The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-21
FORUM OF THE PEOPLE
oPENNEss TO CONVICTION.

which we can not 90 without also o.
Tending against God. We can no:
hope to have any sort of church union
which does not recognize the right Of
the individual and the right of God to
lead that individual as to Him seems
right and best, or possible. This CEN
trail though we must remember:
who hates, hates thee, who loves,
becomes them to thee allied"
Nor must we forget the lesson SO
beautifully portrayed in Whittier's
disarmament"
"Buddha, the holy and benevolent,
Met fell monster, huge and fierce of
look,
Whose awful voice the hills and for
ests shook.
o son of peace" the giant cried, thy
fate
Is sealed at last, and love shall yield
to hate
The unarmed Buddha looking, with no
OF fear or anger, in the monsters face,
In pity said: Poor fiend, even thee l
love-
Lo. as he spake the sky tall terror sank
To hand breadth size; the huge abhor-
renee shrank
Into the form and fashion of a dove:
And where the thunder of it's rage was
heard.
Circling above him sweetly sang the
bird:
Hate hath no harm for love-, so ran
the song;
And peace unweaponed conquers every
wrongn
1t is sometimes we'll for us to look
at ourselves as mirrored in history,
that we may see what manner of man
we are. There are and have been
many sincere-hearted, in-the-main low
ing, orthodox Observation-Disclosures
those words may mean)-christians
who have nevertheless held Him whom
they call their Lord and Saviour, Jesus
Christ, wrapped, as it were in the swad-
ding clothes by which a Jewish pro-
phet was recognized in the Old Dispen-
sation, and they have never permitted
Him to come in close and intimate re-
lation with them, SO that they could
partake of the bread of life with him.
He himself said to such. Eye will not
come unto me that - may have life
And again he said. 20 generation Of
vipers. who hath warned you to flee
from the wrath to Gomez
Judas, one of his trusted disciples,
did not heed the warning given by the
Master at the supper, and he specially
was over taken by the wrath of his
own elf-condemnation, which was SO
great and so terrible that he took his
own life.
When the Master really walks with
and meek and lowly of heart, and hav-
ing delivered our message, we leave it
to God to open the blind eye and to I'M
stop the deaf ear Flesh and blood
can never reveal the Christ to human
heart. That is the work of the Father
in heaven. The following clipping
from the "Newtown Enterprise, -
should be Of interest to those who. as
Jesus said, are able ito read the signs
of the times:
Dr.. Cotton Mather and the Quakers.
George A. Reynolds, clerk Of the fire
board at Hartford, Conn, has had in
his possession for some time copy of
an article published many years ago
in a paper dated at East Greenwich,
which printed Rev. Cotton Mather's
celebrated letter to John Higginson re-
garding the Quakers. Doubt has been
expressed as to the authenticity of this
letter on account of the latter day I'M
christian spirit it exhibits Recently,
while attending the reunion of the
Reynolds family at Bristol. Mr.. Rey-
nolds read the letter as he had it and
Mss Carrie E. Phipps, of New York,
who is related to the Reynoldses, got
interested.
Her great uncle. Thomas Reynolds,
90 years old, who lives in East Green
witch, searched the records of the old
Quaker meeting house in that town
and found there a copy of the Rhode
Island Pendulum, of East Greenwich,
Rhode Island. No. 1892, which contains
the following articles:
Then and Now.-It cost something 20
be a Quaker two hundred years ago.
and the road was often short from the
westinghouse to the whipping post and
prison. If Cotton Mather should
awake from his dreamless sleep OF
nearly two centuries. he might find
things slightly changed. The follow
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