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18 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUND APRIL 2, 1899 The Ghrist of Roman Gatholicism. By Father Newell of st. Dominic's. The Ghrist of tke 2900000000000 000000000002 0 Jews in ¢ high tres s-and th FATH Swedenborgians. By Rev. D. V. Brown, First New Jerusalem Church. n True and s are of thé bodily matter of history aratively of little value to v symbolize spiritual thing: a, resurrection in which we can all have part, here and now. What ‘we have concerning the resurrec- tjon in the Gospels represents the rising of spiritual goodness in our hearts from the, dead’ things that oppose. The resu rection -state—life eter ngelhood—is not attained but by the way of Geth- semane, the cross and the. sepulcher— % e words spiritually sig- rough what th he four accourts of the resurrection and the differences in these accounts rep- Yesent the methods whereby spiritual goodnesé rises in eur hearts; the ences are-the different processes whereby men become spiritually minded; which va according to hereditary tendencies, gocial surroundings, education and the habits of life. The Lord's resurrection typifles our regeneration. very littie éir- cumstance, every event which attended it was figurative of some change of the state er- of 1's mind or the affe his heart; represented the living principles of ruth and goodness rising from the dead ngs of evil and falsity. Paul : “I coumkgall things loss for x v of the knowlédge of Christ 1 may Know him and the power of his resurrection.” *“In Christ esus I die daily,” he also said, and from daily resurrected into . “If ye live after the fle: ve shall die; but if through th a6 mortify the deeds of the body, 3 v 8o the llving, spiritual things .we are to seek are not to be found inthe propensities of the body, the sensual things of the natural mind, what delights the eye or the ear, or any of the senses, but in those things whicli are risen above the imal nature and pertain to the prin- ciple of spiritual truth and goodness. When we have these living things in us we' have eternal or everlasting life; we are passed-from death unto life. When the Lord's spirit is in us—his spirit of love, which ‘comes into the truth we obey—he causes to come up out of the graves of a se al life and brings us into a higher life than the animal. Then we first become human, made in the image and likeness of God. His image, as his truth, is in our minds, and his like- ness, as his love, is in our hearts. Thus s CIRRO ration become livi we all things which act aga feet. among r our living IAN learn that rist is the velation or man- tion of God's power, presence This true and di- genuine love vine idea not limited by time, itself in love to man. but is eternal with Ge 1 was pre \s truth and love are resurrected in sented to the i ough the man our exte lives we shall hecome e« This way-shower ¢ ired to wi ) that div De which is to be as dross attained by cach one when he overcomes compared to g e s of mortal existence, which ap- erre . and will continually s ckness and death—whatevex with light 2 leave , and his follow ts proved The Ghrist of Unitarianism. By Rev. Minot J. Savage. 7 DO not helieve in the deity of Christ man in time will be de- | miracles” attribu fullness of his divine and set aside natural laws. : Dr. Lyman Ab- cles een recorded s s God minus in- men evi- man plus infin But any one’s ¢ n d my miné open & men all natior and o c been attributed to all of = them. These beliefs are held without proof as red tr: - New of a leaf is brought about Testament it is writte n hath tion of a thin layer of vege- God at any time. s in con at the point where the leaf tion to the Old . in which Stem joins the branch of the tre After many per claim to seen God. the leaf ceases to make starch and sugar In one instance God-came down and 3 for tree, this tissue begins to grow, roast. veal with Abraham; in another he and ly cuts the leaf. e falling of walked in the g of Eden until he is dependent upon the same found Adam and talked with him, process. All things are marvels. ttle podl shows God truly as the Niagara Falls. oyt The divine exists in nature and in man as it did in Christ. Perhaps it does not differ in kind—only in degree. A -stone shows as much of the divine nature as is capable of holding. The Sioux In- dian reveals something of God., as much as his nature permits. But the capacity of man to hold and to reveal the divine nature is constantly increasing. Bibles do 77 AM asked to state in a few words why | I believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. The best way to defend a faith is to not create religlon; religion writes bibles. define ft, and I shall simply content Many religions have their Bibles—as myself with stating here what I under- cred