,the ,things ,which ,remain  ,an        
,address ,to ,young ,ministers   ,by    
,,daniel ,a4 ,,goodsell   ,a ,bishop of 
the ,methodist ,episcopal ,church       
,,cincinnati3 ,,jennings  ,,pye ,,new   
,,york3 ,,eaton  ,,mains  ,copyright1   
#aijd1 by ,,jennings ,,and ,,pye        
,,preface   ,this little book contains  
the larger part of an address ,i have   
delivered at several ,annual            
,conferences on the occasion of the     
admission of probationary ministers into
 full membership4 ,at the suggestion of 
some who have heard it when delivered   
and whose assurance that it would be    
useful in print ,i am bound to respect1 
,i have consented to its publication4   
,matter not directly relating to the    
theme1 but of sufficient importance to  
accompany it in addressing an ,annual   
,conference1 is here omitted1 that all  
possible space might be given to the    
discussion of the question1 ,how much   
,christian doctrine will still remain1  
though much of the most radical         

criticism be accepted8     ,preface     
,it will be understood that concessions 
made for the sake of the argument by no 
means represent my own views of that    
which must be ultimately yielded to the 
critical spirit4  ,already some opinions
 which threatened the authority of      
,gospels and ,epistles1 and which have  
had wide acceptance1 have been modified 
or withdrawn4 ,my aim in this address   
was not to scout criticism1 from which  
much of the highest value to faith is to
 come1 but to steady the wavering young 
minister2 to sustain his preaching power
 by helping him to a definite message1  
and to encourage him to a slow and      
guarded acceptance of critical opinions 
destructive of the faith once delivered 
to the saints4  ,,chattanooga1 ,,tenn41 
,december1 #aijc4       ,the ,things    
,which ,remain     ,the followers of    
,him who said ,i am the ,truth can never
 afford to hold or propagate that which 
is false4 ,no man can preach with power 
unless he strongly believes4 ,teaching  

force depends on ,faith4  ,sidenote3    
,doing and ,knowing4  ,sidenote3 ,the   
,divine ,call4  ,sidenote3 ,conditions  
of the ,call4  ,thus far our ministry   
has had teaching power because it has   
been founded on and inspired by a       
,christian experience4 ,our ,church has 
always emphasized that essential        
,christian statement1 ,if ye do ye shall
 know4 ,at every ordination we have     
demanded of every candidate a           
declaration of his persuasion that he   
was called according to the will of our 
,lord ,jesus ,christ to the particular  
office to which he was then to be       
advanced4 ,by this we do not mean a     
mediate call through the order of the   
,church or the judgment of the ,bishop1 
but an immediate call by the ,holy      
,spirit from ,christ ,himself4 ,this    
call is antedated by that personal      
surrender to ,jesus ,christ2 that       
blessed acceptance by ,him of the       
self-surrendered2 that witnessing       
,spirit as to sonship which brings the  

consciousness of pardon1 renewal1 and   
justification known as a religious      
experience4  ,sidenote3 ,evidence of the
 ,call4  ,those who possess this know   
something4 ,whereas they were once      
blind1 now they see4 ,they know they    
have passed from darkness to light      
through the changed love which now      
controls4 ,however the persuasion       
reached them1 it is a persuasion2 not   
merely a hope4 ,it is a conclusion borne
 in upon them by satisfactory evidence1 
and is a lasting certainty while the    
faith which brought it abides in its    
original measure4  ,thus to-day we have 
a pulpit substantially in doctrine and  
force what our pulpit always has been4  
,even in some cases where doubt has     
entered1 it would appear that this      
,christian experience has steadied the  
wavering head by the full and regular   
impulses of the believing heart4        
,sidenote3 ,new ,problems in ,theology4 
,sidenote3 ,the ,modern ,skeptical      
,temper4  ,it is1 however1 to be        

admitted that the years to which we have
 come bring with them problems which our
 fathers did not have to solve4 ,doubts 
of which they knew nothing throng our   
atmosphere and crowd upon our           
consciousness4 ,the attacks on          
,christianity are no longer the ribald  
jeers of the unlovely and the vile4     
,they come in the name of honest        
investigation1 historical veracity1 and 
scientific accuracy2 and are projected  
by characters apparently truth-loving1  
reverent1 and candid4  ,sidenote3 ,the  
,sources of ,advanced ,criticism4  ,this
 may be said for most of them1 but on   
occasion it is hard to believe that all 
the ,german critics are wholly and      
exclusively truth-loving and candid4 ,so
 extreme are the positions of some1 so  
evidently tinctured with overreadiness  
for criticism and unbelief1 that they   
must be excluded from the most above    
described4  ,i speak of the ,germans    
because they1 chiefly1 are those capable
 and active in original research4 ,most 

of our ,american advanced critics are   
merely translators and adapters of      
,german work4 ,their volumes add nothing
 to the controversy to those who know   
the ,german originals4 ,not a few       
,americans have obtained reputation by  
the expansion of the note books they    
made at the feet of ,german professors4 
,sidenote3 ,the ,english ,disciples of  
the ,german ,school4  ,sidenote3 ,love  
of ,novelty4  ,this also is largely true
 of the ,english critics4 ,many of them 
are well furnished for ,greek criticism4
 ,the number of ,greek ,englishmen is   
still very large4 ,but these seem also  
to fortify1 at least1 their own         
conclusions by the opinions of the      
original ,german investigators4 ,it is  
hard to believe that1 in the contests   
for ,german professorial position1 as   
well as in the justification of the     
incumbent when the position is gained1  
the desire to attract attention by some 
critical novelty of method or result has
 not been in some cases1 at least1 as   

influential as a simple love of truth4  
,sidenote3 ,some ,questions as to       
,style4  ,there is always the question  
also1 which ,i profess seems to be one  
not easy of answer1 whether the literary
 judgments as to style when men are     
dealing with another language than their
 own1 and especially with ,greek and    
,hebrew1 can be as worthy of acceptance 
as their authors and many others hold   
them to be2 whether1 in short1 their    
opinions may not1 like those of experts 
in handwriting1 come to be so colored by
 their personality1 or their interests1 
as to be of little evidential value4 ,on
 this point it seems to me that not     
enough allowance has been made by these 
critics for the difference in style when
 men write familiarly or didactically1  
or when they are engaged in narration or
 exhortation4  ,sidenote3 ,foundation of
 ,belief ,unsettled4  ,whatever may be  
the truth as to these matters1 the      
present state of faith is due to the    
unsettlement of the foundation of belief

 by scientific and critical scholarship4
  ,sidenote3 ,a ,new ,foundation to     
,emerge4  ,this unsettlement1 admitted  
on every hand with difference of opinion
 as to extent1 is either to increase    
until faith in ,christianity1 except as 
an ethical and humanitarian system1 is  
dead1 or abide until faith revives by a 
perception that the ,church has         
maintained an erroneous basis for faith 
and that a new and stronger one is      
emerging from the sea of discussion4    
,this last ,i believe to be the truth in
 the matter4 ,i hold1 therefore1 that   
faith is not dying1 but suffering in    
some minds from a kind of lunar eclipse1
 where a shadow diminishes1 temporarily1
 the radiance1 but does not extinguish  
the planet itself4  ,sidenote3 ,the     
,authority of the ,scriptures ,weakened4
  ,when we ask what foundation is       
weakened1 the answer is3 ,the authority 
of the ,scriptures as the sole rule of  
faith and practice4 ,some claim that    
only a few of the books are genuine and 

