. Reason. alone
won't get us anywhere. ltirst we must
get facts then our reason ogglnzes
them in their relation TO each other,
Facts are better got by fingers than
by reason but after we have secured
those facts the reason takes hold Of
them and classldes them.
Suppose one Of you is curious to
know what | know about something
temporarily interesting. Suppose you
go to reasoning about It, You might
make shrewd guess, but unless you
can gather facts by your association
and observation Of me, your reasoning
would be useless. You don't know un-
less | tell YOU / may not tell YOU In
words, but your eyes may gather, the
facts and my actions may tel you
what you are endeavoring to learn.
Then your reason sets to work on those
facts
what does God think in that realm
OF spiritual life? | can not reason out
lis thoughts, but when he tells me,
may then take hold of it and Apply it
to the problems of personal life. The
man who says reason IS of no good in
the spiritual life cant assemble and
work out the spiritual facts that are
given him. Tie man who is trying to
re ason out the thoughts Of God has
his reason on the wrong job.
1--WE must first gather our facts,
many of which come to us by revela-
tion. The religionists have tried to
tell us that there Is no place for
knowing. We have had the fear that
ife we knew more we'd believe less
afraid to learn lest we should lose
some of the previous things that have
come down to us. We are afraid OF
losing our mothers faith. You can't
lose your mothers faith for you never
had It.. We have only our own. We
can adopt our mothers position, but
faith Is not transferable or loaned,
and | can't live by anybody e!ses
faith Just can't lose your mothers
fsith, you hadn't it. You may discover
that you never had any at all, then
you may get some by experience.
"The first step in acquiring faith is
To know something, to think things,
the not to be discouraged ana stop,
The man who says that religion is
is too deep to get into Is afflicted with
mental la2ness. The man who says
he is afraid to 90 too deep into reli-
gion is afflicted with moral cowardice.
That mental and moral struggle into
the depths OF religion is worth while
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