t a mind can do while it is
in its own ignorance upon the subject of what it takes to constitute
personality, and while it is also surrounded with nothing but the darkness
of the dark ages, which has been the legitimate accompaniment of "the
Catholic and Protestant _fatal mistake_," but it is not the best that an
intelligent mind, clothed with the sunlight of the gospel of Christ, and
intelligently educated upon the subject of _personality_ can do. _No!_ The
intelligently informed mind can stand upon the everlasting bed-rock of
truth, which has been raised to the highest mountain top of Christian
thought by the pure, unadulterated teachings of the Savior of men, which
lie behind the fifteen hundred years of jargon upon the questions of
Trinitarian and Unitarian "_isms_."

"God is a spirit." That settles the question of "person" with every well
instructed Christian mind. "What man knoweth the things of a man save the
spirit of man which is in him; even so the things of God knoweth no man
but the Spirit of God." The Spirit of God is the _Supreme intelligence_.
And, being such, he is the _Supreme person_, for where there is
_intelligence_ there is person. The attributes of personality belong to
intelligence, and they belong to nothing else. If you have an
_intelligent_ essence, it is, of a logical and scientific necessity, a
person. Let some Pantheistic "wiseacre" grapple with this thought.

The fatal mistakes are not all confined to Catholics and Protestants;
Pantheists and Scientists have made full as many mistakes. The great
mistake upon the subject of the Divine existence, which Scientists and
Pantheists have made, is the conclusion that person is simply and
necessarily _material_, or animal existence. So they say, if God is a
person he must be a great big _almighty_ man, having great arms and legs,
etc. I have the first Atheist or Pantheist to meet in conversation that
understands the truth of science in reference to this question of
_person_.

It is claimed that a Monotheistic Pantheism, that is, the idea of _one
essence_, not person, but _essence_, is to _unite_, or make one, the whole
human family upon the scientific (sciolistic) base that man himself is one
grand part of the grand all-pervading, impersonal essence.

Religions have their practical results, and, consequently, bearings upon
human society. The Monotheistic idea, which, it is claimed, is to equalize
all beings and things throughout this vast univers