The Progress., 1893-02-11

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/ dogmas or tradition, there are some
things that cannot he done. You cannot
make man believe i'll his heart that
wrong is right. that black is white that
/ good is evil \ faith that simply means
/ the process of swallowing that which
/ we cannot understand is not faith.
/ That is what much of the religion that
/ is TO perish has meant. We are coming
! back to that great light God has gwen,
of which Whittier sang so beautifully
/ just before he died:
To him. from wandering long and wild,
/ come an OveTwearied child,
In cool and shade his peace to find,
Like devfal ttlin: on my mind:
Assured that all l know is best
And humbly trusting for the rest;
/ turn from foncy's cloud built scheme,
Dark creed and luournful eastern dream
or power, imIersonal and cold,
Controlling all itself controlled,
Maker and slave of iron laws,
Alike the subject and the cause;
From vain philOsopbies that try
The scyenfCld Gates of mystery,
And. baffied ever babbe stili,
Word prOdigal, OF fate and will;
From Nature, and her nockery, Art,
And book and speech of men apart,
To the stU iCitHtsS iI ny hodrt.
With reverence waiting 70 behold
lis AVIATOR of love unfold.
The Eternal B-luty new and old.
believe that the religion of the future
will come, with the spirit of the great
/ poet. more and more back until it is har-
monized with that spirit within that
gave its peace and its light and It's love
in benediction 10 him and his life.
TRUE RELIGION uUMANITARIAy.
Then said that the religion of the
| future is to be humanitarian. The son
of Man" was Jesus. 1t 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 centered there, for
Paul said, You may have hope-yes.
may give away your goods and have
prophecy and all the Christian graces-
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 mem
bers, but the religion that has for its
primary object the salvation of man as
a whole. Such viii 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 hui
manity is intrinsically divine. Man is
worth saving. Jesus saw his image di-
vine even in the thief on the cross, and
came down to die for him. In the COM
mune III 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, they came across one
day small band of armed insurgents
among whom was a boy scarcely 10
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
Inc, sirY' The colonel said: "Yes, my
boy, you were taken with arms in your
hands; you will be shot with the rest"
Said the boy: well, sir, l have mother
in such a street; she is a nurse there; she
will be waiting for me and worried if /
don't come home all day. want 10 go
and tell her, and | have n watch want
to give her. If you will let me off, will
come back to be shot The colonel
said, Your cheek interests me- Your
impudence has saved you Young man.
you can 60"
Then the colonel went on with his
deadly work and forgot all about the
boy. But when he was seated in his
tent suddenly the little fellow appeared
at the door and stepping inside said, II
am ready, sir" The colonel was thun-
derstruck. He seized sim by the ears
and thrust him out of the tent, exclaim-
ing, go back to your mother, you
young brigandr Then as he returned
to his seat he muttered. looking toward
party of condemned insurgents, mis-
cradle scoundrels So you. too. have
your heroesp
Those divine elements run all through
the race, woven and interwoyen into the
very warp and woof of mans being. So
Jesus was the Son of Man and came to
die for man as man, that man might be
saved.