Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-12

had when you entered, it is yourself
who is to blame. 1t is you who have
not been able to think it out; you who
have not looked the facts in the face
and you who have not frankly and
honestly sought to find what you were
and what was the attitude of your in
most soul.
| On the other hand if you have not
| during Your college course been led TO
question honestly the fundamental
ideas of Your religion and your souls
status; if you have not boldly held up
to question your own past ideas about
religion and about God, and Gods
existence and Gods character, and if
you have not asked yourself if your
old ideas were true: your older con-
ceptions of the infinite in the light of
the modern ideas of science were cor
rect, then either you have not had the
capacity to think the subject through,
or You have not understood the fun
damentals of human living, or YOU
! have ignored the serious side of the
whole subject and are still where you
were when YOU entered college four
years ago.
If you are still in a position whore
you were years ago with the matter
| still ignored. having made no changes,
no corrections, no additions, no sub
fractions concerning these fundamcn-
tai concepts you will need to be care
full in world hostile and unsympath-
etic
' What has been your college en-
virOnmcnt? You have been presented
with various materiaIistic and philo-
sophical principles which did not coin
I eide with your previous ideas. You
have been introduced to evolutionary
! thoughts concerning organisms and
especially man which seemed to be
; antagonistic to your earlier theories.
; How have you reacted? You have
ibecn surrounded by teachers who have
been sympathetic with you, for they
have experienced what you were ex
periencing. You have had the oppor-
/ tunlty to go to them and ask them
about whatever difficulty you seemed
10 have in correlating your inner ex-
| periences with the seemingly outer
i antaSoniSms. Have you done So?
Have you accepted the scientific prin-
clpleS and not rcadjusted your for
mer ideas, or have you said if scien-
inc facts are true then there is no
correlation of my former beliefs with
them. | will therefore throw awav
my beliefs. If you have done so Won
are in no proper attitude to enter =
hostile world.
1t may be that some Of YOU are inst
now trying to solve this question. II
IS better to take your time in d0ne- If
Better than all if YOU have already de-
cided about it. Il you think that Won
nave decided in way net to agree
with the Psalmist then keep it all to
yourself till you are so.
But you cannot decide wrongly or
IN a way contrary to your innermost
soul decision.
| You become acquainted with vopr
J environment through the sense I'M
pressions that you experience yo,,
taste things, feel things. hear things
see things and do not need to have An
other decide on these matters for va,
! II is IN the same way YOU sonso C.od
IL IS not by these physical molecular
impressions yon find him out When
the Master said the kingdom of Cod
/ IS within YOU, he meant also to sIr-
Sest that we sense Him through tho
sense organs of the within Won We
cannot reason Him out. We can univ
experience Him.
God is in His heaven. Ais right
with tho world
| Again, I do not believe tbot or, oro
] Of YOU can say that professo, e.o ~
20 attitude about the question of
Iod maze You decide to be agnostic.
III so you have not understood him
ana before you go out Of this co,Iego
on Your voyage of life Won should Go
to him and personally find ont rhat
ne meant. 1on can so easily vrong
the college and the indi--iduaIs IN II
py cariess report about such funda-
mental matters. Mr.. Bryan's recent
lectures are instances of inst such
looseness of report.
God is the same yesterday today
and forever but in old Testament
times was God fathnro Gan vo,,
imagine the Cod of your ideal more
perfect than perfect father? Has
there been any evolution of God in
your mind? Is he the same to YOU
today that he was when you entered
college? Can you consider~him in
any more perfect way than to attri-
! butte to him the name of father? Not
J T., L
Father. BY all the tests of an inner
personal experience you know him
and know him as such.
Why should l be biologist. one
whom some of you have considered
Goddess because 1 have told you of
mechanistic PHILOSOPHERS and evolu-
tionary concepts, why should | urge
YOU toward faith in God? Because
il believe that there is no more
necessary knowledge for you to have