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or tiaa ;,.a3 6sf So. ss,-@= Rev. .Jo-
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TIE spiritual s5g5of - 1f eTery church
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week ~ week for TIE manifestation q
the power OF tie lla,.y 0,l.ssst.. ;;aF. Isr
Frank De Witt Ta!uiH2c, ilrs byte;'i4l,
Chicago,
The Aim of Life.
The aim Of life the aim q reliyi3n lie
object in view underlying the building
of churches the work Of the hierarchy
and the priesthood, is the restraint and
the suppression of the material and
earthly within us arising from the awe
inspiring conviction that God is ever
watching us and that his heart ever
yearns with love for us.-Rev. =. +.
O'Hara, Catholic, Port Washington,
N Y.
The Book of Books
You cannot compare the Bible with
other books You cannot dismiss the
older Testament to the shelves Of your
library as you would the Koran or the
book of Shasta or even the writings IF
Confucius Great as was the rOncep-
tion of the men who wrote these books,
the difference between them and the
Bible is Il great and impossible gulf
Bishop II. G. Potter, Episcopalian,
New York.
The Supreme Thing.
To love the good and to live the good
are the supreme things in religion.
Good and evil inevitably carry their
own recompense in the peace or pain
they bring No good thing is failure
no evil thing success Heaven and hell
are states Of being. No evil can befall
the good man in either life or death, for
all things work together for the victory
of the good.-Rev. David Utter, Unita-
rian, Denver.
Manifestations of Grace.
We are told to grow in grace and in
the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ The law was given by
Moses, but grace and truth came by
Jesus Christ. This grace manifests it
self by forgiving those who have
wronged us. by uplifting the fallen.
supporting the weak and in a word by
doing good to all men as we have op-
portunity. Rev. j. Murray Taylor,
Christian, Washington.
No Fear of the Truth.
A religion or creed that has any
fear of injury from any truth or fact of
the universe is doomed to go. This is
the century of historic criticism. The
Bible is being studied in new and
higher way, and the old theories of in
fallibility have given way to Il more
rational view. Criticism will save the
Bible, not destroy it. The work of crit
icism is being done by scholars within
the churches. not by heretics outside
Rev. w. II. Ramsay, Unitarian, Louis
vile, Ky.
The Highway to Happiness.
Let it be we'll remembered that no
byway of seltishness leads to happi-
sacrifice and devout endeavor for the
good and happiness Of others and only
that way lies the deep, safe haven Of
an untroubled peace. A man, saith
Scripture. must give an account for
every idle word-that is, for words
that spring from a spirit of irrevcrence
and religious sloth. How much more
shall God call him to a reckoning for
every .unkind word, for every word
shadowed and sharpened by Il spirit
of bitterness, seltshneSS and gloOm,-
Rev. DR.. Henry c. McCook, Prcsbyte-
rian, Philadelphia.
Religion OF Gratitudc.
Christianity is the religion of graft
tudc, and civilization is the result of
such teaching. The dominant note of
Confucianism is loyalty to ancestry, to
parents, to idolatrous cult. to the great
divinely ordained government, and the
result is seen in the subdued. willy, un-
demonStrative Chinaman. who is the
compressed and suppressed product of
long years of such stultifying eduea-
ton. The dominant note of Moham-
mechanism and Buddhism is virtue
nodded into characters by care and ex-
act maximS, and the result is seen in
the fatalstic and negative character
istics of the Hindoo and the Turk.
The inner note of Christianity is graf
itude expressed by joyful accents of
Thanksgiving and praise. within the
Iox
posing no weight of chains, and the
result is character and virtue and 10y
atty, but freed from slavish thraldom
and jubilant in its attitude. - Rev.
Thomas Levan Bickel, Reformed
Church. Philadelphia.