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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1890.
THE AGE OF DOUBT.
Men of All Classes Are Questioning
the Existence of a God.
HOT ALL ACE MORALLY CORRUPT.
Many Are Led Aside by Sentiment and
Others by Seasoning.
PEOGKESS IS MATERIAL XXOWLEDGE
WEITTEX FOR THE DISIMTCII.1
The essential assertion of all religions is
the assertion of the existence of God. This
assertion is eo essential that if it were taken
ont of religion there would be no religion
left It is the heart of all the creeds.
This essential assertion cannot be evaded
by declining to deny it. It demands state
ment and will not be satisfied with any
thine short of resolute belief. Wherever
this is not jriven there is an end to religion.
This essential assertion of religion has never
lacked questioners. So lone as the body is
more tangible than the soul, and the world
is more visible than God, and the interroga
tion mark continnes to be used in human
speech, there will be people who will be in
doubt about it. There are a good many
such people now. There are three
ates by which doubt gets en
trance into the mind: By the gate
of conscience, by the gate of sentiment, and
by the gate of reaton. If the watchman by
the gate of conscience proves a traitor, in
comes doubt. That is the testimony of ex
perience. A man who has something the
matter with his conscience is pretty sure to
have something the matter with his creed.
His lips may put the words of it into
speech; he may not falter into ominous
silence, like the demon bridegroom in Mrs.
Browmnr's poem, when he ventures into
prayer. But his heart is dumb. Only the
pure in heart can see God; only the good can
know God.
MOKE THAX IXTEL1.ECT SEEDED.
Into all the higher judgments which men
have to make there must more bebrightthan
acuteness of intellect, if the judgment is to
be just. The logician is not fitted by
his logic alone to pronounce upon the
excellence of music. Something more than
metaphysical shrewdness is needed for the
appreciation of poetrr. It is said that a
popular declaimer against the Christian
'laith came back from Europe and declared
that all modern appreciation of the old art
masters is a delusion. Xobody, he affirmed,
can really see in those dim pictures any
thing to admire. But that did not tettle the
matter. The American artists did not evac
uate Borne. It settled only one thing,
namely, that the critic's mind, was so that
artistic beauty of that kind made no impres
sion upon it. Into all judgments upon the
assertions of religion the moral nature must
enter.
It is not true, hovrever, as some say, that
all unbelief means moral defect It is not true
that doubt always gets in by the gate of con
science. Padre Agostico, whom they call the
modern Savonarola, began his second lecture
in Florence two years ago, with these words:
"My brethren, the reasoning faculties of
mankind, Christian civilization, the welfare
of our country are now being subjected to a
very hard trial. They are all ahte threat
ened bv the sacreligious attack of atheism.
Misguided men, refusing the universally
accepted tradition of a long course of cen
turies, and the instructive lessons of history,
trampling under loot all the teachings of
philosophy, the interests of society, the law
of the land, and the rnle of their own con
science, have declaied open war against
God. Day by day ther pursue their iniqui
tous campaign, carrying it with vindictive
pertinacity and implacable hatred into
every province of the human intellect. They
not only refuse to know God, but they deny
His existence."
A. OXE SIDED VIEW.
Presently he declared that exceptions to
the general rnle that all men believe in God
"can only be found among men of corrupt
morals and diseased conscience."
Where this eloquent monk got his ideas
about the character of modern doubt,
whether from books or from men, I know
not But I venture the opinion, from these
words of his, that he has studied more with
his eyes than with his ears, and -more by
lampligh' than by daylight unless men are
different Italy from the men whom we all
know. It seems as if be must have known
better, if he had gone out of his monastic
cell into the streets. 2obody to-day, who
knows men, could quote these words with
any commendation. It would be a happy
state of things if none had a doubt about
God except the vindictive, the Iniquitous,
the ignorant, and the vicious. But we may
as well face the plain fact There are men
and women to-day who are not willing to
affirm that God exists, whose pure, unselfish,
helpful, upright lives are evident to every
body. They are Christians in all except
their creed.
