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...yesterday afternoon. Dr. Van Dyke read the psalm and offered the prayer. Dr. Abbott took for his text the sixth chapter of Isiaah. Isaiah, he said, was not prompted to deliver his message from any feeling of his own worthiness, but from a feeling that he had received from God, a blessed truth which it was his duty to tell to men. All of us should feel this duty to impart to men the truths which are given us by God. It is the students and that class of people that have the advantages of education that should carry their...
...fifth conference meeting last night Rev. Lyman Abbott spoke on the Bible in its Relation to Modern Problems. There is, said Dr. Abbott, a personal God, an infinite being who thinks and feels, a being who has made man in his own image, able to communicate himself to man and to effect his life. Through the ministration of divine spirit, truth may be revealed. It is the generally church belief that the Bible is the real inspired revelation of God. The book is a dead thing and cannot be inspired; the writers were inspired, and, being quickened by the spirit...
...Bible as a collection of books is clearly the product of evolution. For many years man wrote about God in history and nature, and a few of these books remaining, constitute the Bible. The construction of the Bible was never decided by any conference of church members; Nature decided...
...conception of God is traced through the Biole. First, God is not the only god, but is placed above all other gods. Then there grew the conception of only one God, others being of no account. But in the time of David, God became the god for the individual. Later there was a prophet who saw a God that washed away sins and loved men in spite of their iniquity. So there are three conceptions of God; the God of nature, the God of justice and the God of love...
...Heaven, and of Divinity are the tenets of the unbelievers; that this creed and the blackness of an eternal grave to look forward to, are what unbelievers offer as an alternative for the Christian religion with all its beauty, of hope in future happiness and trust in a loving God...