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...discourse, Mr. Fiske said, would be composed of fragmentary thoughts suggested by the verse in Genesis where the Serpent says to Eve: "Your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good from evil." The story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden, was found in the Vendedad, though the chief attribute of the Parsee Areman was that of a mischief-maker. In both accounts, there is a marked anthropomorphism. God, in jealous anger at man's divine knowledge of good and evil drives him away from the garden. It was not strange that...
Philosophers have said that the existence of pain and wrong is hard to reconcile with the idea of a God of love. In fact, ever since men began to seek for truth this matter has been the burden of their thought. The result has usually been that in order to defend the infinity of God's goodness they have had to admit that his power was finite. This was the position of John Stuart Mill, - the Manichaean view, though Mr. Mill did not go so far as to personify evil. The Calvinistic view is really nearer to modern thought, when...
...Donald of Trinity Church, Boston, preached last night in Appleton chapel from the text "Seek ye first the kingdom of God," taken from the sixth chapter of Matthew...
...Christians can never be bonded together, he said, by sects, but they all are held together by the fact that they are all fellow members of the Kingdom of god. It is hard to say exactly what we mean by this. The kingdom of God does not mean the Church, it does not mean those who have certain beliefs or even those who have lived virtuous lives. Christ never said exactly what it was. He compared it to many things but never defined it. If we study his teachings we learn that he is preparing a kingdom of all those...
...tell others what his teachings had been to them. This was the duty he expected of all his followers. A Christian must first be manly, noble and pure himself, and then teach others how to be so. The hardest part of a Christian's life was to confess God man to man, to try to make other men true and earnest in their life. Yet this is the duty of every Christian...