There is a second gate. The gate of senti
ment One summer morning, under a blue
sky and beside the bluest of all seas, was en
acted one of the strangest ceremonies of
modern times. A dead body lay along the
sand, and a little company of men were
piling up a heap of wood beside it They
made the wood into an altar, laid the un
clothed body on it, poured out wine and oil
as a libation to an unknown god, set the
wood on fire, and watcned the body burn to
ashes. It was a pigan sacrifice. 'But the
dead man had not been even so much as a
pagan. He who lay there dead had stood once
upon a peak of the Alps, and looked
out over the glories of nature about him and
up into the illimitable sky above him, and
had set his name in bold letters on the face
of the cliff, with a title after it "Percy
Bhelley, Atheist."
TOE STOBY OF TEECY SnELEET.
Shelley was an atheist by stress of senti
ment He hated conventionalism; he re
belled against the tyranny of tradition; he
loved liberty. He wanted to do his own
thinking and to make up his own mind.
This kind of gate for doubt swings wide in
the minds of bright youngfellows in college,
end in the minds, also, of a good many
thoughtful young men and women out of
college. They have made the discovery that
man is a reasoning being, and they want to
make further experiments. They come
upon new books and new ideas
which contradict what they have learned at
home. Ther want to be wide-minded, lib
eral, hospitable to new truth. They want to
stand on their own ieet, and to work ont
their own conclusions.
That state of mind is, of course, eminently
hopeful; but its first turn is apt to be toward
unbelief. The new, for a time, drives out
the old. After awhile, in the experience of
most young people whose judgment is well
balanced, the old is recognized as true
after all. The new is not abandoned, but
rather helps to a better understanding of
the old. That is what makes intellectual
progress possible. For a time, however, as
I say, through the gate of sentiment comes
doubt This whole generation is in the
sophomore year. It is in the era of
discovery. Nothing has equaled it since
that wonderful renaissance time whose four
hundredth anniversary we are just now get
ting ready to keep. In such a general
frame of mind, new ideas crowding daily
upon men's attention, new triumphs daily
being won scientific, political, intellectual,
ecclesiastic, theological old theories being
discredited, old confessions of faith being
assailed with hard names. "Whither?"
the universal question, and nobody quite
able yet to answer where under such men
tal conditions doubt is perfectly natural.
It is inevitable. It comes in by the wide
gate of sentiment
THE GATE OF REASOIT.
Doubt enters also by a third gate, the
gate of reason. The fact may as well be
jaced that there are sober-minded and
thoughtful men and women to-day whose
reason tells them that the whole question as
to God's existence is a doubtful matter.
Willingly and gladly would they be
lieve, but reason, as they understand iu
voice, forbids. There are genuine intellect
ual difficulties in the fay.
These difficulties are most of them as old
as the race, but they are emphasized by the
peculiar intellectual conditions of our time.
The, greater part of the thinking which is
being done in this generation is in a ma
terial direction. The emphasis is on the
physical side. Whoever looks back 60
years, whether as an observer of social mat
ters like Mr. Walter Besant, or as an ob
server of scientific matters like Prof. Hux
ley, is very sure to lay stress upon the won
derful progress and betterment which has
affected the things which can be seen, and
handled, and measured. Within our own
memory two new and most significant words
evolution and electricity have come into
the vocabulary of common people.
THE QBEAT ACHIEVEMENTS.
So much has been aebieved by men of
science that they seem to a good many peo
ple to deserve the title which Gordon's sol
diers had in China the Ever-Victorious
Army. So many old ideas have been dis
proved, so many ghosts laid, so many extra
ordinary things shown to belong after all to
the orainary course of nature, eo many mys
teries brought into the .revealing light, so
many "bottomless pits" proved to be ex
actly such and such a number of feet deep,
that it seems sometimes as if everything
would by and by be measured and accounted
for.
The Society for Psychical Research be
lieves that there is really something behind
the ghost stories, something which they will
be able to explain to everybody's satisfac
tion in a year or two. And a great many
people belong to an unorganized so
ciety for theological research, and be
lieve that there is really something,
behind the universal faith in God,
something which can be traced back one of
these days to tne suggestions of a a ream, or
to the sighing: of the wind, and adequately
explained away. The lust of explanation
has hold on all onr thought We want to
understand everything. We an suspicious
about whatever cannot be made plain. This
prevalent intellectual condition affects our
theology. There is doubt, to-day, in the
very air.
Having said thns much about the need
for the defending of the essential assertion
of religion, I purpose next week to come to
the defense itself, to the argument for God.
Geokge Hodges.
