Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 37

Methodist Revieio.

However

Iiif^lih',

we

therefore,

appreciate the intention of

these three classes of defeiulers, and

however much we owe

incorporate with them

we cannot be

their study of detail,

apolo^etes, because no plea can avail

with

tlie

l)oth

defenthint and judge; not with

tlie

when

to

— not

reason

is

Mittelsmannc)\ be-

c.iuse they exiiaust tiieir strength in a monstrous marriage, and " hyi)rids do not propagate;" and not with our spiritual dualists, because logic and ethics have but one consciousness

at their

connnand, and

all

such spiritual divorces must end in

iiyiK'rtrophy of the head coupled with atrophy of the heart.

An altogether dilfei'ent and much safer method was employed wherever resistance proved effectual. God calls Abraham out of Ur, separates Israel from the nations, and thus, in real life, up a dam against the flood of j)aganism. Christ conies and forms in Israel a following of his own, which, by separation from the world, is being trained to vanquish the spirit of In the sixteenth century similar resistance was the World. offered by men who witiidrew their forces within self-created casts

bounds to regain strength, in order, by life's reality and deeds, and not by theories and phrases, to strengthen themselves for the strife which awaited them. In the self-same maimer You iStein rallied Prussia after Jena and France has restored her strength.

And,

as regards

our

sti-uggle,

they

who adhere

to the

Christian faith and appreciate the danger of the destruction of

boundaries must begin by drawing a circle about themselves within which to develop a

of their own, of which

life

life,

thus

constituted, they nni;;t give account, and so to increase strength for the strife wiiich

This

is

is

upon

us.

the only method which, as often as correctly applied, has

which

Rome

never abandoned, and which IIow have pantheism and ev(»lution risen to be so powerful \ Certainly not because of Kant or Hegel, Darwin or Haeckel, for no single man can transform the spirit of his time if he be not himself a child of Xo, the general mood of mind, the teinj)er of soul, his time. stood the test of is

fire,

the only rational one again to pursue.

the inclination of heart,

had risen up

all

of

life

down

to its deepest impulses,

in rebellion at the close of the last cetitury against

the boundaries appointed

and Hegel and Darwin,

l)y

God; pantheism was

in the air;

as children of their age, only hastened

the birth of the monstrosity, which our age had long carried

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