The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1909-04-02
Forward, March!

The difference between Christianity
and all other religions is that it is so
imbued with love and forgiveness.
C%Onfucius and Buddha gave noble
messages to the world. but neither so
overlooked with love for all humanity
as that of the NaZarene.
The progress Of the twentieth cen.
fury will be toward the realization, in
an everyday. common life sense, Of the
sermon on the mount.
Really, If men could but see it, the
world is in the dawn of Il ncw era-
the real Christian era-whcn the crecds
and divisions will disappear, when the
can't and formalities will be swept
aside. when the Christ will come into
his own and when all humanity will
become his church.
1t is time to break the letters and he
free. as he would have us frcc-free to
turn from our materialism and false
conceptions of life. free to arise TO the
nobler destiny that awaits is.
Nothing is exactly like anything that
has been before. Life progresses by
embodiment, development, evolution.
Thus all things are forever new. They
include the old, yet are more than the
old. There is infinite variety. Each
moment has it's own revelation. Each
presents in turn something new and
| strange, some novel beauty, some
phase Of truth never seen before. All
ready to unfold into life and manifcs-
tation under the %broodings Of progress.
There is no loss. Form and function
change, but being goes on. The past is
ever included in the present. All Of its
results are here. All Of the record Is
kept In the universal storehouse. Not
a blade Of grass passes unmarked. Ev-
cry hair of the head is numbered.
There is an eternal conservation Of Ill
the things that are. Appearances come
and go like clouds Of the sky. but tho
sun shines on forever. Nothing that is
can ever cease to be. Its shells may
change, but the essence is immortal.
No experience can ever really be for
gotten. The universe knows nc sucli
thing rs loss.
Life is continuous. 1t is a unity. In
| lllil Unity Is lltNSI VAlitluSttu aiISl
Day by day presents some new phase
Of the one life. All things that arc
hold relation to all things that ever
have been. to all things that ever viii
be. The loom of life goes Oh weaving
and the cloth of gold it produces is
continuous and seamless. In it is ~
infinite number Of threads. No one
thread is like another all in all. Eacl
is distinct from the others, and yet nj
go to make up the one texture. Eact
thread may be compared to IN individ
ual life. On they go, now over, now
under, but no thread yer ceases. New
colors are constantly appearing, new
combinations are eve made. but 1t is
always the same cloth, made up from
the same individual lives. So the war;
and wool Of time go on to eternity.
We can V be bound to the old.
The relative statement Of yesterday
! does not answer for today. The creeds,
the forms, the husks that infOlded US
last year cannot Unfold us this year.
We see the truth in a new way and
must tell Of it in a new language. The
truth has not changed, but we have
changed in our larger consciousness OF
the truth. The spirit of man on
sta1ltly receives a revelation from God.
The word comes always. 1t does not
stand still. 1t ever has its %interpreta-
ton in harmony with the spirit of the
time. 1t is as infinite in its evolution
as is life. 1t develops as u under
standing Of it develops.
He who ties himself to an old Gus
tom will stand still in the race Of life.
If he would go forward to his divine
destiny he must be free. He cannot
weigh himself down with a ball and
chain forged in some past age. He
must live in accordance with the Cos
pei Of the now-the living word Of God.
The past is our teacher, not u ty-
rant. The dead have no right to rule
the living. Precedent is all very well.
provided it does not become q man
acle. But he who looks for precedent
has his face turned backward instead
Of forward. He is looking to the
darkness in the west Instead Of the
rising dawn in the east. He is trying
to cranp the growing spirit Of today
J in the narrow shells that should have
: been cast aside when their use ended.
The stairway to God leads upward
and onward. He who would mount
must keep his face to the future.
The great teachers, prophets and
{, leaders are those who have sounded
the watchword Of the new. They have
I refused to be bound by anything less
than the voice Of God in their owr
souls.
We need not worry about the past
1t is safe. 1t cannot be lost. Our only
T, concern is to keep on. moving.
The commanding general that mar
s..,als days. years. worlds and races
gives the constant command of For
ward. march,!
Look Ahead.
It Is the Easter morning q. n new
age. The shaclles are broken. Never
can they be revealed. The worship
- mon. OF forms. Of letter, Of creeds,
cc days. OF anything except the eternal
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