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The Eight-Hoar Movement.
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Last Excursion to Washing-ton CItr.
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See the new styles of Paris Exposition
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No Plot! No Tears!
ALL FUN!
THE TRIO OF LAUGH-MAKERS,
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Presenting Their Rip-Roaring Farce Comedy
TWO OLD
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE
Mr. E. D. Wilt, Lessee and Manager.
RETURN. 8ix Nights, Wednesday and Satur
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DANIEL FROHMAN'S
li bw York
THEATRE WIFE COMPANY.
Presenting the famous four-act so
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Henry C. De Mille. antbors "lord
Chumley," "The Cnaritv Ball," etc.
"THE WIFE"
"THE WIFE"
"THE WIFE"
"THE WIFE'
'-THE WIBE"
"THE WIFE"
Mrs. Berlan-Gibbs.as Helen,
and
Mr. Eovd Putnam,
Mr. Henry Herman,
Mr. 8. Miller Kent,
Mr. Henry Talbot,
Mr. Thomas II. Barns,
Mr. C. B. IIeld.
Mr. A. W. Gregory,
Miss Frances Gaunt,
Miss Ethel GreybrooKe,
Miss Etta Hawkins,
Miss Eliza Logan,
Miss Olive DuntOD.
"THE WIFE."
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THE WIFE."
"THE WIFE."
"THE WIFE."
"THE WIFE."
ACT L Mrs. Ives' villa, Newport July.
Tho amateur theatricals. The old affair.
"The Lover."
ACT IL Reception room at Senator Dexter's,
Washington. February. Mrs. Dexter's
ball. The quarrel. "The Husband."
ACT III. Library in Rutherford's house,
Washington, game evening. The inves
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Tie."
(Midnight view of the Capitol.)
ACT IV. Same scene. April. The ecllpie.
The mission to St. Petersburg. "The
Wile "
Produced with all tho scenery
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the original models of Mr. W.
H. Day. and detaU of rare
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REGULAR PRICES:
25c, 60c, 75c and $1.
Next week Thos. W. Keene in repertoire.
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EXTRA.
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Week of April 21,
The Romantic Actor, Robt
MANTELL
IN A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION
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"THE WIFE."
"THE WIFE."
THE WIFE."
"THE WIFE."
THE WIFE."
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GEORGE CONNOR Manager.
EDW. KEEN AN Business Manager.
Week Beginning Monday, April 14.
IN CURIO HALL. .
Greatest collection of Wonderful,
Amusing and Interesting Won
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Allegheny.
THEATORIUM.
World's Great Specialty Com
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20 of the Most Re
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For Particulars See Small Bills.
Admission, 10c; Children, 5c.
Coming Next Week Deitrich, the
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Sale of Seats begins Thursday
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MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14.
Matinees, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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Lord Fanntleroy's Recep
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TMPERIAIj HALL,
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DANCING RECEPTIONS EVERY
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"All the latest dances tiucnt."
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TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL 22, 1890.
Reserved scats, SO ceDts. ,ipl385
NEW ADYER.TISE3IEXTS.
EXTRA.
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COMMENCING
MONDAY NIGHT, APRIL 21.
Six Nijhts. Two Matinees.
ME. ARIEL BAENEY PRESENTS
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Supported by Mr. GEORGE LEABOCE:
and a most excellent company of
players, appearing in
LOUIS XI. Sia ,
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RICHELIEU Wednesday Night, April 231
OTHELLO Th11"31? Night, April 2i
Wednesday Matinee LOUIS XI
Saturday Matineo SHYL0CK
REGULAR PRICESWILL PREVAIL.
Admission SI 00. 75c, 50c and 25c
The sale of seats will open at the Box Office
Thursday, April 17, at 9 A. jr. apl3-10
HARRIS' THEATER.
feel CimemaiiiJIaMay, Aeril 14.
Every Afternoon and Evening.
WILBUR OPERA CO.
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In the following repertoire:
Monday Princess of Trebizonde
Tuesday Bohemian Girl
Wednesday... Grand Duchess
Thursday FaDiayolo
Friday Mascotte
Saturday Matinee Bohemian Girl
Saturday Night Princess of Trebizonde
"Week April 2I-Lost in New York.
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Reserved seats, 50, S3, 25 cents. Sale of seats
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