The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-23
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but primarily Jesus Christ's idea of the
divine service is love, self sacrifice,
ministry.-Rev. DIR. Lindsay Parker,
Episcopalian, Brooklyn.
VALUE OF COURAGE.
Men without courage constitute the
weak set in every community It is
the strong, courageous men every
where that succeed. The strength of
a nation is not in the number of its
inha bftantS, but in the proportion OF its
men and women who dare to think and
have the courage of their convictions
Rev w. NJ. Martin, Methodist,
Brooklyn.
THE NEED OF SYMPATHY.
We are social beings: we were Great
ed to live in society. No man is suffi-
cient unto himself. We are mutually
dependent on one another. AS an in
jury to one organ involves a shock to
the entire human system so should
the community at large feel a practical
sympathy for their fellow beings il
any grievance depressing them--Car-
dinaI Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Balti
more.
A DIVINE MONITOR.
Conscience wounded becomes an ad-
der's tongue that will sting to the death
Let no man hope to evade the Nemesis
that follows the ignoring of this divine
monitor.
No tortures which the poets feign
Adn fnaICA the uS1Ce, 1lJOlEEdOlG pam
He feels who night and day devoid of
Carries his own accuser in his breast.
Rev Junius B. Remensnyder. Luther
an New York.
THE USE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
In the early stages of the religious life
of men and. nations. when they begin
to think about themselves and reason
about themselves, they discover that
I thaU n hnndaCa Tho family the
tribe. the creed, the church, the state,
have already set limits to the thought
of man. This comes about naturally
through the effort of men to establish
and keep whatever they find to be good.
/ By experience they have learned that
some things tend to make men wise
and good and happy. As a condition of
social stability and progress they at
once try to fix these things in the minds
/ and habits of men-in poems, in songs.
1 in stories, in creeds, in rites, in cere-
monies, in habits of the daily life. They
! try to keep in mind and to work into
practice that which seems to be good
/ or wise or true. But the time surely
! comes when further experience teaches
that there are better things to be had.
A few learn that there is a chance to
become still more wise and good and
happy. They have rebelled against
external authority in matters of relig-
ious faith and practice. They are eman-
| cipated They have become freed men.
They often. like freed men of all kinds,
| think they have won more than they
really have, for as between slavery and
| freedom slavery is positive. while free
| dom is negative. Slavery means exter-
nal compulsion and constraint; freedom
means the absence of compulsion and
restraint-that is. nothing. After this
fashion one may in religion be free and
be neither wise nor strong nor good.
One of the weakest and most helpless
! of all human creatures is often new
ly emancipated slave. At best he has
the uses Of his powers yet to learn. 1t
takes time to discover that freedom
is not force, but condition. We can
not too greatly emphasize the fact that
in religion we are now free and that
with our freedom our duty and our re-
sponsibility are just beginning. But tC
learn the meaning of true religion. re-
ceived into the mind to instruct the con-
science to strengthen the will, to sweet
en- the affections and to bless the com
mon life of man in all its parts, is g
task not for a year or a generation
With freedom achieved and understood
as it now is we stand at the beginning
of a new era, which opens with a prom
ise more bea utiful than any generation
has ever known. While some are still
mindful OF their stripes and are rubbing
the places where the manacIes chafed