English Secularism

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ore, became plain. The siren songs of orthodoxy were

f a moral deity. Men of genius and of noble ethical sympathy do however deem it defensible. In any human book the paternal exaction of such suffering as fell to Christ, would be regarded with alarm and repugnance.

the universe is undisclosed, is manifest from the different and differing conjectures concerning it. The origin of the universe remain

t help in the day of need. Alas, to the poor it is evident that Providence does not interf

f at will against his adversaries. But experience shows that all entreaty is futile to induce Providence to change its universal habit of non-intervention. Prayer beguiles the poor but provid

y discourages all efforts of progress. The primal imperfection of human nature is only effaceable by knowledge and persist

ernal punishment is the foundation on which all Christianity (except Unitarianism) rests. This awful belief, if acted upon with the sincerity that Christianity declares it should be, would terminate all enjoyment, and all enterprise would cease in the world. None woul

pple, and that three thousand or more years after, mankind had to be redeemed by the murder of an innocen

ll. It is only he whose principles of justice, men can understand, that men can trust. Prof. T. H. Huxley, conspicuous for his clearness of view and dispassionateness of judgment, was of this opinion, and said: "The suggestion arises, if God is the cause o

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d humane believer torn with fear, as he thinks what must be the character of that God who could only be thus appeased. The example of self-sacrific

e when those they love and honor have gone before? Ere we reach the middle of our days, the joy of every heart lies in some tomb. If the Christian actually believed that the future was real, would he hang black plumes over the hearse, and speak of dea

main operative, and the Churches remain answerable for them. Nonconformists do not protest against a State Church on account of its doctrines herein enumerated. When the doctrines w

iew." He however holds that to drop the "letter" is to drop the doctrine. To "expand" the "letter" is to change it. New "range of view" is the term under which desertion of the text is disguised. But "new range" means new thought, which in this insidious way is put forward to supersede the old. The fran