almost none authentic4 ,if this is to be
 the final judgment of the learned and  
the sincere1 it is plain that we must   
seek another foundation for faith than  
the word of ,scripture4 ,it is no more a
 ,thus saith the ,lord for us4          
,sidenote3 ,critics not yet ,agreed4    
,sidenote3 ,archology and the ,bible4   
,sidenote3 ,personal ,standpoints4  ,but
 we are very far from seeing that final 
agreement among the critics which       
warrants us in discarding a single book4
 ,if any one has been fought about1 and 
fought over1 it is the ,gospel of ,john4
 ,it used to be said that this was not a
 history at all1 but an idealizing of   
tradition in the interest of a          
speculative idea2#a now theologians are 
mostly agreed that if ,john is the most 
speculative1 he is1 at the same time1   
the most personal of ,new ,testament    
writers4 ,no other book has been finally
 overthrown4 ,archology has confirmed   
,paul1 and also some ,old ,testament    
writers1 especially those who speak of  

widely separated settlements of the     
,hittites4 ,i get a strong impression   
that the ,new ,testament writers are    
sometimes attacked because they teach   
what the critics do not wish to believe4
 ,thus it would appear that ,harnack    
scouts the early chapters of ,matthew   
and ,luke because he doubts the virgin  
birth1 and would hold that belief       
therein is no part in authority or value
 of the ,christian religion4  ,footnote 
#a3 ,denney4 ,studies in ,theology4     
,sidenote3 ,bible ,appeal for           
,verification4  ,sidenote3 ,gracious    
,ability4  ,sidenote3 ,huxley's         
,passionless ,impersonality4  ,sidenote3
 ,gracious ,conditions for ,belief4     
,sidenote3 ,ethical ,conditions for     
,faith4  ,i now wish to declare my own  
confidence that the verification of the 
truths contained in the ,new ,testament 
was never intended to rest upon an      
absolutely inerrant record or on an     
inspiration which dictated to a         
personality rather than expressed itself

 through a personality4 ,the ,bible     
presupposes a power in man to test and  
verify its statements and doctrines4 ,it
 makes its appeal to this steadily from 
the earlier books to the later2 the     
appeal growing in content as the soul   
has developed its power of recognition4 
,this is the familiar law of knowing and
 doing1 of proving by practice1 of      
perceiving the leadership of ,jesus     
,christ through the leading of the ,holy
 ,ghost4 ,as to doctrine1 there is left 
in man the power to make the beginning  
of a faith4 ,on this beginning devotion 
builds a belief in the greater          
mysteries4 ,thus reason deduces a ,first
 ,cause1 then the unity of the ,first   
,cause4 ,this is as far as reason can   
go4 ,huxley1 looking out on the universe
 with this power1 said3 ,there is an    
impassable gulf between                 
anthropomorphism1 however refined and   
the passionless impersonality underlying
 the thin veil of phenomena4 ,i can not 
see one tittle of evidence that the     

great unknown stands to us in the light 
of a ,father4 ,nor could he4 ,religious 
truth is conditioned in a way in which  
the apprehension of physical truth is   
not4 ,there must be a certain condition 
of the heart1 conscience1 and will to   
see the truth of the ,godhead of        
,christ4 ,one may resist this           
evidence4#b ,only a living ,christian is
 competent to look at the subject--unto 
you it is given to know the mysteries of
 the kingdom of ,god4 ,in physics       
nothing is needed but open eyes and a   
sound understanding4#c ,moral character 
has nothing to do with it1 except as    
vice may affect vision and deteriorate  
the judgment4 ,but in a soul's relation 
to the ,christian religion1 the ethical 
element is that which is fundamental4   
,the pure in heart shall see ,god4 ,the 
foul soul has no vision for the eternal 
purities4 ,in the days of idolatry there
 was no open vision4 ,so in the heart of
 sin there is no light of spiritual     
truth4 ,the higher verities appear fully

 founded to the ,christian consciousness
 only4  ,footnote #b3 ,cf4 ,denney4     
,footnote #c3 ,cf4 ,denney4  ,sidenote3 
,natural ,ethical ,canon4  ,yet1 let us 
remember that below this ,christian     
consciousness lie the substrata of      
reason and ethical canon common to all  
men4 ,religious truth rests on these in 
its first revelations4 ,above the first 
and simplest revelation1 truth rests on 
,christian experience as to those       
matters for which reason and natural    
ethical canon are insufficient4         
,sidenote3 ,general ,calm of ,methodist 
,episcopal ,church4  ,sidenote3         
,wesley's ,advanced ,views4  ,this      
having been the teaching of the         
,methodist ,episcopal ,church from the  
beginning1 she has been little disturbed
 by the critical school4 ,while holding 
that the ,bible is the sole rule of     
faith1 she has not committed herself to 
any one theory of inspiration4 ,she has 
not believed the ,scriptures because    
they are written1 but1 being written1   

she has found them true4 ,she has       
believed in the supernatural power of   
the ,gospel because in her sight its    
leaven has wrought in the individual and
 in society what it claims for itself4  
,john ,wesley believed that there were  
,god-breathed teachings outside of the  
,bible4 ,he believed this because of his
 feeling that the ,divine ,fatherhood   
must have spoken to other than ,his     
,jewish children4 ,inheriting from our  
founder these thoughts1 we have kept a  
high degree of calm in these later days 
of inquiry and doubt4  ,sidenote3 ,wide 
,range of ,unbelief4  ,sidenote3        
,natural ,immortality4  ,sidenote3      
,reward and ,punishments4  ,we have     
already admitted that the present       
tendency to unbelief has wider range and
 fresher foundations than our fathers   
knew4 ,the belief in the natural        
immortality of the human soul whether of
 ,platonic or ,christian origin is      
shaken to an extent not known in a      
century4 ,the doubts of ,huxley1 the    

denials of ,hckel had a purely          
scientific basis4 ,the suspension of    
consciousness by sleep1 by accident1 by 
drugs1 the decay of mind by old age and 
by disease are freely put forth as      
proofs that mind can not exist without  
the mechanism which supports and        
manifests it4 ,if this last be true a   
doctrine fundamental to ,christianity   
must be abandoned4 ,the doctrine of     
immortality through ,christ does not    
meet the new objections4 ,the scheme of 
redemption and the doctrine of future   
rewards and punishments are involved in 
the fate of the doctrine of natural     
immortality4 ,we have thus shadows of   
doubt thrown upon two great doctrines1  
the virgin birth of ,christ and natural 
immortality4 ,the miracles1             
,resurrection1 and ,ascension must be   
added to the shadowed list4  ,sidenote3 
,some ,influential ,facts4  ,sidenote3  
,a ,great ,mistake4  ,sidenote3         
,doctored ,heathenism4  ,whatever       
relation the fact may have as a cause1  

