The Churches and Modern Thought / An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour

.-Deism denies

God, but the fact of revelation. "In recent theology deism has generally come to be regarded as, in common with theism, holding in opposition to atheism that there is a God, and in opposition to pantheism that God is distin

-"What it is to

and the testimony of our own conscience, that Christ has lifted mankind up, and shown man what is good; and this we may describe as bringing man to God, and revealing God to man. This redemption, salvation, we acknowledge as a fact. He who has this faith in Christ, and lets it work its natural result in making him more like Chri

"Haeckel's Cri

nger, Ballard, Rhondda Williams, Profeit, Kennedy, W. James, and Royce are all considered. Many pious Christians may have read the apologists' criticisms of Haeckel's well-known work, The Riddle of the Universe, but few

ychical experiences largely acco

be understood and explained without any reference to the intervention of the supernatural. Spiritualists affirm that the soul is an emanation from God, while I contend that it is an emanation of the brain. This is the whole thing in a nutshell. You therefore see how, from this point of view, I cannot be called a spiritualist-at least, in the sense in which the term is generally understood. Almost all spiritualistic phenomena can be classed among those positive facts which science can explain." However, in an article contributed by him to the Grand Magazine for January, 1907, and entitled "Why I became a Spiritualist," Professor Lombroso admits that he has felt himself "compel

se metapsychical phenomena are, as Professor Lombroso tells us, of colossal importance-why science should direct attention towards them without delay-is that, so soon as they are universally acknowledged to be manifestations occur

essor James-an earnes

God's existence and the arguments for a God with moral attributes must be rejected, and "the man who is sincere with himself and the facts, but who remains religious still," must soothe "his perplexed and baffle

dan or a Hindoo, or any other non-Christian, who, without having

had what he described as a vision of Christ, who revealed Himself as the author of salvation, and commanded him (Chet Ram) to build a church and to place within it the Bible. He was himself illiterate, but immediately began to proclaim the