The Newtown bee., 1904-04-29
SOCIAL TOPICS.
BY O. o. WRIGHT OF THE
 CHRISTIAN LIFE"

CHRISTIAN LIFE"
 This is the title of little book of great interest and value, by Griffith Jones. It is published by Thomas Whitaker, 2 and Bible House, New York, postpaid 55 cents.
 The following paragraphs will give some idea of the great subject treated:
 "Here, then, is an age extraordinary for it's intellectual, practical and spir- itual vitality. Surely we are living in times when.there is a noble opportuni- ty for the development of a large, ample, all-Sided Christian character! That is certainly true; but the fact remains that the intellectual man is often not religious, and far from being practical; the practical man is often far from being as pious or thoughtful as he ought to be; the pious man is often neither intellectual nor practical. Even in the religious world, we have these three types of men, and the lines of separation, often of antipathy, be- sharp and rigid. It is hard to get the intellectual Christian to take his place in the prayer meeting or the Sunday school; it is hard to get the pious Christian to listen sympathetically to a sermon that taxes his intelligence and deals with the deeper principles of religion; while the practical Christian looks right and left at these two ex- treme brothers of his, and cries, "A plague on both your houses,' and goes his own way without remembering that he, too, is just as lacking in what makes the full-grown man.
 Now, the aim of the Gospel is to de- velop type of manhood which is just the union of these fractional kinds. In the New Jerusalem the length and breadth and the height were equal; that is, in the new, complete man in l Christ Jesus, there is proportion and harmony of nature in which one facul- ty balances another, and each contrib utes equally to the fullneSs and beauty of the whole. We have been satisfied with being mere brains to think, or mere hearts to worship, or mere hands to do the will of God. Faith, and thought and works have been divorced; has often been lacking in reverence, an Evangelism much of which is an outrage on honest thinking, philan- thropy that is shortsighted and senti- mental. l look for the time when l Mind and heart according we'll
 | Shall make one music as before;
 when criticism shall be full of faith and faith free from cowardice, and both quick of hand and foot to dc good.
 And when will that time be? Wher
 men will learn the lesson of submit.
 ting their whole nature to Christ
 when they will first give their heart
 to His love, then their minds to knov
 His truth, then their hands to do His
 work. Unless thought is quickenec by love, and tested by action, it re mains a thing of ar and moonshine
 If worship is unregulated by intellect and does not issue in service, it evap crates into sentiment, and is snar' : and delusion. If service is unhal lowed by high motive, and neglectfu of wise adjustment of means and ends it will do more harm than good in 5 world already too full of blind enthu siasms But if we could combine ant
 balance these three channels of huma
 activity, and become at once pious il - intellect, intelligent in the heart-life
 and wise in practical effort, the worl
 would quickly move with accelerate f. foot towards the age of gold tha 2 flushes the far horizon with it's ligh of hope.'