The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-14

der the curse of the God that made
 them-that the 0ny way anybody can
 be saved is by the acceptance of a be-
 lief which contradicts the reason and
 subyerts the principles of justice? That We can only be saved by suppos-
 ing God capable of offering to the wOlld a scheme that no court in Chris tendon would dare to entertain? If
 the idea of an all inclusive hell-the l eternal reign of evil, under the sway of
 a so-called God of infinite wisdom, love
 and power-be gospel, let every crea- | ture of man know it. Let it be adver- 1 tised by the blaze of meteors, the flare | of comets and the variations of the aurora. That all men may be warned
 of impending doom, let it be written in | letters of blood upon the moon and in strong unmistakable shadows upon ev- | cry sunrise and sunset sky. If this ! gospel of the failure of Gods creation 1 be true, let the universe be draped in mourning; and let it be announced to
 us, not with carols of joy, but with | faltering lips. and to the drip of tears. i It may be true, but it is horrible! It l is not gospel, good news, even if true.
 It can never bring peace to earth or
 convince men of the good will of heav- en.
 4 lady member of an orthodox 1 church after attending a Universalist
 meeting, was asked by a sister conn
 municant, What she had heard over
 there?" The lady replied that the
 minister said God would finally re-
 store the whole family of mankind to
 holiness and happiness" Thereupon, the rebuking sister exclaimed, You had better attend your own church, for, thank God, we teach better things than that"
 This simple anecdote is a telling arr gument against this arrogant assump- tion of super evangelism. How much
 better than this limited and impotent
 gospel is the thought of God as inc great and loving Father of all man.
 kind, who has sent men into the world
 to prove their divine parentage by the diyineness of their daily living. He has infinite strength for their weak
 ness, infinite sympathy with their striving, infinite compassion upon their shortcomings. When they sin He cor~
 rects them with a Fathers firmness
 and a Fathers love, so that after
 wards it worketh the peaceable fruits of righteousness" When their earthly life is over He affords them an endless opportunity for growth towards the full stature of the sons and daughters of God. We accept Jesus as our spir- ttual leader, and in accordance with 'His teaching we regard salvation as dependent upon our own achievement, not upon our acceptance of a pardon purchased by the death of an innocent man. Righteousness is salvation, here and hereafter. It follows that there can be but one destiny for the chill dren of God. His eye is not dark ened that it cannot see, neither is His hand shortened that it cannot save" All worlds are His, and all life is His, and no matter where in His great uni verse He may send us i've cannot drift beyond His love and care" The true Evangelism holds that "all shall know Him from the greatest even unto the least of them" That the whole race of man, down to the most degraded of the species, may look in hope to. that
 "One far off divine event
 To which the whole creation moves," in which God shall be all and in all."