Divinity Concealed in Man
A RECENT issue of the New York Staats Zeitung contains an article on “Sects and Schisms in Russia,” contributed by Dr. A. Serbin. Among the various religious sects described is one of which it is stated:— The members of another sect, the Christs, have discovered that every member is God, and they call themselves the Sons of God. Divinity is concealed in every man, so reads their fundamental tenet, and the chief ceremony is mutual adoration. “Divinity concealed in every man,”—this is the same discovery that has of late been made by many in lands favored with a higher degree of culture and civilization. But in these simple-minded Russians the doctrine has had free course to blossom and bear its natural fruit, and the result is that among them “the chief ceremony is mutual adoration.” We must again record our opposition to this idea of looking within the human to find divinity.