te them as ours to us. They are all Stand to be meant by the divinity of inspired, in a broad sense of the word, Jesus Christ. They represent the aspirations of man and There is perhaps no better or fuller statement of that faith than is contained in the first chapter of the Gospel accord- ing to St. John: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. * * * And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” A friend sits at your side In absent- minded meditation. What is going on in his soul is absolutely unknown to you. You speak to him; he comes out of his eclusion and enters into conversation with you. His words manifest his thoughts to you. He reveals himself to you by those words. The declaration of John is that God is not the unknown and unknowable. He has always been a speaking and self-revealing God. He has the divine element in him; they prove his upward -tendencies; they show that his nature is essentfally religious. Christ demonstrated this divine nature by his life to a greater degree than other men. 1 do mot believe that in any of his works he disregarded those natural laws. which are God's methods of carrying on his work. God unfolds himself in an or- defly manner. He works gradually and through man’s comprehensive nature. Possibilities are latent in all men of e perfencing moments of exaltation, of d -vine fnspiration. At these moments won- ders happen. Some are cured of diseases; others are converted and forsake evil. 3od is infiriite power; man, partaking of his nature, can reveal God; but only through himself and according to his in- dividual capacity. I do not believe in the R 0000000000000 0000000000000 00000000000 ¢0¢ & The Christ of the Christian Scientists. By Miss C. S. Bradshaw, C. D S. Spectal to The Sunday Call. Copyrighted, 1599. HERE is no day in - the twelvemonth, "be it feast day, which is richer in th ome superstitions, divination: rhymes, sayings, legends, etc., which go to make up what is gen- erally known as folk lore than Eas- ter, the “queen of festi the thought of Chris! Sacrificial Lamb—tHe first fr dead. The festival of Easter to the fact that the early fathers c church, in their en to convert pagans of ancient Rome to the Christi faith, met their greatest difficulty attachment of those heathen to the gan festivals, rites and ceremonies. There is nothing to which the attachment of the people of all nations is stronger than to days which they have been accustomed to celebrate as joyous and religious fes The early fathers found it impossible to convert not only the fomans but the heathens of all nations if they insisted upon the absolute abandonment of their heathen holidays. They wisely dectded, therefore, that the best course was to re- tain the least objectionable of these and 0 to modify them that they ghould hav. a Christlan instead of a heathen signif cance. It is to this wise policy on the part of the early fathers of the church that we are indebted for that most beautiful of festivals, Christmas day, which was de- signed to replace the old Roman Saturna- lia or Feast of Saturn, and the great fes- tivals which the ancient Germanic and entire or fast > quaint owes its ori Celtic races were accustomed to celebrate at the same time of year i{n honor of the festitvi 1 of lov intended God Jul or Yul; lottery of the ancient Romans; similar examples. Easter may occur as or as late as April can give any intell is the ca or of the rule by which t date on which Easter shall fall in any given vear is fixed. To comprehend thi matter it must be borne in mind that F ter is not only the substitution of a Chris- tian festival for a heathen one, but t it is analogous to the ‘“Passover” feast of the Jews, which, like the.Christian Eas- ter, is preceded by a fast similar to t Christian Lent. When the Christian POOOOOOOCOOOOOOIOES® early as March Very few persons ount why tkh Five Answers __ | ® From Five Ministers ® of Five Denominations. ® & ©000000000006000000 o his teaching true, that the power to ove come the world, flesh and all evil is Go given to every one who will keep hi commandments. The prophets spirituall discerned the Christ, the Messiah, before the time of Jes And after the fulfill- ment of prophecy comes ‘the later revela- tion of “‘the larger Christ,” the spiritual idea of infinite love, which will unite all mankind as one fold under one shep- herd. formation greet there is the see- The signs of this tran us on every sid ing eve and hearing ear. The ‘Christ the Christian Selentists cept is the living truth of God. The * 1 am with you always,” practical effectual help; to open the prigon doors, to unioose the bands of wickedness and to let the oppressed go free and to bring peace and harmony to our present thought. This truth heals the sick to-day and re- forms the sinmer