The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-26

small importance. We remember that
love leads Gods children home. Some may
wander through intricate ways, while
others divining Gods purpose with clearer
perceptions, may follow the straight smooth
pathway, and all guided by love, will reach
the haven of love at last.
ROSE HARTwICK THORPE.
You ask me my religions views:
Sometimes | think there is God; some
times think otherwise. | come of pure
Quaker stock, an unbroken line for 200
years or more, and | am of the faith, but, l
say, as have said, sometimes | believe and
at other times, when / see the triumph of
evil over good in this world, doubt if there
is God i'll heaven.
CANINE E. DICKINSON"
"What demandl My religious views!
Goodness! don't know them myself-l'm
trying to fix them somewhere, on some
thing. The very best | can do for you is
this. l am a deeply religious woman,
though YOU may not suspect it, bat have
as yet ound no creed broad enough for me.
1 attend, as you know, the New church, but
do not belong there. l find it the lea t
Objectionable of the ,ects, but do not be-
lieve in sects. | am the farthest removed
from materialism-I think, IN fact / know
i incline to mysticism-Will that do? l
can't do better.
OLIVER hOhNE MLLlhR,
There is nothingin my simple faith that
| would not gladly tell to anyone who
would care to know | think the Apostles
creed in all that it says and in all that it
implies-that is to say, taken in its full
mes; and in its complete mys ical sense--in
this | think | find my faith entirely ex-
pressed, With all my heart ana soul and mind
and strength.
II believe in God as the supreme creator
of all things; believe in his beloved son
Jesus Chri, t, as our teacher, redeemer il we
will be redeemed. do not think That the
mere mental assent of faith goes very far,
or at least, it is but the initial step. TO
enter Harvard university / SHOULD believe
in the helpful power of its preSi lent and
professors, but beyond this | should expect
to believe in my own application and
energy; so t seems to me spiritual advance
ment. The belief in Jesus is That couii-
ton which renders it possible for HIM to
help me. But in the truest and fullest sen Q
[ believe at eacl soul must work out its
own salvation; thai immortality Is to some
extent an achievement: that some are more
immortal than others. | believe James
Freeman Clarke, for instance, entered mo
a vaster Immortality at his death, than u
| criminal. or even an honest. but very
| crude and ignorant man. l believe in
what perhaps you will permit me to cal
spiritual spiritualism; the probability of
mental commuL ication between the EN-
bodied and dsembodied in the way of silent
influence an! di ection; communication
recognized only by the spirit, and therefore
not de nonstre6le by material proof |
think the power TO receive this is largely
temper amental, and while some may be
fully conscious of such aid and companion
ship, others cannot recognize it at all and
therefore receive little if any Of such spir-
itual aid.
II have been member of the Episcopal
church since early girlhood and am now a
communicate of Trinity church. in Boston,
| of which Rev. Phillips Brooks, d. D., is the
rector.
"With all this belief, l find much in
theosophy that l intuitively accept, as
mystic truth, and l am profoundly it,
| terested in many phases of its presenta-
| tions.
II believe the event we call death is far
less of change than has been, in older
ages, believed. To me it seems but tho
opening of door-a transition-and per-
haps it is but one of many successive changes
in the periods of immortal life. believe
we must achieve an Immortality now and
here, that we must be immortal now, by
living spiritually, and not only materially,
| that we must carry the ideal christian
spirit into the actual daily life. and show
our faith in God, our love for Christ, mot
| only with our lips but in four HveS-ye;,
by giving up ourselves to thy service and
by walking before thee in righteousness and
pureness Of life,' and | believe we can
| give ourselves to his service just as
| truly in every ordinary vocation as could
be done by the purely contemplative life,
| to which some individuals are certainly
/ called.
Il deeply believe in the great need of per-
sonal holiness, and believe it possible for
every human soul to attain it.
LILLIAN WHITING"
The life of God in the soul of man is tho
only life, and all my being sets toward it
as the rivers toward the sea. Celestial
things grow dearer to me; tie love of Christ
is steadfast in my soul; the habitudes OF
disciple sits more easily upon me; tender
ness towards humanity and the lower
orders of being increases with the years. |
am strictly loyal and orthodox Methodist,
but find great good in all religions, and in
the writings of those lofty and beautiful
moralsts who are building better than they
| know, and all of whose precepts blossom
from the rich soil of the New Testament.
FRANCES WILLARD
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