The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-23


The concluding remark in view of all
this is as follows:
The words OF God by which men must
live are to be distributed by those who
shall receive them, wherever there IS
need OF them.
Where are they needed? First by us
all in our homes, You cannot live at
home, not at least the best possible
home-life, by bread alone. You need
words of God to hallow, to sweeten and
to bless your family life, TO render its
love worthy Of immortality in heaven.
Homes with plenty Of bread, but with
out words of God in them, lack the finer
lhallowing of ioy and will be desolate in
deed in their sorrows. Every father
should be the priest of his own house
hold. Next looking out from our homes,
words of God are needed in our commu-
nal life--needed in all our city halls. L
know we speak word of advance, and
say much, when I'VE affirm that plunic-
qualities should be regarded as business
corporations; granted it would be a dis
tinct advance if our city could be ad-
ministered as business corporation;
but that would not be enough. For a
city is more than corporation; 1t Is
an aggregate of human life, complex,
manifold, healthfu1, diseased, prosper
Gus, miserable human life; 1t lis hui
man thing, having its own composite
soul to save; and as such it cannot live
| by bread alone, though it's municipal
bread be made of good flour, honestly
| baked; it, too, must live by word Of
God, for this municipal aggregate Of
humanity is a moral and spiritual Gre
alton, having moral needs and higher
aims of the spirit to be realized; so that
| the people need not only capable bakers
of municipal bread to tend their ovens
| for them, but also they need men in
every department to represent them,
who shall be capable of understanding
their moral needs, and alive to their
| higher welfare.
So likewise prosperity cannot be Kept
| by bread alone, without words Of God,
lin the business, and throughout the
commercial relations of the nations, No
country is prosperous simply because
| it is good weather for corn. 1t needs a
good atmosphere for whatsoever things
are honest and Of good report. Bust
ness prosperity must have some word
of God and His righteousness in it to
keep anarchy far from it, Whatever in
the future the social methods or indus
| trial forms of life may be destined to
become, man even in some imagined
notwithstanding civilization will sue
coed no better than man in the past in
living by bread alone; and the welfare
of all peoples depends ultimately on the
amount of the words of God which can
| be kept current and valid In their civ
| ilization. Those words OF the divine
| righteousness and beneficence are as
the reserved gold. without which the
| whole credit of humanity would col
lapse.
Similarly along every line of our mis-.
sionary enterprise, both home and for
eign these words of God are to be dis
| tributed for the life of the world; and
everywhere they are to be communicate
| ed in such ways, old or new, the direct
or indirect as the wants of men may
render the world ready toreceive them.
| But enough. without particu1arizing
! further IL what has now4been said may
serve to arouse us once more to the old
truth that we have in our Lords life,
are teaching words of God by which
we may live. We have a gospel, posi-
ltive as the sunshine. Let us live our
selves positively and exultingly by it.
With an imperious faith in it, let us use
| it and give it in all directions and in all
| possible ways, that we may win our
own souls, and that the human world
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