it is noteworthy that as to time1 this  
new era of doubt largely coincides as to
 its beginning with the movement to     
revise the ,new ,testament4 ,the        
variations of the manuscripts1 the      
interpretations1 the comparatively late 
date of the oldest manuscripts were     
before this in possession of scholars   
only4 ,the daily press have made them   
the possession of the ,christian world4 
,the shock to traditional confidence    
through this was very great4 ,the       
,congress of ,religions at ,chicago had 
a similar effect4 ,the mistaken         
liberality which permitted ,christianity
 to appear on the same platform with the
 ethnic and imperfect religions         
contributed largely to doctrinal        
indifference4 ,the taking and uncandid  
misrepresentations of these religions   
convinced many that there was at least  
no better foundation for ,christianity  
and no better content therein than for  
and in the false and imperfect faiths4  
,many of these were defended by men who 

had had an ,english education and had   
come into contact with ,christian       
vocabulary and civilization4 ,they did  
not hesitate to read into these         
religions ideas wholly ,christian and   
wholly foreign to the original          
teachings4  ,sidenote3 ,what ,remains8  
,these and other considerations lead me 
to ask what remains that we may and do  
believe8 ,while far from admitting as   
finally proved the radical conclusions  
reached by some as to authorship and    
inspiration of the ,bible and ,divine   
authority for doctrines deduced         
therefrom1 it must be profitable for us 
to ask1 ,what remains if some of these  
conclusions stand8  ,recall that ,i do  
not admit all these for a moment1 or any
 of them as final4 ,some are probably   
true4 ,but taking the worst and most    
iconoclastic as true1 are we compelled  
even then to surrender our ,christian   
faith8  ,sidenote3 ,the ,apostles'      
,creed4  ,let us take the separate      
articles of the ,apostles' ,creed and   

see how they stand affected3  ,sidenote3
 ,the ,fatherhood of ,god4  ,i believe  
in ,god the ,father ,almighty1 ,maker of
 heaven and earth4  ,sidenote3 ,a       
,christian ,god4  ,surely this remains  
untouched and in full force4 ,huxley1 to
 requote what has before been quoted1   
says3 ,i can not see one tittle of      
evidence that the great unknown stands  
to us in the light of a ,father4 ,what a
 contradiction is here6 ,he knows that  
the great unknown can not be proved to  
be our ,father4 ,then he must know of   
the great unknown the negative aspects  
so minutely as to be sure that no       
,fatherhood is in the great unknown4    
,then he knows the great unknown much   
better than he is willing to admit1     
better than an agnostic ought4          
,sidenote3 ,an ,all ,pervasive ,spirit4 
,sidenote3 ,his ,commandments4          
,sidenote3 ,the ,divine ,ideal4  ,yet   
that the idea of ,god may remain in     
power and not as a passionless          
impersonality1 it must be less          

interpreted by the teachings of ,moses  
and more by the teachings of ,christ4   
,human tempers and passions must be     
eliminated from our ,divine ,ideal4 ,he 
must not be made an angry and jealous   
,god as men count these4 ,he must not be
 thought of as a vindictive personality1
 never so well pleased as when scaring  
,his children into panic4 ,in the       
thought of the ,church ,he will be an   
all-pervasive ,spirit whose nature is   
unfolded by the universe ,he has made4  
,in that universe ,he will be felt to be
 immanent as the power of development1  
order1 and destiny4 ,all ages show ,him 
to be the power which makes for         
righteousness4 ,the commandments are not
 only ,his because they are found in the
 ,bible1 but because they are perceived 
to be necessary laws of conduct         
proceeding from such a ,being as we know
 ,god to be for such beings as we know  
men to be4 ,thus we perceive them to be 
the ,divinely authorized bond of society
 and the guarantee and obligation of the

 ,divine ,ideal of humanity4 ,all nature
 and all history are scrutinized for    
traces of the ,supreme4 ,these being    
found to coincide with the ,christian   
,revelation of ,him1 men will read with 
new reverence those wonderful books     
which make up the ,book1 and which      
beyond all others anticipate the latest 
results of scientific inquiry and       
natural ethical canon4  ,sidenote3      
,advantage of ,newer ,view4  ,out of    
this will come such a sense of the      
,divine ,presence as the ,church and the
 individual ,christian have not hitherto
 known4 ,moral distance from ,god will  
be the only distance4 ,in ,him we live  
and move and have our being comes to    
full interpretation through this thought
 of ,god4 ,humanity is immersed in ,him4
  ,sidenote3 ,transcendent4  ,sidenote3 
,huxley ,against ,hume4  ,but this      
immanent ,god is also seen to be        
transcendent4 ,he is in nature and far  
beyond it4 ,vast as nature is1 it is    
limited4 ,god is the unlimited4 ,within 

this region of transcendence is room for
 all ,his gracious activities as        
distinguished from ,his natural         
activities2 room for marvel and miracle 
if ,he will and we need4 ,when ,huxley  
abandons ,hume's a priori argument      
against miracles it is not worth while  
for others to use it4 ,fewer doubt the  
existence of a ,god1 ,i believe1 than at
 any time since men sought to prove that
 ,he does not exist4 ,the ,fatherly in  
,god is proved both by ,his work in     
nature and by those works of grace which
 the student of nature alone can not    
see4 ,god is a spirit4 ,the human spirit
 refined1 purified1 sees ,him in        
proportion to its purification4         
,sidenote3 ,modern ,christology4        
,sidenote3 ,former ,limitations4        
,sidenote3 ,ritual ,statement4          
,sidenote3 ,aim of ,christianity4       
,sidenote3 ,likeness to ,god4  ,in      
respect of ,jesus ,christ1 ,his only    
,son our ,lord1 it may1 it must1 be said
 ,he remains in full and glorious vigor 

as the ,redeemer of mankind4 ,the marked
 difference between our time and a      
half-century ago with respect to ,christ
 is in the extension1 rather than the   
diminution of ,his relation to salvation
 and the extension of the idea of       
salvation itself4 ,in the former days   
men's eyes were almost wholly fixed on  
,his death and its relation to salvation
 in the future life4 ,seldom indeed was 
the value of the following text taken   
into consideration3 ,for if when we were
 enemies we were reconciled to ,god by  
the death of ,his ,son1 much more being 
reconciled we shall be saved by ,his    
life4 ,there is less disposition to     
dogmatize as to theories of the         
atonement4 ,most1 ,i think1 come to feel
 that no one view contains the full     
significance of ,christ's death4 ,have  
you noticed how the ,ritual puts it in  
the order of the ,lord's ,supper8 ,didst
 give ,thine only ,son ,jesus ,christ to
 suffer death upon the cross for our    
,redemption2 who made there on the cross

