Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1892-01-31

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much the worse. then, for the Bible
1--WE are slowly but surely coming to
accept the grand central truth that God
is love and God is light, and in him is
10 darkness at all; that men will be
weighed by their character and not by
their opinion. Why, even the light that
is beginning to CLEAN on us touching
the transmitted troubles and depravities
of our human nature is going to make
us more pitiful and tender toward those
who are their victims, as Jesus was to
the publicans and harlots.
Education is exerting most whole
some influence. | never have any trou-
Bile among men and women who are
educated in broad and practical sense,
and think the whole tendency of what
one might call our religious education
takes that trend now. Education, how
ever, in the special dogma of church
and its system makes men narrower and
more bigoted. The bright and cheer
full aspect is this, that all the great pop
ular channels Of education which reach
the people far and wide are Of the broad
or and finer sort. l never saw a great
magazine or sound public journal of any
kind that does not possess this charac-
teristic. The novel, which is 30 popu-
lar in our time, is also of that quality,
broad in its sympathies, calculated to
reach the hearts finest tissues and make
US feel the touch of humanity.
"A few years ago, being in Luzerne
in Switzerland, / saw notice that there
was going to be a Protestant service in
a Catholic church on Sunday. Iattend-
ed and found that the service was con-
Quoted by a Presbyterian minister from
Greenock, in Scotland. The sermon was
on the example of Christ and what it
was to follow Christ. Touching mira
cles, he said the age of miracles has not
passed and gone, but is still in full
force. Miracles continue to heal the
sick, give sight to the blind, feet to the
lame and strength to the palsied in the
hospitals. These miracles are just as
great and divine in their way as any
the world ever saw.
when the discourse was finished /
went up to the minister and, taking his
hand, said, Il have also a miracle to re-
port-a Presbyterian service in Roman
Catholic church and sermon fair and
true to a confirmed hereto That is the
way it is going. Our thinking is broad
or, our sympathy for each other is
broader and we all look forward to the
time when there shall be one Lord, one
faith and one baptism, and all the
churches and all the sects and all the
men and women within them, and vast
numbers outside them, will be branches
of the living vine.
"One church now says, you must be-
lieve in me as the true branch, because
/ am the oldest; another, you must be-
lieve III me bseaue sa ehe newest; a
third, you must beSbsve in me beeswse /
am nearest tho wafer; q fourth, beosuse
am faTthest away. One says, yoS must
believe IN me because | am most in the
shadow; another, believe in me because
am in the sun. One says, believe in
me because every twig ON this branch
of mine is trained up on the ecclesias-
teal trelliswork, and another, because
every twig is left to find its own twining
in its own fashion. There is only one
great truth TO tell about them all-what
sort of fruit do you bear, and how does
that compare with the fruit borne by
the other branches? The fruits Of the
spirit, the apostle says, are love, joy,
peace, long suffering, gentleness, pa
tience, goodness"
''In general way, doctor, don't you
think the world is growing nobler and
better%
Surely, surely" was the reply, in
that earnest tone which men use when
they leave no doubt to be implied, "al
though we are too close to the clash and
clang of things to realize the full sig
nifcance of the fact. 1t is well illus
trated, however, by old John Evelyn,
who said that when he was in Holland
it was some time in the Seventeenth
century-he went up into the bell cham
Der Of great cathedral and was sorely
hurt by the noise of the bells, but when
he went away mile or two and heard
ringing their soft, sweet notes, the very
air seemed rich in harmony. There was
no discord then-no
Sweet bells tangled, out of tune and harsh.
"And this is what we should all try to
do now and then.
"Some time ago | received letter
from a friend in England, whose mother
had just died at a very great age. All
her life she had lived in quiet nook
among the Yorkshire moors, and my
friend wrote that during her last years
she was forever thanking God that the
world had grown so much better since
she could remember. She had watched
it with wise eyes, living in quiet place,
and she had but one story to tell when
the end drew near of the betterment of
all things:
Goods in his heaven
"'All's right with the world
"When we are right in it and believe
in him and do his work."