Article May 29, 1902 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from F. M. Harlan

Cunningham Geikie, D.D., says in The Examiner:—

"Nothing causes more anxiety to doubtful minds, interested in the great matters of the soul, than to form a clear idea of what is meant when they are told that 'faith' is everything and that they are safe if only they believe. 'What am I to believe?' is the difficulty.

"The mere acceptance of the lessons of Christ's life and teachings as presented by the Evangelists is not, as in his day, what, in ours, is meant by 'faith;' that sacred word having long passed beyond meaning simple trust in God as revealed to us by our Lord, and having come to mean our assent to a string of theological propositions laboriously invented by the subtlest intellects of successive generations, and expressed by them in abstract metaphysical terms, which are quite beyond the intelligent comprehension of ordinary men, if, indeed, they were more than a babble of dark sayings even to their creators.

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