১৬৬ তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিকা تتتنانت تتشتت لتشتت تتكتلتقلة এবং আপনাদিগের নিকটে এখন আমি এই প্রার্থনা করি যে সকলে ভ্রাতৃ-ভাবে মিলিত হইয়। অপরাজিত উৎসাহ ও বল সহকারে ব্রাহ্মধর্মের উন্নতি সাধন করিয়! জীবন সাথক করুন । o X مسمعانييميس. § W. N E W MAN AND H IS; E V A N G E L l C A I, C IR, IT I Č S, I'Row The Wes. MINSTER REV, ow. | survey of Mr. Newman's literary libours, vyvo riaturally recall our thoughts to the sociaj work -has ained to do, the intellectual positiot مh “hich he occupies, the religious creed that he roclaims. } His o t V密 claracter al out then, whieh makes their literar
- * s § 4 * rn *rits quite secondary : they are, in some sense, his life; his life, even more than hit
l 4 { { {. (); the termination of this critical controversial books havt thought. Nay, they are the life and tought v f, ail who have bad the sorrow, or the privilege according as we estimate it, of discerning the false and t and aspiring to the acquisition of a larger and w is e k \. obsolete in old, forms of faith more human creed. In our day, unbelief is common, and, as a necessary consequence of a supposed detection of falsehood, it is inevitable as, beneficial. But unbeives must not and cannot be the final attitude of our intellech, For it avails little to reject the false, unless to rejection be a preparation for the reception 세 Few men have felt this in ·»f tine ! i ue. r{՝ deeply than Mr. Newman. Hence his persistent endeavour to reconstruct a religion humanity, to give us back under what {) լ՝ | he | ancient slith that made men strong, valiant, and trust'il; "ouceives to be truer formas the } { f ! done. M the “Soul,” “Theiam, Doctrinal and Practical,” all establish his genuineness and sincerity : all show how he has suffered, thought, and” His sympathy with man, his love of truth, his desire for the physical and spiritual elevation of our race; his readiness to champion goodness; to support freedom; to diffuse wisdom; to procure for the oppressed nations liberty of thought, of action, of social life; to extend the rights of a free people in propor % | i o |
tion to their moral and intellectual capacity; are known by his deeds and spoken words, as well as by his writings. Distinguished by his unwearied industry, he has shown his patriotic and cosmopolitan sympathy in various literary and active direction., in which we est, not now follow him. There are men whose classical learning is superior; whose mathemitic attainments are far greater ; whose testbetic faculty is more delicate, but there is 99 man in our generation who, possessing sie numerons accomplishments, has so nobly, so un equivocally stood forth as the representaonce of suit/usuu'elios and religious aspirai ۹۰ و ۱ ل 4. دی tive ί It is improbable, we think, that his methods vill be iinally accepted; it is that, this poor distracted age of ours will ever i nprobable attain rest. In this prevailing seepticism, the grow.ng discredit into which all theological and metaphysical science has fallen, the present imperfect and precarious posi#
ion of any natural and the now system of philosophy undisciplined state of the affections and faculties, it is far more likely that the dream of catholic unity will be indefinitely postponed, that the human Inind, confused as if by celestial panie and preternatural terror, will, in its hurman spasmodic efforts to avoid the loneliness of unbelief, and to escapa the practical and logical incon sequence of the current creeds, oscillate that inspired them with fortitude in the batUle ; fromm heregy to orthodoxy, from sceptieist:, to of .,: , huibility before the Ideal of their helt t hope for the future; patieńce “r o and conscience and consolation in the present; reverence and love for the past. We do not claim for Mr. Newman success in his enterprise, but a least he has exhibited in any of the qualities 碱"6 the conditions of success: courage, honesty, disinterestedness, mental intrepidity, dévotion to a righteous purpose, quiet endurance, and p“rsevering endeavour. The “Phases of Faith,” | o f
l. #; who procla {& l Catholicism, with a sad and monotonous alternation, till long after we and our children have ceased to speculate on the problems of existence, or to feel “the burthen and the mystery of all this unintelligible world.” Still, a cordial welcome and sincere applause are due to all those who strive to restore as to faith, to moral grandeur, to the sense of an inward law awful as the voice of God in that the old Hebrew
