The Washington times., 1894-04-01

not any dogma about the body. 1t afIlrms the
persistence Of life and the immortality OF good
ness
When the right word is spoken to any heart
it matters little who speaks it, for to that
heart it comes direct from the great heart OF
the Master.
That my Easter experiences might be well
rounded, spent the evening In the hall OF
our friends and workers of the Salvation
Army. One is not compelled to listen, and if
compelled to hear some expounding OF the
thoughts of the Master of the universe that
seem to have suffered the crude limitations OF
the human understanding. still one sees and
hears band of faithful, self-sacrifcing
workers in the Masters vineyard, as they
have been taught SO they work and teach,
and in this sense we may all do well to do
likewise.
The mighty echoes of the Moody and
Sankey giant chorus have died away, but
here, while the songs are simple. the execu-
ton less satisfactory, the same gospel is
preached. Well, who shall say how the word
of God may come to any consciousness? The
infinite differentiations OF consciousness in
man may require all these different methods
and various interpretations. IL all the gov
ernng laws of the universe are but the IN
finite effect of vibratory force, then the true
and only way to the Individual mind Is
through vibratory affinity, something that
can tone to the chord Of that consciousness,
be it high or low. But the melody must be
that old, and ever new. one OF love and
charity.
1.-The religious thought OF the world is in
condition of ferment, which signifies the
new lifc the new body that is to take form.
The significance OF the warning sounded by
Emerson forty years ago is now apparent:
Learn 10 forget your beliefs
And keep your reverence.
If heretofore man has tried to quiet his
fears and his conscience with belief-and
could find no better ground for his belief than
by looking backward-if he has no further
evidence of his own soul than the history of
other souls, he may well stand stoutly Oh the
defense. for the live thought OF the world is
taking testimony.
The growth of the scientific temper is no.
where more clearly traced than in the tran
sition from the religion of the Reformation TO
the religion of the twentieth century. The
soul of the Reformation lay in the appeal from
| the church to the Bible. The life OF the New
theological movement is in the appeal from
the Bible to God. II is not secondhand
/ God Il God who passed over the earth once
while the centuries were young and then
passed out into space again. The appeal Is
10 God with US, lmmanual. The old idea that
ancient literature consists OF riddles which 1t
is the business OF modern literature to solve
has forever passed away. The idea that our
salvation consists in the fact that long ago
other men have seen and known God have
also passed away.
Professionalism pushed the priest away from
his mediatorial Office of bringing together the
soul of man and the soul OF God. but it did
not stop there. 1t was not content with leav-
ing man and God together; it substituted q
book The biblialator has forgotten God and
apo.heosized book.
Dogmatists. like Louis XVIth. speak
mildly OF Il ''revot," while the empire of the
religious world is already in the throes of
revolution" God in His universe and in
some way is using all the intellectual as well
as material forces to do His will. y"
Science and religion have already plighted
their troth and are to be welded into
an indissoluble union, and p new and
broader wisdom shall characterize their
progeny. As Edison has discovered the
power of electrical induction and takes
message of a wire while travelling
thirty miles an hour in closed
carriage running parallel to that wire. so
science, faith, and aspiration will discover
that the man we see is only the carriage for
an immortal passenger; that when the pas
senger learns the proper use Of his own in
duction COIL of brain and nerves. when the
sensitive finger of the soul is on the key,
messages will be duly received from the great
center of all Wisdom that shall be exactly
fitted TO his necessities. In the meantime the
watchword is forward, the field of conquest,
in spiritual as in intellectual life. is in the
front, not in the rear. VETERAN.