thro enlightened understanding of the science of its spirit- ual law. Jes gave to his iples an unde anding of the riptures -in all that pertained to himself. And this spirit- ual understanding of the Seriptures is bes ing revealed to-day through the teach- ings of Christian science. It 1s work rather than words that prove the truth we hold. The Christian Scientist has undertaken to follow Christ as a practical example in life and works, and because he is do- ing so with some measure of success is the only reason why he has gained tha thoughtful consideration of intelligent people. The Ghrist of Lyman Abbott's Faith. By Rev. Lyman @bbott. thus revealed himself in nature through the works of creation; he has revealed himself by the brooding of his spirit in the hearts of men; he has pre-eminently revealed himself by dwelling in one human life and filling that life full of himself. This is John’s statement of the divinity of Christ, and it accords with Christ's statements, such as “I am in the Father and the Father in me. RS The “laughing. plant” produces a. black, beanlike seed, small doses of which, when dried and powdered, intoxicate like laughing gas. The person indulging in the drug acts like a madman for about an hour, when he becomes exhausted and falls into a death-like sleep, which often lasts several hours. ARG The surface of the sea is estimated at 150,000,000 square miles, taking the whole surface of the globe at 197,000,000 square miles, and its greatest depth supposedly equals the height of the highest moun- tain, or four miles. ter was first established it was celebrated “What do you mean?’ at the same time as the Jewish ‘Pass- Why, - your Grace, we've camé:fo. litt over,” which commemorated the passing you because it is T Monday. -/ Tha over of the houses » children of Is- men lifted all us womer: yesterday 1 he rael by the destroy 1 when to-day we lifts the o smote the Egyptians, but there soon arose It was some _timé": hiéfore between Christians of Jewish and thc churchman could be the n gentile descent a fierce ¢ whether Baster should he cel g m mediately at the terminati his fair visit - crown : In m: England n ended on the fourtee h 4 it regard to the day of her Ea which th of the moon, wi the week, or whe celebrated only on the fir time immemor week, commonly known the par to ca tians of Jewish descer and bring ) - form and cele fore r ever one of the Monday. t accurred next good man is ot the moon do he four- r many . of the moon. vears two Easter days wer brated by the two opposir cept when it chanced that rite, ing the fourteenth day it in Sunday, when both bodi € et ants kept it on the same da} 1 1ld i differences T ton s Wi - the year 32 by T T which decreed in only on Sunday. no rule for determir tival in differ e Roman cl should be the fir teenth day of t happens on or which until the Council of Orle should be kept by all church on the same day according to th and it w not until the 669 that the acceptance of universal r in both the Western churc The same termining th be observed at the T N of the old folk ¢ with Easter are meant t rising of our Savior f of the quaintest of these 1s on in Warwickshire, Lancashire and other countie called “lfting” o lift or heave the day, and the we men on the followi v performed by two T upon whict own. He e Pri protdtind e ncoy- to be heaved ance, raised and troublesomre as: I often 4 ta -abdtcute." is was inte thie. ALst B Easter. Apropo: has been dote is told of few years before to remain for an h of a Lancashire tow her:on E ar amazement 1, bthef ot Mastert llr‘lnl !:\ hen three or fou morning by exclaimin *Christ i risen. Y artments and 2 whereupon the persor tediw tered his apartm ar o ¢ sl it m they T come, to lift “To lift me!” i the good man Belief of an\UnbeiieVer. R. G. Ingersoll. first and of the Each t. 18 ‘he Holy Ghost the third G. INGERSOLL OLONEL RO IK says that the ( \_yail their or tia Je f the New Testament do not so much as l” L Know when he was born. According to the botl fic's expressed views on the subject, but existed before Luke was mistaken when he wrote a5 olafis hiss) s born while Cyrenius was ¢ ld z Christ wa hor, because Cyren ed until after the death of Her the 1 was not appoint- At thi its limit, en David not 3 Matthew Let us pray her “was Jacob, whi ob Inge ! was Joseph's father; th was no such ck 2 ile Matthew s nd fled He ¢ Mary reth ot that these agnostic, either falsel the writers wrote “How is it the son of God? said that Joseph was to by an angel. How could Jose he hdd been visited in 4 dres g Couid he know that the an angel? It ail Joseph was asleep. Wha of one who is asleep wortl cording to the churc son in the trinity, hi gues tr ph know that m by an visitor was ream. about eruci not be occurred is t guet New Testa- 1 better. 1ad never