WHAT IS HIS CREED?

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 4

WHAT IS HIS CREED?

Preaching at the City Temple^—tlio occo " eion being the thirty-ninth anniversary o ' the starting of tho Thursday services—th [J Rev. R. J. Campbell took for his subject Jj "Tho Spiritual Witness of tho Universo."t i It was maintained very plausibly, he said ." that God was either not omnipotent or els J' not benevolent, and many thoughtful peopl had given up believing in tho ordinar; Christian view of the nature of God. Mi ~ Robert Blatchford said, "Only man help I man; only man pities;' only man trios t ," save.". Ho.wished to state as definite! ' r and plainly as he could that they could no s separate man from God. Thero was bu „ oiio life in this universo expressing itself ii various forms. To speak of God was t< .' speak of existenco as a whole. Christianit; ' and modorn science wero both telling then that everything that existed was part of i universal order, and the outcome of som 0 primordial substance in whom or which the; ~ lived and moved and had their being. Th only question was whether that universa substanco was intelligent and conscious am kind. Thoy wero too- apt to tako for grantei that lovo in God or man should always impl; o a desire to shield others from pain. Th< d higher a man rose in the expression of hi p own possibilities tho stronger became thi !. corresponding witness of the univorso to th .essential goodness of life,