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The Number of Man (1909)

 

CONTENTS
 
SECTION I.
 
HUMAN ACTIVITIES OF THE PRESENT DAY
  Knowledge of physical forces and properties of matter applied to
      multiplying facilities for travel and inter-communication--Many
      running to and fro, and knowledge being increased,		 27
  Prophetic descriptions of the "Times of the End"; a great System
      and a great Leader,		 30
  The Second Wild-Beast of Revelation xiii.: The Last World Power, 35
  The Great Monopoly: the Religious "Trust," 43
 
THE TWO MAIN FIELDS OF HUMAN EXTERPRISE:
  Religion and Business.--Unprecedented activity in both fields; swift
      movements and sudden changes,		 45
  The Economic Field.--Efforts to better the economic condition of
      Human Beings. The [11] "Ills of Humanity"; what is their
      source? Do they proceed from Man's environment, or from
      Man himself,		 48
  Human schemes of deliverance based on the theory that the source
      of human ills is in Man's surroundings,		 50
  Aids to Industrial Development and some of the results of such
      development,		 53
  The Religious Field.--Great and rapid changes now taking place. All
      religious and all religious denominations affected. Conditions
      unprecedented in human history. A great and world-wide
      spiritual crisis at hand,		 56
  The religious and economic movements of the present day have
      certain features in common,		 60
  (1) Their Common Ideal is the formation of a Great Consolidation.
      The dream of a "Great Unification." Human interests of all sorts
      to be combined,		 61
  (2) They have for a Common Basis, "Faith in the Powers of Man" to
      effect a permanent betterment of the condition of humanity and
      to establish. "Ideal Social Conditions,		 66
  (3) They embrace a Common Religious Principle, "The Divinity of
      Man." Humanism and the coming "Church of Man, [12]		 69
  Human Science: its relation to the Present-Day Activities, 73
  Two Bodies of Human Beings now in process of formation: The
      "Body of Christ," and the Body of Antichrist,		 75
  Headless Humanity. The lack to be supplied: God's Method and
      Satan's,		 78
  Factors which Present-Day Movements overlook. Sin and the
      corruption of human nature not taken into account, and no
      provision for dealing with them,		 80
 
SECTION II.
NEW THEOLOGIES
  Conditions in the "latter days," 86
  The New Theology of Old England," 88
  Mr. Campbell's statement of the new and popular religious
      principles of our day,		 88
  The Divinity of Humanity. Every man his "God within," and is
      hence a discerner of truth,		 91
  Proofs--Scriptural and other--no longer needed. If "in search for
      truth, trust the Voice of God within you,"		 92
  The "Face of God," 94
  "No dividing line" between God's being and man's, 94
  Democratic principles incorporated in the New Theology. Religion
      must be made acceptable "to the masses," [13]		 97
  Every man a Saviour. "No stopping-place between sinner and
      Saviour,"		 99
  New Theology aims at the "Consolidation of all Human Interests, 101
  New Theology identified with Socialism. "The Religious Articulation
      of the Great Social Movement,		 102
  "New Theology is the Religion of Science," 104
  New Theology in various Religious Denominations, 105
  Mr. Campbell and Mr. Blatchford, 108
 
THE NEW THEOLOGY OF NEW ENGLAND, 110
  Mr. Gordon on "The Collapse of the New England Theology," 110
  Character of the New England Theology, 114
  Reasons why it "collapsed," 119
  Beneath the "best religious consciousness" of the time, 121
  The teaching of the Bible "outgrown in knowledge and in ethical
      conceptions,"		 121
  The "collapse" of Bible doctrine in the times of King Ahab, 123
  The "collapse" of the doctrine of Christ in His own day, 124
  "Bondage to a book." Unitarian-Trinitarianism, 125
 
NEW THEOLOGY IN NEW ENGLAND: "Humanism" our
            "greatest word," [14]		 127
  Man's essential "nature," 128
  God's character to be learned by study of "man s world," 131
  The two voices that speak out of the realm of the unseen, 134
  "Looking for the Genius," 135
 
"MODERNISM" or ADVANCED THEOLOGY IN THE CHURCH OF
            ROME: A remarkable movement,		 136
  "The Programme of Modernism." Its initial assumption that the old
      "bases of faith have proved themselves rotten beyond cure,"		 141
  If the Foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
      (Ps. xi. 3),		 142
  Modernism in relation to "Higher Criticism;" and Modern Science 143
  Modernism; its denial of Christ, 145
  Rejects miracles and prophecy because they offend "the modern
      mind,"		 147
  Positive doctrines of Modernism. Its aim to establish in the Church
      of Rome the Standards and Ideals of the "Modern World," and
      to realize the "dream of a Great Unification,		 148
  Modernism undertakes to bring the "religious experience of
      Christianity into line with the data of contemporary science
      and philosophy," [15]		 151
"THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL ON MODERNISM," 153
  A withering denunciation. The Modernists are enemies of the
      Cross of Christ," who "assail the faith" by arts entirely new
      and "full of deceit,"		 154
  The Pope's description of the methods of the Modernists. Their
      "boundless effrontery" and "domineering overbearance." The
      doctrine of Humanism or "the identity of man with God."
      Their system destructive of "all Religion." Modernism defined
      by "Infallible Authority" as the "Synthesis of all Heresies,"		 156
 
