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and somewhat terrifying,while the object pre-
sented for adoration, on which all love was
lavished,wastheSon,self-sacrificed,redeeming,
surrenderingpowerto pity-afigurethatdrew
allhearts, thatsatisfiedall aspirations,theMan
divine enough for worship, the God human
enoughforlove.
Amongourselves,uprisingfromtheUnitarian
schoolofChristians,thereisasomewhatcurious
butmostinstructivesect,thatofmodernTheism,
representedbyTheodoreParker,FrancisNew-
man, Frances Power Cobbe, and Charles
Voysey. These assert and worship "the
Father," purging away from that conception
all that is harsh, unlovely, stern, in the view
of popularChristianity,adorningitwith allthe
heart-compelling attributes of the perfect man,
turning, in fact, the second Person of the
orthodox Trinity into the first, and investing
'
thisnowwhollydivine Figurewith all thefar-
reaching qualities of deity. The Trinity dis-
appears, the Unmanifested is ignored, and a
vast superhuman personal God is regarded as
at once the Father of spirits and the all-
sustaining, self-existent Life, beyond whom,
embracingandpervadingall,naughtelse exists.
He is at once the "One without a second,
and the personal Lover and Friend of man.
