The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 13

II

before they had discovered the source of their personal redemption

God's good pleasure. Oh, no! In

in

demand

at all for deliverance

from

this

sin

new

there

;

religious tide there

is

no

no longing whatsoever

redemption; nowhere the desire for a conscious personal reu-

after

nion with the living God, our Father in heaven, declares adherents of this cultured

class,

position

in

come,

rdigioii,

>iezv

are

well

leaving

the

and

future

lot in

Cosmos

in

appreciating

the vibrations of their

And

some connection between

of the old religion with their

whom

and not the Saviour,

the after-

own

of an all-pervading power, inspiring them;

perception

still

the world to

Infinite;

coveting of an ever unattainable ideal.

the

them are

The

Their watchword

ocean of the

in the

thrilling of the soul of the

itself.

to the highly

all

with themselves and with their their

such a one, an open question.

is

merging of the soul

heart;

belonging almost

satisfied

world,

this

there

if

the

is

is

new

sentiments,

it

is

some of

if

the vocabulary

not the Father,

they most beroently adore, but

it

is

almost exclusively the Holy Ghost, not conceived as a personal God, but as an

infinite,

all-pervading Spirit.

They borrow

their choicest

more from the Indian Veda's than from the

expressions

apostolic

documents, and no doubt that pantheism, more than the adoration of the Triune God,

is

inspiring their songs

Loosing themselves

And

ency. not

to

resume

to

fear,

and the Disposer of of a

titillations

cending

one word, their constant endeavor

therefore

less

these

is

refined

altruism,

cultured

life

God,

is

their Creator

their destinies, but to enjoy fully the mystical

delightful religious feeling.

the

Of

course, the lower

religious delicacies.

a thoroughly aristocratic one.

Buddhists

their

from

own

The

The

persua-

standpoint does not

vouchsafing

by a condes-

further use of the old Christian religion to

class,

provided no attempt be

back upon their own mind, and of

God's majestic Transcend-

to love the living

however of the superiority of

prevent

the

in

to

do not catch a suggestion of such

classes

movement sion

it

and

serve

to

their pious utterances.

an unfathomable divine Immanency, they

in

most absolute Daltonists as

the

are

and

made

to urge

it

the lead of society in every circle

be guaranteed to their new born opinions.

Such

is

the

general

underlying

religious

stratum,

in

which

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