The Mystery of the Trinity.

It is pitiable to hear a clergyman of to-day trying to explain the Trinity; constantly repeating "that it is a mystery of mysteries; that he doesn't understand it; that the wisdom of his church has decreed it; that by no force of intellectual process can a man understand it." My page 20 answer is: "Away with such mystery, for there is none." That God has given us reason and intellect to inquire into all His laws, and He wishes us to do so. That there cannot he three persons in one, and the Holy Spirit is not a person. There consequently is no Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, any more than the ancient Osiris, Isis and Horus, or any of the Asiatic Trinities. That the wise men of his Church are no better than the wise Mohammedans, Confucians or Buddhists, all of whom blundered. The evils of our Theological Colleges are fully shown now in the pulpit, and the congregations would do well to stop their clergy trying to explain their foolish dogmas. That the Athanasian Creed being condemned, they are now preaching another of the Nicene Creeds—the one as bad as the other. That our minds are are not absolutely finite, but part of the infinite mind of God. That the field of salvation and good work is boundless, if they only drop their mysteries and the whole Book of Matthew, and preach God's goodness, joy and happiness to us.