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tributes Of both mind and matter,
thought and extension.
b. Materialistic pantheism as
cribes to universal being only the at.
tributes Of matter, and David Freder-
lex straus, a German nationalist who
from 1903 to 1874, was the great
champion of this theory.
! c. Idealistic pantheism ascribes to
the universal being only the attrib-
|utes of mind; and William Frederick
Hagel, German theorist who lived
from 1910 to 1881, developed this idea.
Thus the unbelieving mind has been
rejecting the plain truth revealed in
the Sacred Scriptures, and although
they have been ever learning, they
have not been able to come unto the
knowledge Of the truth, as Paul tells
US.
These modern champions Of pathe.
ism have some dreamy followers in
America who are not aware that it is
simply Hindoo patheism transplanted
to western lands.
These people who forsake the church
are content to wear the cast-o6 gar
ments of pagan lands, although they
ware a1uavs m;sH<s
The Schaff- Herzog encyclopedia
says: "In India the original pan
theistic conception Of God as the vivi-
flying powers of light and heat, grad
ually changed under the overwhelmn-
ing impression Of the vegetative pro.
burst forth form the cmfwy hrdl mfw
ductivity of the soil. As plants burst
forth from the earth In astounding mu
titudes, only to stay little while,
and then return to the earth again
giving room for new multitudes, so
gods and men, animals and plants,
iespe forth from the bosom Of Brahma,
not to stay and persevere in there
diversity, but soon to sink back again
into the souzc| from when they came,
the one absoiote beng In which there
is no form, no difference, no change"
As tho varor ariseth from the sea
only to make the ,ci.cuit Of the clouds
and: rivers back into the sea, or as .
wave lifts up itself for a moment
only to sink back again into the ocean;
so man and all animate and vegeta.
BILE life and all material things are
but evanescent manifestation Of tho
one reality into which they soon dis
appear-man and all things consti.
int Coz, and. in, God. thsys ,haxa al,,
avs existed and always will exist, as
a drop exists in the ocean-we arc
simply parts of God.
This gross pagan philosophy, one
way and another, has debased man
into brotherhood with the clod he
treads upon, taking away individual
responsibility, blinded the eyes to the
even affirming that there is no good
and no evil and paroled human am.
bition after individual, personal and
conscious Immortality.
This pagan delusion which has dark
ened the human mind and sunk ma
tions into despair has for centuries
tried to domicile it.elf in Christianity
by way Of the doctrine Of Gods ON
nipresence which is corrupted into
meaning his substance is infinitely ex-
tended space.
The first sentence Of the Bible, "In
the beginning God created the heavens
and the arth," puts an effectual bar
rier in the way Of any possible eonfus.
ion of God and the universe Ee ere.
ated; and throughout the whole of
scripture this barrier is made stronger.
Pantheism in all It's forms an6 under
whatever name it rs disguised is only
a ubtle form Of unbelief in any real
and living God to whom man is re.
sponsible, and it is wholly antichrist.
Christians are Theists or such as be.
lieve that the universe owes its or.
igin and continued existence to the
wisdom and will Of the Supreme, Per
sonal, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Un.
changeable, Righteous, Benevolent,
Spiritual Being who is distinct from
and independent Of what he has Gre
ated-as much so as q man is Distinct
from the mouse ne oullas.
This God can be known to man
more through his spiritual sensibili.
tiles than through his intellect, for
man cannot by finite intelligence
hope to find out the infinite God to
perfection.
In lisa. $3.50 We read, Gas the heav.
ems are higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your ways, and
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