 by ,his oblation of ,himself once      
offered a full1 perfect1 and sufficient 
sacrifice1 oblation1 and satisfaction   
for the sins of the whole world4 ,the   
men who wrote that struggled to         
interpret ,his death by every possible  
phase of its meaning4 ,in our time we   
have come to see that the aim of ,christ
 and ,christianity is to develop        
character and that this must be gained  
in time that we may be ready for        
eternity4 ,thus the death of ,christ as 
the ultimate of self-sacrifice persuades
 us to the death of sin in us that we   
may live renewed in ,god2 rise from our 
dead selves to higher things4 ,his life 
persuades us as the condition and       
example of growth to move on from the   
first self-surrender into the habit and 
fact of constant obedience and therefore
 into the likeness of ,god's dear ,son4 
,the consciousness1 well-nigh universal1
 of the nobility of self-sacrifice is   
that which gives vitality and vogue     
among the masses to the doctrine of the 

atonement4 ,self-sacrifice becomes more 
rare as wealth and refinement modify men
 and women4 ,he that has much is loath  
to lose or leave it4 ,hence the rich    
generally fight in security4 ,the poor  
meet the bullets first4  ,bad as is the 
conduct of some trades-unionists1 it is 
among these toilers that great deeds of 
sympathy and generosity are done4 ,how  
they tax themselves to help each other6 
,how their women work for each other    
when one is unable to care for herself  
or her children6 ,their doctrine that an
 injury to one is a wrong to all has    
much that is ,christlike in it4 ,let us 
who believe in an atoning ,christ       
rejoice that as long as men honor       
bravery--self-sacrifice unto death for  
country1 home1 or the life of dear ones2
 as long as they build monuments to     
generals1 soldiers1 firemen1 physicians 
who die for others1 so will the world be
 slow to disbelieve the doctrine that   
,jesus ,christ tasted death for every   
man4  ,sidenote3 ,john's ,logos4        

,sidenote3 ,an ,anthropomorphic ,god4   
,more1 too1 is made of ,his life before 
the ,incarnation4 ,the pre-existence of 
,christ is an essential element in      
,christianity4 ,his eternal relation to 
,god is the only way of conceiving ,him 
which answers to ,his real greatness4#d 
,the ,christ was present and active in  
the creation4 ,john's use of the word   
,logos is right4 ,logos is not merely a 
result but a ,force4 ,it is not only the
 speech1 but the speaker4 ,let us admit 
once for all that the fact1 much        
belabored of the critics1 is a fact4    
,let us not be afraid of the word which 
expresses it4 ,god must be              
anthropomorphic if ,he exists4 ,we can  
come nowhere near to thinking out any   
other kind of ,god4 ,christ has the     
value of ,god to devout ,christians     
because in the fullness of ,his moral   
perfections ,he expresses ,god so far as
 we can know ,him and man so far as man 
can hope and grow4  ,footnote #d3       
,denney4 ,studies in ,theology4         

,sidenote3 ,how ,son of ,god4  ,is ,his 
,sonship different from ours1 or only an
 expansion of the fullness and          
perfection of our sonship8 ,this last   
seems to me a most important question4  
,if ,he was born as we were born--that  
is1 as to the beginning of ,his earthly 
life1 there can be no pre-eminent sense 
in which ,he was the ,son of ,god4 ,he  
was either a happy accident of natural  
birth or a sport in evolution4          
,sidenote3 ,the ,virgin ,birth4  ,this  
brings us to that doctrine which is the 
greatest challenge to the doubter3      
,conceived by the ,holy ,ghost2 born of 
the ,virgin ,mary1--a doctrine fiercely 
fought by ,harnack and yet by no means  
to be dismissed as he dismisses it4 ,his
 teaching on this point seems to me the 
result of his theory of ,christianity4  
,if one seeks to rid ,christianity of   
the supernatural1 here is the place to  
begin4  ,sidenote3 ,dignity of the      
,story4  ,sidenote3 ,a ,greater ,puzzle4
  ,but who will not feel the force of   

the position that1 granted ,god was to  
be incarnate1 the story of ,christ's    
incarnation is the noblest and most     
probable8 ,he is not born of a man's    
lust nor of a woman's desire--but of the
 submission of untainted womanhood to   
the direct creative power of ,god4 ,the 
alternative to this is the ,divinest man
 in all the world born of sinning and   
not yet married parents4 ,if the new    
doctrine of heredity be true that men   
may inherit good as well as evil1 we    
still have an astounding fact to account
 for2 namely1 the birth of such a child 
from such conditions1 that is1 with all 
the good kept in and all the bad left   
out4  ,sidenote3 ,parthenogenesis a     
,fact4  ,when men speak of a virgin     
birth as incredible and impossible and  
as the weakest of all ,christian        
doctrine1 do they know or have they     
forgotten that parthenogenesis 7virgin  
birth7 is a fact in nature2 existing1   
for example1 in as highly organized     
insects as the honey bee8 ,there are    

other insects which are parthenogenetic 
at one time and sexually productive at  
another4 ,there are also hints of it in 
human life known to anatomists which can
 not be fully discussed here4           
,sidenote3 ,among the ,bees4  ,sidenote3
 ,a ,small ,departure from ,nature4     
,the virgin queen bee produces males in 
abundance1 but can not produce females  
until she has made her nuptial flight   
and met her mate in an embrace          
invariably fatal to him4 ,nor does she  
ever need to meet another4 ,from that   
time on1 she is the fruitful mother of  
every kind of bee life the hive needs2  
the undeveloped females called neuters  
and those who become queens by being fed
 on royal food4 ,virgin birth is        
therefore imbedded in nature's order4   
,to occur in the human species nature   
need call in no novelty4 ,christ1 if    
born of a virgin1 was born with the     
smallest possible departure from the    
order of nature4 ,a process known in a  
lower form of life was carried into the 

higher to produce the unique being      
called for by the spiritual needs of    
mankind4         99       99       99   
99       99  ,sidenote3 ,the ,historical
 ,statement4  ,passing over the         
historical assertions which follow the  
doctrine of the virgin birth1 suffered  
under ,pontius ,pilate1 was crucified1  
dead1 and buried1 because there is      
nothing in these statements difficult or
 incredible1 we reach the doctrine of   
,his resurrection1 the third day ,he    
rose from the dead1 a doctrine next to  
that of the virgin birth in natural     
difficulty of acceptance4  ,sidenote3   
,christ's ,resurrection4  ,sidenote3    
,surprise of ,disciples4  ,sidenote3    
,the ,fact ,accounts for ,history4      
,faith in this seems to me to depend on 
how far we have accepted ,christ's      
,deity and ,his incarnation4 ,if by the 
,holy ,ghost we have been able to say   
that ,jesus is the ,lord2 if by that    
blessed energy we perceive ,his ,divine 
mastership2 if by the same energy we    

