THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1326, 2 January 1912, Page 4

THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST.

A KEPLY TO BrSHOP JULIUS,

If you read the account of the startting sermon on tho Divinity of Christ preached by Bishop Julius of Christchurch the other day," said thoEev.'W, Jellic, of the Unitarian Church, in the course ot his sermon on Sunday evening, you will have noticed that it is in the subconscious region of the soul that modern orthodoxy places tho Divinity of Christ. 110 adinils that orthodoxy has paid an almost idolatrous worship to Jesus, to the neglect of God, tho Lather let ho cannot divest himself of (he ancient belief that Jesus is God. If Jesus is God, one cannot help wondering- why worship paid to Him should be idolatrous, Jesus is God; God, yet ignorant; omniscient, yet growing in knowledge; perfect, yet sufieriug. Wo have no patience }V, lh *."<•'" «?I>l;«tri<>s, into which ti man like Bisnop Julius is forced bv tho creeds ol his church. They are obvious irreeonciliibles, When orthodoxy is compelled to face the difficulty by the growing doubts of church people, its defenders take refuge in lliis dim and mysterious, almost unknown land of the' sub-con-wiqus, They, arc able to take refuge there only because, it is so much unknown. It is (erribly slipper? grouml upon which lo base the all-important doc.lnno of the Divinity of Christ-thai doctrine, tho denial of which, as the Bishop tells, would bo absolutely fatal to tho life and progress; of Chrls'tianitv. l:or consider. The Divinity of Christ, in Iho doctrine of orthodoxy, surely implies the uniqueness of Christ. In fact, orthodoxy is nothing but a form of Uniliii'iiinisiu. But (hero is the slippcriness of the ground) there is nothing unique in tlint region of tho gnu-conscious, Jesus was not the only human being with a sub-conscious mind. Nor is (hero a parliclo of evidence that (lie sub-conscious mind of Jesus was in any way different, from tin; sub-conscious mind of you and' mo. if Ihe Godhead of Jesus rests upon the doctrine of Iho sub-conscious, then are we all divine? A position which .!. hardly think will suit orthodoxy. What Ihe result will be when orthodoxy is compelled to think out thischa.in of reasoning lo ils logical conclusion will be worth watching, fie who leis himself go upon that ground mu.-l sooner or lalcr find ■ liiiiiiu"lf in pure and simple UnitiriauiattL,".