Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-08-07
MODERN VIEW Of I
RELIGION TOPIC
OF COAST PASTOR

Taking The Modern Point Of View
In Religion" as his topic, DR.. Ray
mond c. Brooks, the popular Berkeley,
Cal, pastor, spoke on, Sunday night
before an audience which nearly fill
ed the Opera House, the address prov
ing probably the most interesting OF
its kind which has been delivered by
the minister since his arrival in Ho-
-nolulu.
Aside from the address al excellent
musical program was rendered. Mrs
Charles L. Hall sang Tilzers The
Eternal City as an offertory, and
quartet composed OF Messrs. Hall.
Barnes, Livingston and SOper sang
Holy Ghost With Divine Light"
. The Scriptural reading was given
by Rev. S. X. Kamaiopili. Richard H.
Trent delivered the invocation and
Pastor David Cary Peters offered
prayer. DR. Brooks said, in part:
Tonight let me try to interpret the
influence of the scientific movement.
The profound difference between the
old world of thought in which our
fathers lived and the new world Of
thought into which, we have come is
due to the application Of scientific
method. Our fathers reasoned from
dogmas assumed to be true. We are
taught to reason from facts establish
ed beyond controversy. The scien-
tific movement assumes that the mind
OF man is made to know the truth Of
God, and that il we will sit down pa.
tiently and persistently and lovingly
To- If ~ Of 70 IN
are likely to reach some conclusions
that are worth while. This move
ment assumes that this is the only
way in which we are likely to come.
to know the truth; that it is always
safe to know the truth, and that moth
ing else is safe. The theology of our
grandfathers has passed away be-
cause it was based upon the unscien-
tific view of the Bible and an almost
entire ignorance of the history of 9TH
er religions. n.
I'm like manner our thoughts have
been enlarged when we think in
terms OF time. Not so many years
ago men believed that the earth was
not more. than 5000 years old; history
was a snug little affair which could
be compressed within a few thousand
years. Now we are sure that man is
at least 100000 years old. and the uni
verse nobody knows how many mil
lion. '......... ---. f.. +
.tOut of this great scientific move
ment has come the historical and crit;
zeal movements because of which his
tory, has been rewritten. Christianity
is imbeddeA, in history. Jesus is a
historical character. He is not to be
understood nor is the movement
which sprang from him to be rightly
Interpreted apart from a knowledge
of the, history, in which he and it
shared. J. - ~ H.. $50 e.. :. ..-.-
Taking THE Modern oPint OF View
our religious" ideas became inevitable
because everywhere, we are thinking
in scientific terms, and the ideas OF
our grandfathers In religion were de-
termined by an unscientific view OF
the universe, an unhistoricaissview OF
man by an nncriticaI view OF the
Bible, and by lack of knowledge Of
other religions? But 1t: is profound
lg Interesting and. significant to- dis
cover that the religious ideas to which
the scientific movement has intro
dueedi US. while they differ widely
from those OF Calvin and of Luther,
are in accord with thoseaof Jesus."is