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Show U ni tarianism in Utah love him or in all that is it seems not, and it proposed reasonable were for or wisest to say little and salvation our regardless acquiesce of whether "Do the will," the exhortation not. "and you shall know the doctrine, whether it be of [cf. John 7: 17]. This is unreasonable, of course, for runs, God" saying, Swallow the medicine and when you are cured you will understand that you have chosen the right doctor; unreasonable, but no matter, it's a queer world, and God is a jealous God, a consuming fire, very angry with the it is like wicked, and if He has things on earth as in the conclusions not been He hates of his misrepresented, He hates few self-reliant thinker who a own intellect. If their trusts theory be true, this God will confound the wisdom of this self-reliant soul and justify the foolishness of those who so-called scheme of salvation. vain to expect to convince for it is repugnant left, then, and theory of its truth trust in be this true, it is by reasoning, The only common sense. people brought up to believe that they persuade a certain class of impres sionable people who are not logically inclined, to accept the great theory on trust because of its age and respectability and its supposed practical bearings in the way of benefiting mankind. From the standpoint, then, of those whose minds are under the sway of this great theory of the universe that is so often vaunted as the "religion of the Bible" (as though that book presented but one religion or one theory of the world), from the standpoint of those inside, we see clearly that revivals are justifiable. Indeed, we wonder that a real believer in that theory can ever do anything else but warn souls to flee from the wrath to come. Why should such believer ever be content to weed his garden, or roof his house, or cast a vote on election day? These are the things that perish; he should only live to save souls, his own and way believe it, and 174 people to reason is to have If their to |
