The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-16

make man believe IN taS nsAEs t1tAs
wrons Is night. that black Is white. thas
god Is evil. 4 faith that simply means
the process Of swallowing that which
we cannot understand is not faitn-
That l. what rsuch 81 the religion that
Is 10 perish has meant. We arc coming
hack "a that great light God has gwen.
Of which Whittier sang 80 beautifully
Just before he died:
To ALTA. frur, wandering long and Wild.
eosne an syerwpArted child.
in cool aE a shade hts peace % fnd-
Like avw .Ell s~fslins ca my mind:
Assured .ha; ali know Is best
And huznaiy trusting for the rrsf.
turn firm fancy's cloud built scheme.
Dark erred and rncuraful eastern dream
OF power. inT-r~snKl and cold.
Controlling all. itself controlled.
Maker and slave uf iron laws.
Alike the subject and the cause;
From vain philosophers that try
The srvrafuld gates OF mystery,
And. ha:1sed ever. habhle still.
Word pr disAl. Of fate and VIII:
Prom Mature. and her moekery. All,
And book and sIscech Of men apart,
To the "a ar3faeSS tri my heart.
With rcyereIce waiting 10 behold
His AVIATOR Of love unfold,
The Eternal Beauty new and old.
believe that the religion OF the future
will come. with the spirit Of the great
poet, more and more back until il is har-
monized with that spirit within that
gave its peace and its light and its love
in benediction TO him and his life.
TRUE RELIGION HUMANITARIAN.
Then said that the r.ligion of the
future is To be humanitarian. The Son
of Man" was Jesus. IL was the one name
that was on his lips from day to day
the "Son of Man" | believe that the
central idea of the teachings of the great
apostle Paul likewise conferred there, for
Paul said. You may have hope-yes,
may give away your goods and have
prophecy and all the Christian greces-
and yet If YOU have not love you are
nothing" The successful church of to-
day will be the church that saves man
not tries to save its individual men,
bers, but the religion that has for its
primary object the salvation Of man as
whole. Such will be the religion of
the future. The trouble in the past has
been we have looked far forward to
heaven and hell, but have overlooked the
life that now is. The religion of the
future must be the religion that is based
on the judgment in Matthew XIV. The
truest worship of God is the salvation of
man. The true service of man Is the
true worship of God.
Normal humanity is divine, and sin
is unnatural. AS our religion becomes
more and more the religion of the Son
of Man we will believe it, and that hu-
mmnity is intrinsically divine. Man is
worth saving. Jesus saw his image d.
vine even in the thief ON the cross. and
came down to die for him. In the COM
mune in Paris in that awful day of blood
and cruelty when the troops of the re-
public had mastered the commune and
received orders to execute without trial
or mercy every insurgent found with
arms on his body, theX came across one
day small band Of armed insurgents
among whom was boy scarcely Is
years of age, still in short trousers.
They swept him in and engulfed him.
But as they went along the boy broke
away, and placing himself in front Of
the colonel said, 'You are going to kill
me, sir?' The colonel said: eyes, nv
boy, you were taken with arms in your
hands; you will be shot with the rest"
Said the boy: well, sir, I have mother
IN such street; she is a nurse there; she
will be waiting for me and worried if I
ion't come home all day. I want to go
md tell her. and l have a watch want
20 give her. If you will let me off, will
come back to be shot The colonel
said, Your cheek interests me. Your
mpudence has saved you. Young man,
you can 60"
Then the colonel went ON with his
leadly work and forgot all about the
boy. But when he was seated in his
ent suddenly the little fellow appeared
1t the door and stepping inside said, 81
Inn ready, sir" The colonel was thun-
ierstruck. He seized him by the ears
md thrust him out of the tent, excIaim-
ng, $50 back to your mother, You
7oung brigandr' Then as he returned
% his seat he muttered, looking toward
! party of condemned insurgents, "Mis-
.rable scoundrels! So you. too, have
rour heroesr'
Those divine elements run all through
he race, woven and interviewer into the
very warp and wool of mans being. So |
Jesus was the Son of Man and came to
lie for man as man, that man might be
aved.