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September 8, 1909. against it only and solely ly consequences of this h< he ignored the moral cri were we astonished when would not concern themse of those who commit thi when such knowledge wa This is an extreme case institutions would be thi the associations of the stud derelictions that are a sc young. Among these, by spirit of worldliness. \V idle hint is sufficient to nu fully before entering his c - i nere are a plenty of sell which to select. MORE ABOUT "TH Dr. Eliot's address at Summer School of Theolo tised. It consisted of a s< mental Christian truths, a< long ago announced by paj modern infidelity. Decryi chief of dogmatists, withoi authority or argument to si negations consist of the d ligion, a veritable moral a supernatural is totally rejei fication of remarkable hut between God and man. X ncss as tne iruit 01 earthly change of character; no c our frail humanity. Purel love to man is the comprel is positive in this pseudo-r (lent, of course, spoke for 1 ances savor much of an i ting before the public, lit Gladstonian alertness in g he conceives to be new anc But rash as these assun ing to the religious faith ol the highest character and age, they are logically the ern "liberal" teaching whic about Harvard, and on to t imported stock. Let the < posedly Christian teacher granted as premises and tl inevitably follow. It is c respect all sorts of religiov century, but that means th spect the destruction of fai all religion. It may interest our rea men comments of evangel Says the Lutheran: 1. "It will not be bound bj say religion la no longer to be works only. Hence It will ma Bible teachings about God, al demption in Christ, about eterr cepted or not. He who accepti 1 l THE PRESBYTERIi on the ground of the earthorrid sin. In his remarks minality of it. Yet more he declared that his faeultv :lves to seek for knowledge s sin, but would act only s placed before them. We apprehend that few is criminally neglectful -*f lents. But there are minor >urce of temptation to the r no means the least is the e use no space to specify, ike the parent enquire carehild at an unknown school. rvr?1e rvf K?/vU .. ?1 ? ? bii^ii Mtiiiudiu irotn E NEW RELIGION." the close of the Harvard gv, has been widely adverjries of negations of funda:companied by assumptions jail writers and repeated by ng dogma, he becomes the it deigning to furnish either itstain his deliverances. The enial of all authority in rend spiritual anarchy. The cted. There is to be no deinan beings. No mediation o promise of future blessedj; ?_ i! - discipline; no supernatural livine energy wrought into ly natural love to God and tensive summary of all that lew religion. The ex-presitimself alone, and his uttertbnormal fondness for get; has frequently exhibited a etting to the front of what 1 popular movements, lptions may be, and insult: the millions who represent intelligence of this or any "assured results" of modh emanates especially from he westward, but bred from assumptions of certain sups of the liberal school be he conclusions of Dr. Eliot onsidered magnanimous to is opinion in this twentieth at it is magnanimous to reth, and the abandonment of ders to peruse some speciical papers. ' dogma or creed.-' That is to a matter of belief, but of good ke little difference whether the bout man, about aln, about relal life and eternal death, be acb them all Has no better chance \N OF THE SOUTH. of pleasing God and doing His will all. "By their fruits ye shall knc difference does it make whether j cucumber seed, or a poisonous be not believe alike, what's the use c 2. "The new religion will not There will be no supernatural ele liance on anything but the laws < the Bible,?without whose lndire< himself would have walked in da better off than the American Indii Bible. The horizon of our spirit ries fixed by what we can here see this is reducing religion to lowest better off with such a religion thi was before he was transformed by 3. "In the new religion there w markable human beings. God wil intermediary will be needed." Tb the divinity of Christ brought pr wonderful educator indeed who called "the mighty God, the Pr where Christianity with all its re be today if the apostles and all CI ent bad believed as Dr. Eliot does 4. "The new religion will not a to present ills by the promise of I so there is after all no gateway sorrows and sufferings of this pr beyond? Verily, how mistaken mivst have been to hold out to tt the promise of blessedness unspe; sort of religion were to be preach< year, how many people would be to it? 5. All that seems to have a s< this new religion is that it "will 1 commandments"?love to God and God? How are we to know him i can he be revealed If there is no which to read of him? So this n< from faith and brings us to two before these it leaves us helpless to have the flower and the fruit ? cut off from its stem. What a wit soon be. But Dr. Eliot wields an enormo tional world and therein lies the of his before a body of intelligen seldom had a more potent hearing lips. But the Church of Christ wi gospel of Christ and him crucifledfoollshnes8 to men, is yet the pow of God. Between the teachings oi uiau n^aar anu me leacuings OI 1 much as a man, and very otherw: not be difficult for men. who feel i ture, to choose. Really, Dr. Elliot's as old as unbelief itself. The United Presbyterian c< ment: Dr. Eliot, president-emeritus of his light shine along the path of tt a long way from being the light ol undertakes to put himself on a le> in providing a way of redemptioi should be sure that he is the be no s 11 on in not attempt to ieaa his In the heavens, or undertake to d< man race until he has something It is but natural for a creedless p Dr. Eliot's new religion starts on rabble of negations, telling the w lieve. It will not be founded on 4 or spiritual." Therefore this new prophet will have no foundation t< no definition of remarkable hum . 3 than he who rejects them >w them," and hence what rou plant an apple seed, a rry seed. As all men can if believing anything? be based upon authority. >ment; it will place no re)t nature." So away goes .?. i ay ? U1 11*111. UI". C.UOI rkness. Hence we are no in who had nature for his ual world has its boundaand feel and touch. Surely . elements. Are we really in the South Sea Islander the gospel? rill be no deification of re1 be so immanent that no ius with one fell swoop is ostrate. That must be a can unmake him who is ince of Peace." Wonder markable conquests would iristians down to the pres7 ttempt to reconcile people future compensation." And of relief leading from the esent life to joys that lie Jesus and Hts followers le weary and heavy laden akable hereafter! If that ?d in the churches for one left in the pews to listen jmblance of vitality about je based on the two great love to man. But who is f he is not revealed? Howother book but nature in ew religion takes us away great commandments, and and undone. Thus we are )f religion, but it must be Lher?d, wilted thing it will us influence in the educa sadness of this utterance it men. Unitarianlsm haa than it received from hia U go on preaching the old -that gospel which though er of God and the wisdom t one who spake as never Jr. Eliot who speaks very Ise than Jesus did, it will the limitations of their nai new religion is very old? ontains this racv com Harvard, has been letting te immortals; but it comes r the world. When a man 'el with Jesus of Nazareth a for the human race he arer of a divine message, fellow men without a star estroy the hope of the hu a 1? ?*- -? ucvici iu uui iu us place. rophet to cry, "No creed." \ it# career with a merry orld what It must not beauthority, either temporal testament of the Harvard a rest on. "There will be an beings." There will.