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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