The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-13

- ELIGION is nothing in a man H1e II IT is lot verythlng, a
religion that is lot everything is a drudgery rather than a delight
- - a load rather tina a hh something a man as 10 larry rather tnan
something which carries him.
4han ceremony in a ritual Dr. membership in al organization; it must be
which a "a al speak as did the man whose words constitute hi te OF
The supertorty of Christianity over all other religions is found in the
fact hat while it insists on facts or Its foundation n truth for Its nan
tsa+ation it anneast to personal experience for its final verifcaton. In es-
sence ChristianHy is a n experience Let u ISL two questions aboutths ex-
p" FTirs-wbat is tn content of this experience, Or, in other words. just
what does Christianity offer to d o for man? ..
/ chrstianity offers man a knowledge of what he ought to be, which
means that Christ opens mans eyest o the perfect ideal of manhood MS
ideal Christianity is embodied in a person, and that person is Jesus Christ
But you do not make a mar good by telling him what goodness is or
by setting forth the bitter consequences Of wrong-dong A perfect ldeai OF
manhood may drive men to despair Other religions have been satisfied when
they W set fmth what they conceived o be the ideal life, but Christianity
, Christianity creates in mn the desire to be what he ought to be.
Freedom, according to the teachings Of Christ, does not onsst IN DONG IA
you like to do-that, IN TIL long. run turnso to b the most ap1ect SLAVERY.
True freedom consists In liking to do What you ought to do. By creating IN
man the "new heart" Christianity mparsn o mi knowledge OF what Is
right, but aso a desire to 10 the rght ~
g. Christianity provides man with the power to do what he ought to
cnnattn as well as duty, impulse rs wel as law lie a wei as 81"
second-What is the value of Christian experience? -.
l. 1t provides a way of verifying the claims of Christianity that is within
the reach of very man. By obeying The blind man in my tex vennea te
power If Christ Christianity must be tried. The verifcaton Of Christianity
this practise comes experience, and in this experience man. finds the best
proof of the power of Christ The open yes are the best argument fol-
Christ. (
q Christian experience gives reality to religion Christianity never BE-
comes ral to a man Until it becomes an experience When a la "a a.
"one thing I know" he has an unanswerable argument fofhis religion.
8 Christian experience makes religion a delight a joy, a n inspiration.
To many of us religion is a drudgery, a burden We go through religious
privilege; give money we would much rather keep in Jul pockets; abstain
from many things that we hunger for We do other things we 10 lot at all
tan experience car deliver us from this slavery, for such it is. Such a re-
ngon. whatever else it may be- is lot the religion of Him who said, my
yoke is easy and my burden light"
A cathedral window cannot be appreciated from the outside 1t must re
studied from the inside if its design and coloring are to be fully enjoyed Just
man. woman and child in the wold. Gd hasten the day when all shall
have it, ever from the least to the greatest