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The day of the belief in a personal God is gone, according to Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York, who preached in Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago recently.

"Science has broken down this belief and philosophy has destroyed it. God is the source of all life, all thought. He is the source of life, with the plowman as well as with the poet. This is far from the idea that God is a great big man, seated on a white throne in the center of the universe. Old churchmen stick to this belief because they are afraid to lose the humanity element in God. They want the personal element. But they need not have a personal God to feel this.

"When we see a painting of a great master and study its lines, as the beauty of the masterpiece overcomes us we feel the power of the master without knowing him personally. So it may be when we study nature. God paints the leaves autumn colors with His invisible hand, but the painting is going on. Thinking men no longer believe in a personal God. God instead is about us, without us, within us.

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