Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-07-19
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Is we're hungry l would not tell
thee; for the world is mine and the
f,IIn.xs thereof. Offer unto
rl,l thanksgiving, and pay thy VOWS
- +hp Most High.-Psalms l :12-l4.
Man are not drawn together by a
o,IIoarion box. To make this the
..,.j1.,rd emblem of the church is but
.n,rhasize the difference between
+I. institution and the one who said,
urorn4 unto me all We that labor and
ere heavy laden and L will give you
ACCT" II little helps the need Of
l,,,.,,.v world to stand ever before it
h..,gfrg il to give, to bring in it's offer
ugs.
10 the plain man there will always
eoDIu some absurdity in the request that
be human and finite, should sacrifice
bfc avn lamb or his few hard earned
nennies to a being who is almighty, to
whom the whole creation belongs. He
cannot understand a Father who does
nothing but sit by his altar and watch
the tithes brought in
Is this the only concrete expression
ne can make Of the spirit of worship,
to give I'D material things to spiritual
hp;Dg? Whence this change of concep-
,ion from the servants of the Man of
Nazareth. who were sent out to heal
and help and do good, to an institution
going out to collect everything that is
good for itself?
Surely nothing could be farther from
the old seer's and singers thought of
the wOndrOus one, from whom all
things came, the source of all being
all beauty all worth and wealth. He,
as lhey clothed his glory in terms of
mankind. was the great giver Instead
Of getrer. 70 him the hungry looked
and were fed. the naked were clothed,
the sad cheered; to all he gave their
meat in due season.
The emphasis was not on Gods need
of man and his possessions, but on
nau's need of the Most High. The life
and spirit, the eternal power that
moves through all our lives, needs not
our bare pittance wrung with anguish
from field or loom, but the opening of
our hearts, the lifting up of ourselves
into touch with things sublime and
spiritual Heaven needs our hearts.
Who is to be pitied more than he
10 whom religion is the dropping Of
pennies through the slot Of a cOllec-
ton box and seeing the world through
its narrow crack. Rather is 1t the
learning to see the eternal goodness,
the unremitting giyer in all this world,
in every event, until the whole being
goes out in grateful praise, offering the
sacrifice Of thanksgiving
True, there is no religion without
sacrifice. But there is none In the
sacrifice of gifts to the Almighty as
though he were hard up, nor in gifts
regarded as payments on paradise mort
8 cages or rs means of notifying an
3 offended judge. The sacrifice whose
n aroma rises sweet to heaven is the
d service of love, the self-denial born of
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u because they are the children of the
i good Father
The broken heart, the contrite sigh,
the sympathy that seryes-these are
8 the sacrifices on which the welfare of
the whole universe waits. We honor
4 the divine less by lofty steepIe or peal
Ing organ than by entering into the
beauty and enjoying the riches of the
8 great temple of nature and making its
i wealth known, available and appreca-
lie by all men everywhere.
The winning of the world waits for
i the revelation of the wealth of the
Lord Of all being. Men need not tarry
I'LL they have taxes for him; with
empty hand, with hungry hearts, with
needy spirits, they are invited to come
10 the Father of spirits and the feass
i OF has love as men came. the sick, the
weary. the sad, long ago to one in
whom they found the wealth of in
finite love.