THE "COMING CATHOLICISM": foreseen by Rev. Newman
            Smythe,		 160
  The "passing of Protestantism"; signs of disintegration and "of
      the passing of the Protestant, Age of History,"		 162
  Mr. C. H. Aked and the "Salvation of Christianity," 163
  Modernism approved and hailed as a "Mediating" Movement. Its
      mission the "Reconciliation of the Church with Modern
      Thought,"		 165
  A "World of Titanic Industrial Forces" demands a religion suited
      to it,		 166
  "A new religious order" arising, the "greatest that the world has
      known," drawn [16] from all nations and classes and from
      "all Churches,		 167
  The energising principle of this great Movement said to be the
      vitalising and profound faith that "God is in Man," that the Divine is present in the thoughts of men,		 169
  Progressive Catholics "in the same stream" with other advanced
      theologians,		 170
  The old prophets delivered their messages in the Name of the
      Lord. The modern prophets who discredit the former, give no
      authority for their messages nor any reason why they should
      be heeded,		 170
  Is Modern Civilisation characterised by "the love of the truth," or
      by failure to receive the love of the truth?		 173
  Modernism laying "New Foundations," 175
  The present Pope a "Parenthesis," 176
  Characteristics of Dr. Smythe's "Coming Catholicism," 177
  The unification of mankind promoted by "Internationalism"--that
      is, the "Federation of Industrial Interests throughout the
      World," which calls for a corresponding religious Federation,		 178
  What the Religion of Humanity has to offer to the individual man.
      The contrast with Christianity,		 180
  A Gigantic Deception, [17] 182
 
SPIRITISM: 182
  Prophecy foretells a rise of Spiritism in the "latter times,"
      characterised by direct teachings of evil spirits or demons. "Forbidding to Marry,"		 184
  Remarkable change of attitude on the part of Physical Science
      towards Spiritism,		 185
  Spiritistic Seances conducted by well-known men of science, 187
  Efforts to communicate with departed spirits of Messrs. Myers and
      Hodgson. A remarkable "Report." Cryptic Messages from the
      "Unseen." Scientists deceived,		 187
  Spiritism is supplying the supernatural elements required to
      complete the Religion of Humanity,		 192
  Spiritism extending its influence in the sphere of professing
      Christianity,		 193
  An alleged communication from John and Charles Wesley. "New
      Theology" taught by the Spirits,		 194
  Displaced and substituted Personality an experience of Spiritism,
      and also of Hypnotism, "Suggestive Therapeutics," etc.,		 196
  Displaced Personality in gatherings of Christians seeking a new
      "experience,"		 198
  Impairing the Authority of the Bible 200
  A Strange Fellowship, [18] 201
 
SECTION III.
DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIALISM
  Human activities in the Economic Field. Pronounced Characteristics
      of the existing Economic Order of Society,		 202
  Business taking on a religious guise, 203
  Unequal distribution of the rapidly accumulating wealth. Bulk of the
      increase goes to the non-producers,		 206
  "Panics" and "Business Depressions," 209
  The Socialistic explanation of these economic phenomena, 210
  The problem of the unemployed, 214
  Mankind separating into two classes, one characterised by having
      property, and the other by not having it,		 215
 
SOCIALISM: 216
  Importance of the Social Problem. Modern Social conditions from
      the standpoint of a moderate Socialist. Economic Contrasts,		 216
  The Spread of Socialistic Principles, 222
  Sympathy and Co-operation of the Clergy, 223
  Socialism the combination of the Temporal and Religious Interests
      of Mankind. Fulfils all the main features of the System of
      Prophecy,		 224
  Socialism permeating the professing Church, 225
  Mr. Arnold White on the future of Religion; a dubious and dismal
      prospect, [19]		 227
 
