Article November 17, 1898 Issue

REV. LYMAN ABBOTT'S NEW GOD

Philosophical Journal

The Rev. Lyman Abbott, in a late sermon at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, took as his subject the change in religious thought and theological conceptions in the last thirty or forty years. From a report of it, in the New York Sun, we glean the following conjectures about God:—

"Nobody can deny that in the last thirty or forty years there has been a change in religious conceptions. Many men have changed their views. I know that I have, and, although we cannot attack those who hold to the views which we think we have outgrown, the change must be illustrated by our own experience.

"God, I now think, is not apart from nature but dwells in nature. That he made this world and is now the engineer of it I cannot now believe. There are no forces; there is but one force, God. There are no causes, for there is but one great underlying cause. Natural and supernatural are the same.

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