The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-09

a very notable service by asking Jesus that question, it drew from him His definition of religion, which must stand supreme and unapproachable through all ages unto the worlds end. Ever since the lawyers question got it's answer there has been no need, when that answer was known, for anybody to undertake to de- fine religion, save In the words of Jesus; and everybody who has undertaken to de- fine it otherwise than as these words do, has either under-defined it, or override fined it. To love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul, and your neighbor as yourself, said Jesus to the lawyer, is not only to fulfil the great commandment in the law; it Is to fulfil all the commandments of all the law; every syllable of command spoken by God to humanity; and every vision of every prophet soul vouchsafed downward from heaven to earth, or piercing heaven up- ward from earth
 Soul of the Church.
 The soul of the church has not been kept alive, as some men think. by the decrees of infallible councils or infall- ble popes; nor as others fondly imagine by verbally inspired doctrines and subtle metaphysical distinctions and exhaustive confessions of faith; the soul of the church-all the soul it has, or ever had, has been kept in it and alive by the sim pie and sublime declaration, that religion is the love of God with heart, mind and soul, and the love of ones neighbor as oneself.
 The True Christian.
 I say no man is a Christian, whatever else he may be, churchman, vestryman. deacon, elder, steward preacher bishop, pope; and no woman is a Christian, whatever else she may be. whatever pious work engaged in, unless he unless she is honestly struggling to fulfill in all the relations of life, in the little things and the big things of it. the great Mas ter divine vision and knowledge of re- ligion as heart-love mind-love, soul love of the eternal God. and self-love passing beyond the service of self to include all neghbor-selves in a com mon mercy, a common justice, com mon redemption, common good, glory and salvation.
 Glory, God and Salvation.
 There is good, there Is glory, there Is salvation only for men who know them- selves neighbored in the eternal fibers of their being by all other men. whatever their accidental differences, and honestly undertake to live upon, or toward the olVlne nelBnt or tnlS knOWleuBe, strengthened and forwarded by true hearted, true-minded, true-souled wor- ship of the One Father of the one human race
 Surely we can afford to thank that astute Pharisee lawyer for trying to tempt Jesus with his question!-his ques- ton which was answered by the only definition of religion that is humanly, divlnely, eternally religious; the one den- milton of 1t that no ingenuity of human wickedness can ever prove false and no human goodness or wisdom ever tran scend or wish to transcend.
 The Night Services.
 Another large congregation was present at the Church of the Advent at the night services. The members of the St. Mary s-on-the-H Highlands and Grace Episcopal church affiliated with the Ad- vent congregation at night In compli- ment to the new rector. The sermon and music were in keeping with the morning service and many more complimentary expressions for Mir. Ewing were heard.