Telegram-herald., 1891-11-02

rhr protkzms yelative TO the aetuai
he of Jssas OF gaxareth, but what
sYe- Diet aifs they May alter as 10 the
elen.ears OF that life, there need be no
change La our faith in mass divinity or
| sEe Ia-neiple of salvati through hu-
man aeiIsainess whieh the Christ ideal
Aas taught
The sext artieie explains itself.
I'VE beliesethat good aud evil inevi-
| tally carry their own recon- mpense, no
good thing being failure, and no evil
| th{2g kaeeess, that heavea and hell
are states OF bei.ss; that no esli can
befali the good maa In either ine or
deaAi; that all things work together
| for the victory of good
Notice how utterly the idea of re-
wards and panishments has been elm
mated from this statement hope
that it is wholly SO from or- thoughts.
The good thing Is good in itself. no
matter what result may come from
| il. Heaven and bell are conditions OF
| our souls There can he NO anxiety
| for Us as 20 where we shall arbitrarily
b. put in any future world. bee ause
| we know that the only thing that
| can make any difference 10 US Ii what
"a allow 10 grow up within ourselves
\ We know that no payements ot gold
| and no diadems can make a heaven Tor
US II our hearts are foul or false, AID
| that the clean soul and the true heart
can trust itself with perfect calm TO
anything that the universe may have
In store Tor il. The pure In heatt Will
see God and be in heaven today, to-
morrow and AT all times, and nothing
evil can befall IL.
| This passage also express . that high
est trus; ci all: faith in the ultimate
victory of the good. l hope that IL is
really the faith held by most o. us.
but lear however that IL is something
that we must grow into rather than
something that we hold unflinchingly
row. II we really believed that no
| good was failure. and no evil sue
! cess, and always held that in mind we
SHOULD have such n church here In a
little while as would be the very pow
or OF God unto salvation in this CON-
malnity. Oh, TO really believe in the
infinite supremacy OF Good, and TO al
ways remember when we are thinking
OF the wise thing to do; OF the most,
expedient method, that there Is no
wisdom, that there is no expediency,
but simplicity, but allegicnce to ideals.
People bound together by such n faith
would have all the laws OF the universe
working with them, would have all
the power Of the Infinite inspiring
| them.
8. 1--WE believe that we ought to join
hands and make the good things better
and the worst good, counting nothing
good for self that il rot good for ALL.
1 ic. fxo <Snlo ~ ~
faith that leads us to have church
at all. Believing In the progress OF
truth and righteousness would be OF
| little practical value II ii did not lead
definitely mt work to help us spread
this abroad in the land AS long as
there Ia n good and a lesser good in
the world and as long as human beings
have the power to make the good
things better and the worst good. just
so long will true manhood and woman
hood prompt US to try to do our part
but we cannot do the best work alone.
1t is work done for Others for the COM
mon need that will move the world.
We arc all part OF the great unit.
and the laws that govern progress do
not apparently intend that we shall
forget this. The great need of the pres
cnt time, indeed OF all times. is the
serlse OF brotherhood and everything
that men and women unite for from
disinterested motives and for high aims
helps greatly to make them feel that
they are really one family. The great
question for us will be how to carry
out this article OF our faith In the
world OF practical duty; how we can
work TO make the good things better
and the worst good:" and we can only
succeed i'm the fullest measure when
each and all OF us are alert to find the
place where we are most needed. the
cause that we can help. the souls that
we can rescue, the darkened lives that
we can brighten.
| o. 1--WE believe that this self-forget-
ting, loyal life awakes in man the sense
OF union, here and now, with things
eternal-the sense OF deathlcssness; and
this sense is to us an earnest OF a life
to come"
1 feel grateful to the one who thus
expressed for us this faith in immort al
ity. In a few words he has succeeded
in stating a far-reaching and profound
philosophy. This trust IN the lie to
come, should be founded on mi:.acle
or sign or wonder, hut upon that sense
OF deathlcssness that is awakened in
man by loyalty to duty. A future ,life
that would be only prolonged exist
enSe would mean little but trust
in the infinite future, based upon the
consciousness OF the moral destiny be-
fore us Is Of noble, glorious worth. The
roof OF Immortality that is Of most
weight is that which Is found IN
ones own nature when IL has become
allied to that Righteousness that IL
eternal, and knows that it Is immortal
because Of the unending presciousness
Of moral good.
| And now we reach the last point In
this Creedo: Theism. '.We reached it,
/ say but has IL not been in all that
has gone before. Has not our belief
ia authority, in the divine revelation
through man, in the invincible quality
OF the good, our faith I'm service and
our t-ual for immor al b ing, have they
not all been really based upon tie
thought of God, which Is stated Ia
this last paragraph: 10. I'VE worship
Ono<n-All.-that life whence sun aid
stars derive their orbits aud the soul
Of man it's 0ught-that Light which
lightens every man thai, eometh into
the world. giving US power TO become
the sons OF God, that Love with whom
our souls commune This one we nan
the Eternal God. our Father
This statement Of Theism is one In
which l specially rejoice. am glad
that someone succceded in expressing
the thought ia terms so close to our
conscious life. Ii IL easy to tloemati,e
about God N metaphysics. but some
how most people feel that the results