New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-12
NJ. ELIOT ROUSES
I THEOLOGICAL GALE
,a.as on twentieth Cent
ury Religion" Raped
by Clergymen'
GOLD AND HARD,
SAYS DR., EATON
o.s,i Silyermau Defends Edu-
Gator as Advocate OF
Rational Belief.

.-..,tie;h Century Religion As
nv pr. Charles W Eliot presi-
,'P'',, ,,eritps Of Harvard University
os'' ....elv criticised 10y New York
'...,,ofn YESTERDAY. Some sS'o pr
c 80 leaning toward an admission
-. divinity Of christ when he elected
o .n God ~Our Father Others said
70 ,n.,y restatcd New ENGLAND Uni
srianisn ,,,.o-.of tho
,.s,sor Avenue Baptist church. de
- .ha, pr Eliot was great ana
- man and ycry able educator. hut
~,.r, poor theolosian
-. Rev pr Joseph l.. SilVerman.
-, ~ remple EMANUEL. Fifth avenue
ga street. said pr Eliot VAS right.
ss,.e religion. ne said. Is the result
scis,,ifc thought of men like pr.
-, 10 concurrcd With Dr Eliot in
-. h.lief mai the Jews did right when
-, rejected the doctrine Of Christ :
v.ssishship. the Immaculate conception
- mans atonement for sin.
~ Tatons answer 20 DIT Eliot was
!, mart IS follows.
Tritarismsm has failed I'm the United
States Many wears ago Ernest Renan
...si,tsd ifs failure because. In his
,.,rrsre. IL undertook 10 have religion
.,,bout mystery. rationalism without
.-;,,eisn. high intellectual culture with
.u,acsiry. As am institution Unitarian
j, had the best start Of any religious
IA, n recent times But. in spite OF
,.,i,l financial intellectual and moral
,..sf,ge. a. has fallen fast and pitifullN
.sind while the people who believe IN
"a sc God Almighty. tie Ruler Of the
f,ivsrse as tho personal Father. who
,,.aied men. who rules them. who loves
sad iudges them. who has redeemed
hen through the yiCsrious atonement
ri,,n hy his divine Son. Jesus christ.
A.. craving more powerful all the time.
To reduce religion TO the bones Of
eold in;ellectualism is TO have no re
nrion al all. There IS much in Or.
yroi's address Of worth and value. but
10 make the religion which he presents
ihs foundation OF our whole life is TO
All into the blacklist failure and de-
spsir.
such religion is nothing more nor
kss than New England Unitarianism in
he best clothes-Nery learned. very cold
and very futile. il will never send forth
Missionaries nor found institutions. nor
rs1ire reformations. IL will appropri-
a., what IS brought to II by positive
s.hierements in every walk Of life. but
hss nothing 70 give I'm return.
Itisa pity when the world is ask
n for bread that We should persist in
,rline 10 q stone
Dr. SHERMAN compared present day
raisrianism 10 the Judaism OF two
thousand years ago. saying the two were
similar and that the Christian world is
coming to recognize that il mas perse-
ssisd the Jews under a fallacy
Religion Of to-day he said. is the out
cone OF scientific thought OF such men
as Dr. Eliot. who. he said. believes that
ne Jews. when they refused 10 accept
ne Messiahship Of Christ. the virgin
birth and the belief that a man could
alone for the sins Of the world by his
osaih did right
The telief in the divinity Of Christ,
b said. rises out Of ancient Greek myth
oiosy Concurring with Or. Eliot. he
ald Christianity will I'm time have only
The IDEALS embodied 60 the fatherhood of
Goo the brotherhood OF man and the
'ihlcs OF Moses and the prophets.