THE DAY OF REST.

Bay of Plenty Times, 20 March 1890, Page 1

THE DAY OF REST.

MODERN AGNOSTICISM. on the religious statistics of the la* c«iin», btitif wetw»ourbwn«f«iw« can see that an Mormon* number of the peopUoEEns^ad are practically agnostics. Many of tbem a*e doubtless clsased.and perhaps class tkemdenomination or ot&irV but in HMi f a cfc-a*eTiden<»abyrt«rlm^tiifr methodaof iJNo^it^ a^J^eir^isf ancef-rit W elan tbemassucn. They mre not Christians in practice, for they never aay ft prayer or enter an edifice 4»dicat«* to fcligion; tbeir langoa«e, tfceir habifc, and their argumenU ure too oflen te very opposite to what wonld W founded on a fragment eten of Okria* tian belief. Many of tbea, bowete?, openly trow that they are not Chri*. tianai tliey W« I* »®tyf* V^f 1 ito minUtirt aa hyDocrttet and « members oi ; a data inimical to tbo poor i^^^i!^^^*^ "* trading on the gullibility of the weak mMt'Wi&im mm mm latter form a large and growing etui, Ai to the origin of thii.eliwi much might be aaid. It » largely comnoeed ofnfctt feif ted with »ome inteaige^i 1 and wi^restlewmiirfi, who bftro been •et in wrong patha through want of proper instruction, dream* , stances, tititemimmAj4M*' th « •J 11 * templatton of poTerty and oppressiea In otheff^Tinfty f W «oß*#|Wf *J then is alwayi ft % Mtom^mp latent feeling J>i*w#gr tempts a nian—espedally a half -educated mftii . -to sep*fttt himself from the yiews of others, in order U show that he if snperioT to the common betdVtkftt hi « t&Bto<for Jiimself; ( <W«^ Tiews/ fit wiih all theee «M| operating, there is iw room for donbt that a. larso share of I>lanio rests nixnl the ' BiUblished Chntch. 1 It is til merely that tkojps/ii^OiJiiW becomo Agnostiei 'tan JK>toa thoJnooMiitMi. ciMof tite ettabliibed Clmrtb as a Church, and have, in oonseqmence, rejected it ; but it it the fact that mn^ of their censures ppon relMonaid upoa ndnist^ of religion hart a solid foundation, in fact, because th« Bsttibli«hedChurth ban been Urgely tho only thing that has come under their notice as a ejmtwfc. T}m ;bftf« lewnod to despise and bate it; and » their ignorance they t»tfiaferri4 iflAt contempt and hatred to Christianity in general and to the principles of Christian faith, That this is not an exaggeration will be found ott ofEftaki* ing alm.o«|;anf^p<Mtiqn of popular Agnosticism or Atheism which out com*6+ct<*».- Catholic News.