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me Uonsecrated Life.

A good many Christians dedicate
their service to their pastor and when
he goes they go. When medicine stands
in bottle, the good qualities go to the
bottom, leaving worthless water at the
top. To be useful it must be mixed,
The consecrated life means that the
good, noble purposes, resolutions, prom
Uses and God given abilities of my life
shall not lie dormant, but be SO mingled
with my thoughts and actions as to
bring to the world the healing balm of
Christ's atoning sacrifice. Rev. w. e.
Dugan, Stewart Memorial Church, San
Francisco.
Christlike Spirit.
The same spirit which ought to be in
IL the church more than it is should be in
politics, industry, in everything where
men band themselves together for the
doing of any good thing. The devil is
willing that the spirit of Christ should
be in the churches if he could lock it
up there and keep it out OF the daily re-
lations of life. Only where the spirit of
Christ rules may men come together
without strife and avarice. It may be
said that unselfshness is not practical
in the business world, but Christ was
eminently practical, and his life was
the model of unselfishness. Rev. Dr.
w. e. Barton, Congregationalist, Boston.
Religion of the Future.
The religion of the future must lead
and inspire men. 1t must offer to all
classes and nations the joftier ideals of
true godliness and justice, one which
will commend itself to head, hand and
heart, and one that will cement all
classes of men together, teaching them
that they are children of one and the
same Father. 1t will not be thing of
dead forms and ceremonials, but q pow
er inspiring men with the grandest
hopes for the life that now is and Of
that which is to come BY it the broth
erhood of man will become reality and
the fatherhood Of God q sublime
thought, lifting men up to noble pur-
pose and Christlike life. Rev Dr. Har-
court, Methodist, Philadelphia.
The Christian Faith.
It is thought that the Christian faith
will be displaced---wil1 be outgrown
Many of it's forms have been, its sys-
TENS, its definable theology. But be-
cause it's ethical ideals are the highest
the spirit and essence Of Christianity
will abide Its history is history of
extraordinary expansion. It has shown
the power of adapting itself to the most
diverse forms of thought, and it will go
on sioughing the ideas associated with
it in days of darkness and superstition
and will spread undivided in the world
and operate unspent by it's own divine
vitality. 1t contains the potency of nor
NAL, ethical and spiritual development,
and as one said, will assimilate and
absorb in the future all the best forces
that enter our civilization, and yet will
not lose it's essential spiritual charac-
ter. Rev. A. Wells, Unitarian, San
Labor's Cathedral.
Workingmen have theology. 1t did
not come from theological seminary,
but from the factory. Labor is becom-
ing more and more social conscience
1t believes in sincerity of Christ whose
carpenter shop is labor's cathedral -
Rev. William RAIDER, Congregationalist,
San Francisco
Soul Development.
The soul is developed from within,
but shaped from without. There is an
exterior force belonging to the soul it.
self that may be called the real cause Of
it's development, but there are multi.
tude of outside influences that greatly
affect the development. Rev. Thomas
z U..sssss. I-cs,e's C4E.sI Dc2yer.