feel that ,he has transformed us into   
the image of ,his dear ,son2 raising us 
from the death of sin into the life of  
righteousness it is not difficult to    
believe that ,jesus the power of the    
,resurrection rose from the dead4 ,the  
fact of the ,resurrection and belief in 
the fact is not explicable by any       
antecedent conditions apart from its    
truth4#e ,the disciples did not expect  
what they saw4 ,his death was for them  
so far as we can see1 without hope4     
,they were not able yet to interpret    
,his prophecy that ,he would build again
 ,his temple1 nor understand the        
spirituality of ,his kingdom4 ,these    
facts seem to me utterly to demolish the
 theory of a vision called up by eager1 
yea1 agonizing1 expectation4 ,the idea  
of the ,resurrection justifies ,his     
prophecies as to ,himself and the fact  
accounts1 better than any theory which  
denies the fact1 for the faith and      
founding of the early ,church as well as
 for the course of subsequent history   

and of the believer's experience4       
,footnote #e3 ,westcott4 ,the           
,revelation of the ,risen ,lord4        
99       99       99       99       99  
,sidenote3 ,slow ,belief in             
,resurrection4  ,it is much to see that 
belief became belief only with great    
difficulty4 ,the idea of the            
,resurrection was strange and alarming  
to the disciples4 ,they were terrified  
and affrighted and supposed they beheld 
a spirit4 ,slowly by tests of sense as  
well as by persuasions of teaching did  
the disciples come to believe that the  
,christ of the ,resurrection was the    
same ,christ who suffered on the cross4 
,sidenote3 ,not an ,invention4          
,sidenote3 ,an ,eye-witness ,story4  ,it
 seems impossible that the ,resurrection
 could have been an invention or that   
the account of it could be a work of the
 imagination4 ,the last is almost as    
great a miracle as the ,resurrection    
itself4 ,in detail1 in naturalness1 even
 in the presence of difficulties and    

hindrances to easy belief of the story1 
the narrative seems that of an          
eye-witness4 ,no reasoning can bring    
faith1 however1 to one who denies the   
miraculous4 ,as a fact1 the             
,resurrection is incapable of           
naturalistic explanation4 ,to those who 
deny the miraculous ,i can only again   
point out how ,huxley cuts out the a    
priori argument from ,hume as worthless4
 ,as quoted in his biography1 ,huxley   
says3 ,we are not justified in the a    
priori assertion that the order of      
nature1 as experience has revealed it to
 us1 can not change4 ,the assumption is 
illegitimate because it involves the    
whole point in dispute4         99      
99       99       99       99           
,sidenote3 ,ascent into ,heaven4        
,sidenote3 ,the ,ascension4  ,sidenote3 
,nature not ,wholly ,love4  ,sidenote3  
,evil and ,good4  ,necessarily          
miraculous also is the doctrine1 ,he    
ascended into heaven4 ,in this ,he      
passed from the visible into the        

invisible2 from the conditions of human 
life to those of the life of a spirit2  
from the work of redemption to that of  
intercession4 ,if ,his resurrection be  
accepted1 ,his ascension presents no    
difficulties to faith4 ,this1 with ,his 
incarnation1 and the facts of ,his      
earthly life are the manifestation of   
the tender side of ,god to the senses   
even as ,his wisdom and power are shown 
to the senses by the facts and laws of  
nature4 ,as to the doctrine1 ,god is    
love1 nature's word can never be        
conclusive4 ,in the natural kingdom joy 
and sorrow1 ease and pain1 love and     
hate1 kindness and cruelty1 trust and   
terror exist side by side1 as do life   
and death4 ,no man concludes1 from      
nature alone1 that ,god is ruled by     
love4 ,because man can not conclude     
this1 ,ormuzd and ,ahriman are found    
substantially in all religions1 as in   
that of the ,parsees1 except in the     
,christian4 ,here the warfare is not to 
be eternal4 ,the victory of good is to  

come4 ,divine help is promised1 that it 
may be secured in every soul4 ,the      
conquest of evil by good is within that 
,christian omnipotence which ,paul knew4
 ,i can do all things through ,christ   
who strengtheneth me4 ,it requires a    
,christ to show that the path to rest is
 through toil2 that the way to ease is  
through suffering2 that the highway to  
life passes through death4 ,only thus   
can mortality be swallowed up of life4  
,sidenote3 ,the ,meaning of ,jesus4     
,sidenote3 ,christ as ,revealer4  ,in   
the unity of the ,godhead1 ,christ is   
,god in manifestation1 redemption1      
intercession1 judgment4 ,in the         
,trinity1 in which we must believe ,god 
exists1 ,jesus ,christ is the           
personality expressive1 at first visibly
 and now invisibly1 of the tender       
qualities of the ,divine nature which1  
manifested in part in the world of      
nature1 are there so linked with        
severity as to require special and      
peculiar revelation in the person of    

,jesus ,christ in order that ,god may be
 understood both as transcending nature 
and as eternal love4         99       99
       99       99       99  ,surely the
 doctrine1 ,i believe in the ,holy      
,ghost1 will remain4 ,it is a misfortune
 that the word ghost has1 in our        
,english use1 an unworthy and terrifying
 significance4 ,on this account it were 
well if we could substitute for constant
 use the word ,spirit4  ,sidenote3 ,the 
,holy ,ghost4  ,sidenote3 ,the ,energy  
of ,god4  ,sidenote3 ,the ,interpreter4 
,the ,holy ,spirit is the energy of     
,god1 whether working as ,creator or in 
the processes of redemption4 ,it stirs  
us to the depths when we consider that  
the ,author of the worlds1 the ,source  
of the energies is ,he who transforms1  
renews1 sanctifies1 and witnesses in us4
 ,there is no question as to the        
pervasiveness and competence of the     
,power which works in us to will and to 
do of ,his good pleasure4 ,we are taught
 to trace all our religious uplift to   

the highest possible source4 ,we gather 
a great sense of our worth by the       
dignity of this association as we do of 
the condescension of our ,lord in making
 ,his home in our hearts4 ,this ,holy   
,spirit is in all ,christians the energy
 of the entire spiritual life4 ,by this 
we do the things which by nature we can 
not do4 ,his is that ,divine impulse    
which initiates1 continues1 matures1 and
 satisfies the life of ,god in us4 ,it  
is the indwelling1 all-pervading ,holy  
,spirit1 which interprets that great    
word1 ,i in them and ,thou in ,me1 that 
they may be one as ,we are4  ,sidenote3 
,the ,doctrine of ,energy4  ,and if the 
most advanced philosophy should yet be  
confirmed as true that there is nothing 
really but energy1 none the less would  
the doctrine of the ,holy ,spirit abide4
 ,back of all the individual energies of
 humanity2 back of all the forces of    
nature is the supreme energy of ,god4   
,if creation be our theory1 it is the   
,spirit of ,god which broods on the face