CAPITALISM, PLUTOCRACY IN ITS FINAL STAGE: 229
  The trend of Capitalism like that of Socialism is towards producing
      a single Vast Monopoly,		 230
  "The Trust of Trusts," 231
  "The Birth of the Superman," 234
  "Mr. H. G. Wells' Type of Socialism," 237
  Awaiting the "Intelligent Collective Mind," 238
  Power divorced from Wisdom, 242
  The "Good Will in Man," 243
  Mr. A. Graham Bell on the Era of Monopoly, 245
  The question of the hour, "What shall we do with the Trusts?" or
      "What shall they do with us?		 246
 
CAPITALISM.--Its Defensive Measures, 247
  The increasing Complexity of the Industrial System creates an
      imperative demand for "Genius of a New Order,"		 248
  The "Higher Education" devoting itself to the development of a new
      type of genius, to wit, the "Social Economist,"		 249
  Man's three great problems: the appropriation of natural forces; the
      organisation of industry; the spiritual direction of human affairs.
      The last now being faced,		 251
 
THE PREDICTED END OF CAPITALISM: 253
  The heaping up of treasure "in the last days," [20] 254
  The Plutocratic Class "Heaping up Treasure," 255
  The Cry of the Labourer, 260
  Living in pleasure and luxuriating in the earth, 262
  "Be patient, therefore, brethren, till the Coming of the Lord," 264
 
THE RELIGIOUS ASPECT OF SOCIALISM: 264
  The foundation doctrine of Socialism is essentially religious in
      character,		 265
  Worship of "Humanity" a necessary element of Socialism, 265
  The Creed of the "Religion of Humanity," 267
 
SOCIALISM AND MARRIAGE: 269
  "Doctrines of demons, forbidding to marry," 271
  The assault upon the institution of marriage, 271
  Factors operating at the present time to overthrow the institution of
      marriage,		 273
 
ZIONISM: 277
  The rise and growth of Zionism The awakening of the "national"
      Hebrew consciousness,		 278
  The opportunity of Jewish financiers, 278
  A great Creditor Nation The Money Trust. Zionism not a "Religious
      Revival," [21]		 282
 
SECTION IV.
LATTER-DAY IDOLS
  The "Desolator" who is to come "on the wing of abominations," 283
  Warnings in Scripture against idolatry, 283
  The "modern man" an idolater, 285
  Idolatry defined, 287
  The imagination of man and his images, 291
 
THE METHOD OF IDOL-MAKING: 292
  Man the maker of the gods to which he looks to do for him what he
      cannot do for himself,		 293
"THE GODS MANY" OF THE MODERN MAN: 298
  Physical agencies expected to work spiritual results, 299
 
"SCIENCE": 303
  The theological use made of the abstraction called "Science," 303
  "Science" as a worker of miracles and a revealer of truth, 305
  "Science" incapable of effecting spiritual results or imparting
      spiritual information,		 308
  "Science" as an authority in opposition to the teachings of Scripture, 309
  "Philosophy." The origin, of stone-axes, 314
  "Science" and Faith, [22] 316
  "Science" an imaginary thing, i. e. an Idol, 317
  No depository for the teachings of Science, 318
  The Physical Sciences, 318
 
ASTRONOMY. The sphere of Astronomical Science. Its principal
            Achievements, destitute of spiritual value and significance. The
            uniformity of nature Stellar distances and dimensions The orbit
            of an invisible satellite. But no information about the "Bright
            and Morning Star,"		 319
 
CHEMISTRY: 323
  The atomic theory Chemical theories afford no foundations for a
      New Theology,		 324
  Chemistry transforms many substances but cannot change human
      nature or cleanse the heart from sin,		 325
 
GEOLOGY: 326
  A young Science with the frailties of youth, 326
  Nothing among the facts and guesses of Geology that has a spiritual
      value. Many geological evidences of the "power of death," but
      no information touching the resurrection of the dead,		 327
 
A QUEST FOR "THE TEACHINGS OF SCIENCE" BY AN ANXIOUS
            SOUL:		 328
  The "State of Science." Men and Books, [23] 329
  Sir Oliver Lodge on "Faith allied with Science," 331
  "Science" merely a name under which Man worships himself, 332
 
EVOLUTION: 333
  A mighty God with many worshippers. Evolution and Humanism, 334
  Forms of worship under Humanism. What will they be? 335
  Worship must be addressed to a "Personality," 338
 
MONEY: 339
  The Unrighteous Mammon. The almost universal tendency to make
      money a god in trusting it, and setting the affections on it,		 340
  The Image of Gold, 342
 
ULTIMATE INTELLECTUALISM. The Tendency of the Higher
            Education,		 344
  The Harvard "Class Poem": the Refined Blasphemy of Humanism,
      [24]		 347
 
CONCLUSION
  An appeal to the English-speaking Nations to recall the blessings
      they have received of God,		 354
  The greatest National Apostasy of all history, 355
  "Come out of her 'My People,'" [25] 359

 

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