Article August 8, 1903 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from Phillips, James Freeman Clarke, Kingsley, H. A. Bridgman, Bushnell, Wilhelmine von Hillern

The Rev. Minot J. Savage, in a sermon re ported in The Boston Herald, says:—

"The advance of truth never destroys anything that is real. No truth can destroy anything that ought not to be destroyed. It can only discover error and substitute for it that which is real. He who is afraid of the advance of knowledge shows that he does not trust the integrity of God, the integrity of the human mind. The changes that have taken place mean simply this: Humanity started in this world ignorant and feeble. It has been growing, and growth means out growth—outgrowing ideas which are no longer large enough to fit the facts.

"This doesn't mean the decay of religion. It means only those changes of theological thought and theory which must come if the world bravely faces the facts of the universe and dares to think, with all the theological results of its thinking. It means, however, a larger, grander, nobler kind of religion than the world has ever known before. Religion is not declining, nor is it going to decline. So long as God lives, so long as the universe exists, and so long as in the universe there is a man capable of thinking, of feeling, of acting, so long will men think concerning the relation existing between themselves and God, and so long will they attempt to make better that relation.

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