 of the waters4 ,if evolution be our    
creed1 it is in ,him we live and move   
and have our being4 ,all science is but 
the knowing of ,his way of working1 and 
all theology is but the discovery of    
,his mind4 ,to know ,him is to know all 
things4 ,the latest ,christian will be  
saying1 ,i believe in the ,holy ,ghost4 
99       99       99       99       99  
,sidenote3 ,the ,forgiveness of ,sin4   
,sidenote3 ,huxley on ,depravity4       
,sidenote3 ,not ,all ,born ,good4       
,sidenote3 ,experience of ,hell4  ,and  
what becomes of the doctrine of the     
forgiveness of sins in this outlook for 
the things which remain8 ,accepting     
,huxley as the incarnation of the       
skeptical spirit of our time1 ,i quote  
from him his thought of sin1 depravity1 
and punishment1 as a hint of where the  
scientific spirit may yet aid us4 ,the  
doctrine of predestination1 of original 
sin1 of the innate depravity of man1 the
 evil fate of the greater part of the   
race1 of the primacy of ,satan in this  

world1 of the essential vileness of     
matter1 of a malevolent ,demiurgos      
subordinate to a benevolent ,almighty   
who has only lately revealed ,himself1  
faulty as they are1 appear to me to be  
vastly nearer the truth than the        
liberal1 popular illusions that babies  
are all born good1 and that the example 
of corrupt society is responsible for   
their failure to remain so4444 ,that it 
is given to everybody to reach the      
ethical ideal if they will only try2    
that all partial evil is universal good2
 and other optimistic figments4 ,i      
suppose that all men with a clear sense 
of right and wrong have descended into  
hell and stopped there quite long enough
 to know what infinite punishment means4
  ,sidenote3 ,transmission of ,evil4    
,surely1 the established truths of      
heredity confirm the doctrine that man1 
if not born depraved1 is born deprived  
of tendencies toward good essential to  
his own welfare and that of the race4   
,where sin has once taken hold of the   

race1 the natural reproduction of life  
become reproduction of life morally     
injured and faulty4 ,with evil once     
begun1 the race is a succession of      
tainted individuals2 an organism that   
works toward continuance of evil4 ,not  
but that good is transmitted at the same
 time1 for it goes along with evil4 ,any
 virtue or value which is strong enough 
to live will pass from generation to    
generation even while evil is making the
 same journey4#f  ,footnote #f3 ,outline
 of ,christian ,theology4 ,clarke1 p4   
#bdb4  ,sidenote3 ,depravation and      
,deprivation4  ,sidenote3 ,natural      
,standards4  ,sidenote3 ,the ,decalogue4
  ,while we hold that this tendency1    
this natural sluggishness in laying hold
 of the things of the higher nature is  
not in itself guilt1 it becomes so by   
the voluntary adoption of the lower     
forces as the guide of life4 ,nature has
 her own decalogue4 ,there is a law     
written upon our hearts4 ,the wasting of
 power by anger1 jealousy1 envy1        

covetousness and the like1 and the      
degradation following their expression  
in acts of revenge1 concupiscence1 and  
mere rapacity1 are known without        
revelation by all races which have not  
suffered the downward evolution4 ,the   
literatures prove this back even to the 
days of ,hamurabi4 ,thus natural        
standards of temper and conduct are seen
 to exist1 below which men may not live 
without loss1 and hence there are       
natural laws to disobey which is sin4   
,the table given on ,sinai1 though given
 to ,moses1 was in the world long before
 ,moses4 ,but higher sanction was given 
it by the lawgiver1 and the highest by  
the re-enactment of the ,decalogue by   
,jesus ,christ4  ,sidenote3 ,the ,heart 
,law4  ,sidenote3 ,effects of ,sin4     
,sidenote3 ,characteristics of ,sin4    
,sidenote3 ,results of ,sin4  ,sin is   
blameworthy because it is born of the   
human preference and the human will4    
,the nation which1 knowing most of the  
,divine will1 disobeys1 is the most     

guilty because the most knowing4 ,the   
proportion of guilt depends on the      
measure of knowledge and the measure of 
opportunity4 ,hence there is some guilt 
among those who know only a part of the 
truth1 and if a man perceives1 without  
the aid of revelation1 a law in nature  
and a penalty1 and breaks that law1 then
 is he a sinner4 ,some of the physical  
consequences may apparently be avoided  
by future obedience4 ,but the inner and 
spiritual consequences of sin are the   
worst--these things2 namely3 ,in the    
weakening of the will2 in the hardening 
of the conscience2 and1 later1 in the   
recklessness as to consequences1        
indicated by that terrible indictment by
 ,paul1 ,who1 being past feeling1 have  
given themselves over4 ,the             
consciousness of sin is practically     
universal4 ,it is no invention of       
,christianity1 though brought to its    
greatest force by ,christianity4        
,religions1 governments1                
literatures1--all and everywhere1--treat

 of sin as a fact4 ,it is more than     
dominion of body over spirit2 more than 
an incident of growth2 more than a      
result of undeveloped judgment1 tinged  
with emotion1 and applied to questions  
of motive and conduct4 ,sin is the      
abnormal2 sin is a variant from         
standard2 sin is self-will and          
selfishness throttling duty4 ,where men 
accept a ,god1 it is opposition to ,his 
law and government4#g ,if no personal   
,god be believed in1 then sin is willful
 opposition to the course of nature and 
to law1 as proved by experience4 ,so1 in
 every case1 it is unworthy1 injurious1 
and guilty1 and must be repented of and 
atoned for4 ,the doctrine of sin will   
never be essentially disturbed4         
,footnote #g3 ,cf4 ,clarke4 ,outline of 
,theology4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,sidenote3 ,a ,supernatural
 ,event4  ,sidenote3 ,lacks ,scientific 
,proof4  ,sidenote3 ,an ,old ,fallacy4  
,sidenote3 ,a ,jewish ,argument4        
,sidenote3 ,kant's ,reasoning4          

,sidenote3 ,can ,not ,be ,demonstrated4 
,the next clause in the creed1 ,the     
resurrection of the body1 if it remains 
as a permanent article of faith1 must   
rest on the declaration of ,christ and  
on ,his resurrection4 ,it is confessedly
 dependent1 not on a natural1 but a     
supernatural order4 ,on this point it is
 again worth our while to note a        
concession by ,huxley1 as showing the   
consistency of one ,christian truth with
 another4 ,if a genuine1 and not merely 
subjective1 immortality awaits us1 ,i   
conceive that without some such change  
as that depicted in ,i ,corinthians xv1 
immortality must be eternal misery4#h   
,surely1 this is a great testimony to   
that famous chapter on the resurrection4
 ,no scientific proof or probability can
 be adduced for the resurrection of the 
body4 ,the older theologians used to    
point out that the caterpillar entombed 
itself that it might emerge to the      
higher life of the butterfly4 ,but we   
must not take from such a fact what     

