The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-03

problem, the safeguarding of the fam My by divorce. gislation. all indicate that our people are. are aGake cak .G.. to fress sa 9ssss 9ssSs S smsrEsncies. and sii the stir i. "d in evidence not of stssnation or of
 :t.se ss mors
 quickened and determtnatton reacned that righteousness is not /contempia. tive merely. but has an ag9ressave
 Fifth-Or see how philosophy and science have ceased their challenge and religion has taken them both into come to recognize the fundamentai harmony of nature and revelation ana the unity which lies at the source or
 Sixth-Or again what marvellous ad- vance on past ages is observable in the discovery of comparatively recent times that religion is more tn than Ineivier either uaI soul. That hospital work Is, re- ligion; that school teaching Is religion t1at a:ylSSm :nS wsas sre reixon
 that boys clubs and women's associa- tions, and social reform. and CIVIC nm provement and communal government are all different operations of religion, opening, up avenues of usefulness and benehcience to multitudes who hereto fore have had no more to do than sim ems gate, and have just learned that no man can save his own soul without an effort. to save at least one other
 SeventhSThe outlook has been, wid- ened. the view has been clarified; we have found the mistake in chasing out of religion all efforts except such as as we are the gathers by the change.
 The vision opened to us has snoWn a better way, and emphasized the com. only if all do our duty and utilize ouf privileges. There is a perfectly logi- cal connection in the two terms of Brownings famous aphorism:
 AlTs right with the world"
 The men upon whom we must de- pend to keep the world steered aright are they who preserve the conscious.
 ness that God Is in heaven. and that all His nr children ase er ear'h "
 The sad vail of Goldiora Smith in his melancholy agnostictsm and relt-
 erated by prominent thss hswspaPefbeiM fbat is left to us Is the Christian ideal or character" is one of the manifestations that the church and her mission are misunderstood by large part oI ciN- The church is in no danger of fall ing away from her place as P teacner. a leader and healer under the pivthe me temptations which her Lord and Mas ter successfully resisted-unless sne
 uses her power and authority fGr d temv hy spiritual pride, or transfers her h9mage 's aSe and bestows 1t upon the objects offered The church does not rest her case | of her origin. her authority or her ca pacity upon any interpretation or the, Scriptures nor upon any theory Of in< spiration, but upon a definite person afity which has made itself felt with
 increasing force all through the ages. hs night." but society directed and
 rnided by the ever-present Spirit of the living God. having definite lineage. an orderly arrangement or rth thsp,riins pwbics tiny which is every day fulfilled in one or another department of benencent
 That the church has infused into
 men the principles which are being worked out in the amelioration or dition of mankind in her glory, and
 not the shame of abandonment oi hef ideals. x .h.
 world which is an hourly attested fact and not a theory. the~church has made
 evident that the Kingdom of God is
 now. on earth strengtheaning ana snseh e.,
 cometh not with observation. that is,
 with the blare of 7 trumpets or the | glare of flashlights. but by a hrm ana | steady progress of a quiet and deep.
 seated faith in the great realities of l revelation.
 Naturally. they who look only ,o on 1 inc side of the world -cnflicts. and The tokens furnished by the discontented and the selfish, see nothing but dis | aster. rs ,,s tau and you can hear the tramp of
 Christ's army moving irresistibly to.
 ward final conquest; or. better stu, @ li,t Spr a vision of the spiritual and the Unseen, r1r isr" and you % will be chereed with
 the certainty that the mountain Is full shout those who put their confidence
 in God who Is mighty to save.