Modern Philosophy. 105 principle is that God and man are truly one in substance and being, and that the character of God is revealed in the history of humanity. This evil doctrine makes God the partner with man in all the manifold and grievous wickednesses of human kind. I t makes Him particeps criminis in all the monstrous crimes, cruelties., uncleannesses and unnamable abominations, that have stained the record of huinanity. It makes Him really the prime actor in all sins and wickednesses, since the thought and impulses prompting them originate with Him. Thus God is charged with all the evil deeds which the Bible denounces, and against which the wrath of the God of the Bible is de clared. sa ta n ' s pledg e . It may be that, somewhere in the dark places of this sinful world, there lurks- a doctrine more monstrously wicked, more characteristically satanic than this, which is now installed in our seats of learning and there openly venerated as the last word of matured human wisdom; but, if such there be, the writer of these pages is not aware of its existence. That doc trine is virtually the assurance, given under the seal of those who occupy the eminences of human culture, learning and wis dom, that the pledge of the serpent given to the parents of the race of what would result if they would follow his track, has at last been redeemed. “Ye shall become as God,” he de clared; and now the leaders of the thought of the day unite in proclaiming that man and God are truly one substance and nature. Beware! Beware! This teaching is, indeed, ac cording to human tradition—the most ancient of all human tra ditions;—it is according to the basic principles of the world and of the god of this world, and not according to Christ. No greater danger menaces the younger men and women of the present generation than the danger that some man, some smooth-tongued, learned and polished professor, may make a prey of them by means of philosophy and vain deceit.
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