suits our purpose1 and leave a fatal    
weakness in our argument4 ,the butterfly
 does1 indeed1 emerge from the coffin of
 the cocoon and the seemingly dead pupa4
 ,but it is only for a brief day of     
life4 ,then it lays its eggs and dies   
forever4 ,it is born to no immortality1 
but to the most ephemeral life4 ,the    
early ,church2 yea1 the ,jewish ,church1
 found rational warrant for belief in   
immortality and the resurrection of the 
body1 first in the thought that it was  
unjust for those who fought for and     
brought in the kingdom of ,god1 to enjoy
 nothing of what they secured4 ,so the  
doctrine of the first resurrection      
appears as a contribution of justice to 
holy life4 ,later on1 similar reasoning 
demanded the resurrection of all4 ,a    
judgment is necessary1 not to acquaint  
,god with the merits of men1 but to     
acquaint men with the righteousness of  
,god4 ,this would be impossible without 
the resurrection of all4 ,very close to 
this is the reasoning of ,kant1         

summarized as follows3 ,every moral act 
must have as an end the highest good4   
,this good consists of two elements1    
virtue and felicity1 or happiness4 ,the 
two are inseparable4 ,but these can not 
be realized under the limitations of    
this existence4 ,immortality follows as 
a deduction4 ,the moral law demands     
perfect virtue or holiness2 but a moral 
being can not realize absolute moral    
perfection or a holy completeness of    
nature in this present life4 ,it is     
wholly of faith that men are immortal4  
,it of necessity can not be             
demonstrated4 ,the mass of mankind have 
believed it1 and do believe it1 and it  
is one of the most difficult of beliefs 
to escape from1 returning to some       
skeptical scientists almost as an       
intuition1 conquering the logic of death
 and decay4  ,footnote #h3 ,biography1  
,vol4 ,,ii4 p4 #cbb4  ,sidenote3 ,how   
,faith ,grows4  ,it is also true that   
faith in immortality grows with the     
fullness and intelligence of the        

spiritual life4 ,it becomes a complete  
persuasion to the pure in heart4 ,yet   
some scientific facts1 as related to    
man1 make the idea of his extinction    
improbable1 and separate him from the   
beast which perisheth4  ,sidenote3 ,men 
and ,brutes4  ,sidenote3 ,what ,brutes  
,have4  ,it is true that much is common 
to men and brutes4 ,they walk the same  
earth2 breathe the same air2 are        
nourished by the same food1 which is    
digested by the same processes4 ,their  
life is transmitted by the same methods1
 and their embryonic life is strangely  
similar4 ,it is also true that there are
 strong mental resemblances4 ,both love 
and hate2 are jealous and indifferent2  
are courageous and cowardly2 they       
perceive by similar organs2 record by   
similar mnemonic ganglia2 and are within
 certain limits impelled by the same    
motives4 ,nor can a measure of reason be
 denied to animals4 ,while much of what 
appears to be mental life is automatic  
and unconscious response to an external 

stimulus reaching a nerve-center1 yet   
within limits they deliberate2 they     
exercise choice2 and determine routes   
and methods4  ,sidenote3 ,man ,above    
,brutes4  ,sidenote3 ,habits of         
,animals4  ,sidenote3 ,limits of ,brute 
,intelligence4  ,sidenote3 ,limits      
,continued4  ,but when all this is said1
 man rises almost infinitely beyond the 
highest brute4 ,man can stand outside of
 himself2 contemplate the movements of  
his own mind2 watch the play of motive  
upon energy and will1 and know himself  
as no brute can ever be trained to do4  
,nor have brutes the ganglia1 lobes1 or 
convolutions which house and direct such
 powers2 and no tribe of mankind has    
been found without them1 however        
undeveloped4 ,very limited1 indeed1 is  
the use of natural forces or of supplied
 materials in the life of a brute4 ,the 
birds pick up feathers1 hair1 twigs2 but
 no bird provides such things by        
deliberate prevision and co-operation   
with nature4 ,what animal sows that he  

may reap8 ,the so-called agricultural   
ants gather what they have not sown1 and
 reap what they have not planted4 ,man  
sows that he may gather2 breeds that he 
may use2 and accomplishes civilization  
by an ever-increasing mastery and       
adaptation of natural forces4 ,an insect
 may float with the current on a chip2  
but what one ever put a chip into the   
water8 ,a beaver may build a dam2 but   
what beaver ever turned the heightened  
water on a wheel8 ,the dog may lie in a 
sunny spot2 but what dog ever created   
artificial heat or condensed by a lens  
the sun's heat on a particular point8   
,the hen may lay and incubate an egg2   
but what hen ever invented an incubator 
to save her long sitting in one pose or 
place1 or studied the development of    
life in and from the egg she produced8  
,the ox may select the richest pasture2 
but never dreamed of creating a rich    
pasture by the culture and fertilization
 of which he is the chief source4 ,the  
tiger chooses and slays his prey2 but   

does not know how to propagate1 develop1
 and safely mature the animals on which 
he feeds4 ,all animal life below man    
must locate where its food abounds1 or  
follow that food in its migrations or   
seasonal changes4 ,man alone stores and 
transports his food1 creating commerce  
by his mastery of climate4  ,sidenote3  
,man ,parts ,company4  ,sidenote3 ,man  
and ,brute ,compared4  ,sidenote3 ,how  
,man ,can ,live4  ,sidenote3 ,how ,man  
,can ,decay4  ,sidenote3 ,incidental as 
to ,body4  ,the brute obeys law         
unwittingly in the sustenance and       
transmission of life4 ,man alone        
perceives and deduces law from a        
thousand facts1 and concludes a lawgiver
 from the law1 and one ,lord and ,giver 
of ,life from the unity and universality
 of force4 ,the brute turns its eye     
skyward to detect danger2 but never     
measures or counts the stars1 discerns  
the movements of the planets1 nor       
extends vision and hearing by telescope1
 microscope1 and megaphone1 nor proves  

by the spectroscope the sameness of     
stellar elements with those of our own  
world4 ,the brute neither makes history 
nor records it4 ,he remembers1 but does 
not recollect4 ,his affections are      
evanescent as to his kind1 and only     
approach permanence as they are fastened
 upon us4 ,the brute cognizes external  
things1 but does not perceive their     
being4 ,thus man can live in an         
intellectual or spiritual world as to   
his aims1 motives1 and occupations4 ,he 
need touch matter only so far as it is  
necessary to support the bodily strength
 on which his spiritual and intellectual
 movement must depend for basis and     
manifestation4 ,on the other hand he may
 reduce the intellectual and spiritual  
life to the lowest limit by giving the  
mastery to his physical appetites4 ,we  
feel instinctively that to do this last 
is unworthy of manhood and destructive  
of the higher nature and intent4 ,but   
who expects a brute to do anything else 
but minister to his appetites8 ,if he   

delays a single second in doing it1 it  
is only through fear of man or of some  
stronger animal4 ,his intellectual      
movements have this as an end in        
complete reversal of the case with man4 
,with the brute the intellect seems     
incidental to the body4 ,with man the   
body is incidental to the intellect4    
,one feels for this reason that man     
might live a purely spiritual and       
disembodied life4 ,no one from this     
standpoint thinks so of a brute4        
,sidenote3 ,immortality of ,force4      
,sidenote3 ,christ's ,light4  ,sidenote3
 ,the ,christian's ,eye4  ,once more let
 ,huxley speak as to the scientific     
possibility with regard to the other    
great ,christian dogmas1 the immortality
 of the soul1 and a future state of     
rewards and punishments1 what possible  
objection can ,i1 who am compelled1     
perforce1 to believe in the immortality 
of what we call matter and force1 and in
 a very unmistakable present state of   
rewards and punishments for all our     

