Article December 16, 1905 Issue

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The modern theology gives us God, only it is a God near at hand, and not afar off. It is not an angry God, who has hid himself from His children until eternity, but it is the visible Life of the universe, folding us close to himself, with the warmth of the true Father. The modern theology is just as far from discarding the doctrine of sin as it is from discarding the doctrine of righteousness. It does not even discuss the problem of wrong-doing; it undertakes to cure it. It has little use for the future hells and heavens as places of punishment and reward, for it seriously proposes the creation of a present heavenly state in this world. The atonement is just as vital with a liberal believer as with the soundest orthodox; but it is a literal, real atonement, that brings man and God closer together. It does not consist in the death of a victim, but in the awakening of love and honor.—The Christian Register.

Blessed assurance! The Spirit is with us as it was with the disciples of old—as it was with Paul when his spiritual vision was amended, as it was with John when his spiritual vision was unsealed; and this spirit of Christ is doing, as of old, wonderful things,—subduing human passions as he calmed the waves of Galilee, opening blind eyes as he did in those other days, unsealing deaf ears, loosing dumb lips, healing the crippled limb and the withered hand: aye, calling out of their graves many and many a Lazarus, though they be foul with corruption; giving beauty for depravity, peace for war, comfort for sorrow, life for death,—in other words, saving the world from sin. When the great Sabbath of the moral world shall come, it is not for us to say; but it will come, and Christian teaching and the spirit of the Master shall complete the work, that God may be all in all.

The Universalist Leader.

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