The Universalist., 1897-07-24
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Dedication Hymn.
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JOY dwells in every soul,
Praise would her mead unroll,
Let rapture swell
Sing oh ye people sing!
Bid song your tribute bring
To God our heavenly king,
Our love to tell.
This house we give to Thee
May it thy temple be,
Pure, undefiled,
Firm on Gods truth divine
Built we this house of thine
Oh, may thy love sublime
Dwell in each child
On thy strong arm we lean
Trusting thy power supreme,
Thy care so true.
Thy love can never fail
Though sin and death assail,
Thy spirit will prevail
All to subdue.
Ida Reyner Martin, Ethel Mo.
The Christ that We Need.
It is this Christ in the Bible, in the,
church, in the life of the world, that we
need. He reveals God to men; he
comes to show US that he is the son of
God. But that God has other sons,
that "we are the sons of God," and that
he is our elder brother. He came from
God to tell us that we are all "heirs Of
God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ"
He reveals the God-like and the God
liken ess in men, and shows us how we
may walk with God, and "become one
with the Father" He is the light and
the life of men. He is the revelation OF
the Fathers love to his children. the
man Christ Jesus, who came to show US
the Father. He is not "God the Som
as some teach, but "the Son of God," as
the Bible teaches. This is our faith
Rev. w. III. Jones.
Words at Commencement.
My young friends, when this COM
m encement is over and you weigh the
cost to the parents of this education of
yours, the labor and sacrifice, realize
how faithfully you have been equipped
for the future. your heart will swell with
ratitude. Resolve to repay them with
upright manhood and womanhood.
When you go out into the night and be-
hold the beauty of a matchlees Kansas
night, feel that over you is love divine.
Since the beginning and through time
and eternity, love WILL as it ever has
labor for you and for ne. Love God,
follow Christ, keep your hearts filled
with love. You have not seen your best
or happiestsdays. A life in love grows
happier and better to the very end. All
your best life lies before. Go forth with
faith, hope, and love, but the best of
these is love.
God watch over you and keep you in
all your.ways,. ,.and save you at last with
a perfect salvation.-Re c. L. Ball.
The Summer Sunday.
If there is a credulous soul who imag-
ined that any perceptible remnants of
the Puritan Sunday are left to us. he
had better study the methods of observ-
ing the day in the great metropolis. He
will realize that it is too late to talk
about preserving the Sunday of our
Sires. 1t has entirely disappeared. The
Am erican Sunday of today is totally
different day, in it's spirit and it's works,
from the Sunday of forty years ago. The
old observances are tradition. The old
feeling toward the day is memory.
The American Sunday may not be the
so called continental Sunday" But
n either is it any longer the day in whose
ather strict and wholly serious atmos-
phere the children of forty years ago
were trained. In the interests of "clear
thi nking," as Joseph Cook used to say,
let us not talk any more about "preserv-
ing" that which has wholly gone by. 1t
is time now for us to begin to consider
W hat we can make of the Sunday of the
future, out of the confused and opposite
vi ews which are held about it today
Rev. j. @. Adams ID.
Gravitating to Higher Citizenship.
Let us rejoice in decided gravitation
toward the highest and noblest type of
citizenship which is going on. The first
type is in disrepute. The thoroughly
mercenary man must go, and is going.
The second type has almost outlived its
necessity. Patriots as they existed in
the olden days are not needed now.
"The devotion of the individual to the
corporate welfare was one of the first es-
sentials of success in societies which ex-
listed primarily for military purposes,
where the struggle for existence was car
ried on mainly between organized bodies
of men. We had accordingly, in that
stage of society an extreme sense of de-
votion to clan Of country" But we are liv-
ing under a new order; we are not, in
this land at least, in battle array. Peace
is our motto and peaceful is our spirit,
Love is our ensign. Hence, as one OF the
keenest observers of this generation has
said, there is a gradual and steady de-
cline of patriotism OF the ancient type,
and an increase Of patriotism of Chris
tian kind. The people have been taught,
ere Jesus came, to render unto Cesar
the things that were Cesar's. Christ
onI HE fOllomaro hou0 kI~os..