INTELLECT AND FAITH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 27 October 1885, Page 4

INTELLECT AND FAITH.

A conurm'ON'DKM' asks us why it is that there is moio intellectual strength m the party of faith than in the paity «>f infidelity, when faith puts the intellect under subjection, and requires that the learned, like the simpK shall accept tho explanations of theology with childlike trustfulness. The answer is that men of strong intellect are apt to find that they cannot satisfy the religious sentiment, which i>> also strong in them, in any other way than by Riving up icasomng about religion and allowing then emotions full play by the aid of faith. They get relief and reßt by ceasing from vain inquiries and falling back upon unquestioning heiief. They want to gi\e \ent to their re ligious feelings and their desire to worship. But at this time, perhaps more than at •*ny other since the advent of Christianity, the number of those who have given up faith altogether id steadily and ove^i rapidly increasing, and it unquestionably includes a large part of the stiongest and best educated minds of the world. They are adopting a philosophy which ignores the supernatui.il, and consequently takes no account of theology except ts a miperstition which has had an enormous influence upon mankind. They are not troubled about their future state, for they are not at all sure nbout immortality, even if the future life does not seem to them contradictory to probability, and they are not oppressed by a <-cnse of sin, for it appears to them that they do about as well as could be expected of them. Yet many of theso men, too, have the religious sentiment strongly developed, and the barrenness of their philosophy^ on the emotional sido is often very nn&atixfactory to thorn. They cannot accept the existing irligioii, and they are vainly waiting for one to turn up which will better suit their notion-". Vainly, because bow can there bo a religion without f.nth ?— New York Sun.

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