deeds1 have to these doctrines8 ,give me
 a scintilla of evidence1 and ,i am     
ready to jump at them4#i ,but when all  
conditions are considered1 and just     
weight given to all the probabilities1  
the full persuasion of immortality comes
 through ,him who has brought life and  
immortality to light4 ,these seem part  
of ,his communication to the souls in   
whom ,he dwells4 ,to them ,he says1     
,because ,i live1 ye shall live also4   
,into their being ,he injects the power 
of an endless life4 ,their hopes1 faith1
 affections center less and less on     
time4 ,the truer1 fuller1 richer life is
 felt to be coming4 ,it is to surpass   
the earthly life in quantity and in     
quality only because the soul1 as it    
flutters ,godward1 must here feel the   
attrition of its fleshly tabernacle4    
,this dissolved1 the fullness and the   
freedom come4 ,the house not made with  
hands henceforth enshrines the spirit4  
,christ's great ,word is finally        
interpreted3 ,i am come1 that they might

 have life1 and have it more abundantly4
  ,footnote #i3 ,biography4 ,vol4 ,i1 p4
 #bfj4         99       99       99     
99       99  ,sidenote3 ,the ,life      
,everlasting4  ,sidenote3 ,literalism4  
,the life everlasting6 ,this is the     
grand finale of the ,creed as it is the 
end which all devout souls seek4 ,it is 
made probable by what man is1 which is  
the same as saying that there are1 from 
considerations above mentioned1         
probabilities in its favor4 ,it has been
 the habit of pious souls to attempt to 
understand and describe this life1 and  
many are the volumes which proceed upon 
the literalness of the ,bible           
descriptions4 ,i suppose there are      
phases of faith which can not reach     
beyond literalness1 and hence do not    
rightly interpret the splendid imagery  
of ,st4 ,john4 ,such we must leave to   
the blessed surprise and ecstatic       
awakening of ,paradise4  ,sidenote3     
,great ,figures4  ,sidenote3 ,locating  
,heaven4  ,sidenote3 ,eternal           

,punishment4  ,to other minds the life  
everlasting is unbelievable except as   
the great pictures of ,john are         
spiritualized4 ,to such the place       
becomes a state or condition4 ,it is of 
no interest to us to inquire1 as did the
 ,christian philosopher1 ,dick1 into the
 locality of heaven and hell4 ,such     
ideas as those recently put forth by a  
preacher1 not of our ,church1 thank     
,god6 that hell is in one of the spots  
on the sun1 and heaven in the           
chromosphere are distasteful to the last
 degree to those who believe that ,god  
is a ,spirit1 and that flesh and blood  
can not inherit the kingdom of ,god4    
,such feel that heaven may be anywhere  
and everywhere2 that the gulf which     
separates the rich man and ,lazarus may 
be only a moral gulf1 seeing that they  
talked across it4 ,they see eternal     
punishment in the perception of the     
sinner that he has forever stunted his  
soul by his sinfullness and the         
grossness of his affections4 ,though he 

should begin a progressive life from his
 present status1 he could never catch up
 with a soul which has a purer point of 
departure4  ,there is an awful penalty  
in the fact that this sense of loss may 
be eternal4 ,the consciousness of       
limited powers1 the certainty that so   
much is lost1 never to be regained1 is  
surely a fire that is not quenched2 a   
worm that dieth not6  ,sidenote3        
,limitation by ,sin4  ,sidenote3        
,illustrations4  ,sidenote3 ,strength   
and ,disuse4  ,but how much more awful  
the thought that this limitation of the 
nature by sin1 whether of body or soul1 
may affect the soul through unending    
life without fitness for any pleasure or
 delight possible to that state6 ,the   
company of good and refined men and     
women is here little less than hell to a
 bad and coarse man1 if he is compelled 
to stay in it4 ,there is nothing in the 
spirit1 aim1 and employments of such    
that he can measure4 ,he can understand 
the delights of eating and drinking4    

,even then it is the coarse foods and   
the drunk-bringing drink that he most   
enjoys4 ,he can understand noise1 coarse
 jokes1 but not quiet conversation1 nor 
the play of a delicate wit4 ,when the   
pleasure of life is sensual1 bodily1 the
 capacity for mental and moral pleasure 
slowly diminishes1 and at last dies4    
,project such a soul into the company of
 the redeemed2 place it where the body  
has no existence1 and therefore no      
pleasure to give2 compel it to remain   
among those whose every thought is pure1
 and whose eyes are fixed on the ,king  
in ,his beauty1 and1 like the rich man1 
it will lift its eyes in torment1 and   
ask for water to cool his parched       
tongue4         99       99       99    
99       99  ,it is no part of my aim to
 say a final word on any of these great 
truths1 even if ,i deemed myself capable
 thereof4  ,sidenote3 ,aim and ,intent4 
,sidenote3 ,confirmation by ,experience4
  ,sidenote3 ,effect on the ,bible4     
,sidenote3 ,the ,coming of ,revelation4 

,but it is my hope to point out the way 
in which we find our faith strengthened1
 and to show that the great truths of   
,christianity will survive the most     
radical criticism of the ,scriptures4   
,every one of these truths has          
increasing confirmation as we accumulate
 the teachings of science1 history1 and 
religious experience4 ,the ,bible will  
never be superseded1 because it contains
 the struggle of every type of soul     
,godward1 and because its record of what
 the ,lord said and did2 of what ,he    
was1 and of what the apostles thought   
,him to be1 stands as the verification  
of what we know ,him to be4 ,the ,bible 
and experience are mutually illuminating
 and corroborative4 ,it is possible that
 the ,church receiving the deposit of   
truth orally from the apostles1 might   
have passed that truth down orally1 and 
by her ordinances1 illustratively as she
 did1 until the ,gospels were written2  
as she must do now in lands where the   
people can not read1 having no written  

language4 ,to avoid1 however1 the       
defects of human memory and to          
accumulate a standard by which teaching 
and experience should be verified1 ,god 
who at sundry times and in divers       
manners spake in times past unto the    
fathers1 hath in these last days spoken 
unto us by ,his ,son2 through ,his ,son 
to the apostles2 and by the apostles and
 their successors to us2 those          
successors being not those made so by   
the touch of a human hand2 but by ,god's
 transforming grace1 giving to every    
believer power and privilege to speak   
the things we do know4 ,we having the   
same spirit of faith2 according as it is
 written1 ,i believed1 and therefore    
have ,i spoken1 we also believe1 and    
therefore speak2 knowing that ,he which 
raised up the ,lord ,jesus1 shall raise 
us up also by ,jesus1 and shall present 
us with you4 ,for all things are for    
your sakes1 that the abundant grace     
might1 through the thanksgiving of many1
 redound to the glory of ,god4