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Bishop Burgess On Monotheism

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
November
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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OPENING LECTURE IN THE HOBART GUILD COURSE

Atheism Not Now Fashionable - While Message of Religion and Science Differs They Do Not Conflict

Bishop Burgess, of Long Island, opened the lectures on the Baldwin foundation before the Hobart Guild in St. Andrew's church Sunday evening before a large audience. He treated of the Oneness of God and of the message of religion as distinguished from the message of science. He spoke of the scientific theory of the origin of man by evolution and the account of the creation of man as given in Genesis. Both might be true. The one was as if a printer might tell how a book was made. The actual manufacture of it, and the other as if one told how the author had written the book. Science had proven the oneness of the Creator by the uniformity of the natural laws. The Bishop contrasted monotheism and pantheism and by many eloquent references to history showed the advance of religion. Atheism was no longer fashionable. The atheist was now such in secret. His text was the first and the greatest commandment, the love of god, and he showed how much higher and purer was the message of religion than the message of science although neither contradicted the other.