The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-09

organic part even while in time; for in the
hnal interpretations of things all worlds
blend into one standing shadows scat
tered and separate in the early afternoon
are gathered into one universal shadow as
the afternoon merges in evening gentleness.
This idea is so far from being difficult
and adapted only to advanced and sanity
minds on the edge of heaven that | think
II very simple, and children respond 10 II
more rapidly sometimes than inert and
calloused adults whose thoughts run in
grooves. AT all events Paul and John over
flow with IL as the trough at the wayside
fed from the spring. To grow into oneness
qUire exuberance and Joy of hope-that is
their gospel AS the church became organ.
unsymmetrically emphasized because OF
their attraction to inferior types of minds
The doctrine OF hell was shifted to the fore
front. The CHASTITY phases of the death of
Jesus were painted by the masters who
really represented their own semi-barbars
Gus age The pulpits no doubt focused at
tention on the relieving aspects OF the gos-
pei rather than on Its inspiring and en-
nobling aspects. The pulpts-except OF tho
masters-echoed the pews, and do yet
sometimes! The medieval theology was
sombre. lugubrious and at times lurid
The lightning played the storm cloud
and seldom did the rainbow appear.
SIGNIFICANCE OF CHRIST'S DEATH.
But a mother cannot keep her child
in swaddling clothes. have seen a mother
mourn when she cut the long curls off from
her boy. it seemed like funeral only
without the hearse; but the boy did not
cry at the loss of curlsl And the world
must grow. Only note that the growth
is not away from God, but farther into
God. as the tree that seems to be getting
farther away from the ground is but really
working with it's hundred roots deeper
down into the nutritious earth The love
OF God is shining forth in its resplendence
glory human wit
its Disagreement Of sin, is the center OF
modern thought. We are mining down
Of verbal inspiration or theories of an
atonement of Jesus are losing their lustef
and the primacy of His sacrifice and love
as means Of woOing our hearts into per.
feet communion with our Father in heaven
that is our heritage, that ought to be
our passion. We glOrify this sacrament
because this sacrament so simple ard Sc
rene gloriies our human nature as the
temple Of God, as replete with internal
possibilities, as marred by sin, yet CRYING
out from its sad depths for life of pur-
our honest life chords with the passion OF
Jesus 10 carry a conquered world I'D into
the triumph of conscious enjoyment OF
ITO argue atheism out OF the world is an
impossibility. for the very faith that in this
mean way drives out the enemy is itself
form of atheism. In such a case the victor
has no more faith than the vanquished
unbeliever. To beat somebody is not real
victory. but to beat ourselves and excel our
own record, that Is victory. Not until the
positive sweeping consciousness of love and
infinite JOY runs through our life thrillingly
as the juices through the plant in spring
not until we assimilate and absorb into our
| own very selves the best God gives and all
| life sing forth a divine creed. not until then
| will atheism shrink and hide it's face i'm
| shame or agnosticism acknowledge the SUI
| periority of a gospel that aims not merely
/ TO free from pain or unfetter from the
| thraldom OF vice, but TO make us one with
| God in Joy and service"