The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-11
Life on the High LeOels;
 The Wonders of Christianity
p YwTLLIAM T. ELLrs.

D YwILLIAM T. ELLIS.
 There has been much talk of the strenuous life and of the simple life, but what we need the most is the ris- en life. Existence is on too low plane for good living. All the mias- mas and murkiness of the lowiands contribute to unheaithful living. A real and practicable and substantiai reform. of most far-reaching signin- canoe. would be for individuals to rise to . higher level of living. That is the way Christianity has wrought all its wonders. It has lifted up men and women. one by one. to loftier lire. They have given free play to the and they have Identified their person. alities with that of the Lord. Low practices, low standards. low ideals have then become superseded by the Ideals of Jesus. Their rule of conduct, mostly unexpressed. is For me to live is Christ"
 The only noble thigh life" Is that which ia lived on the ioftiest levels of aitruism and service and sacrifice.
 To give up Is the nrs. step toward going up.
 Niagara's great power is now em- pioyed to run the street railways and propel the machinery of scores of cities and towns throughout Canada and the States. The same power. how ever. is also employed to light the smallest cottages and to run the poor toiier's sewing-maqhine. It is not too great for small tasks. Similarly. the exhaustless power of Gods helping Spirit Is sufhcient for small achieve ments as well as for great. It enables one Christian to control his temper and another to die a martyrs death at the stake. As Paul points out 1t is good to help a man to be temperate, and also to help him achieve q trans formed. character.
 Some curious and interesting changes are made in the American Re- yised Version of the Bible. over the King James edition. In a number of significant instances the verb has been changed from the active to the passive form, Thus. Tn the passage which forms the. basis of the present study the familiar words of Paul, "If ye then be risen together with Christ, seek those things which are above" have been made to read. If then ys be raised together with
 
 agent is not fnan, but God Man does not rise of himself with Christ: he simply lets himself be raised. The power Ia all of God It Is met |, but Christ" as Paul elsewhere says. or Christ in you. the hope of glory" Only by the supernatural does 1t be- come possible for a mortal to attain unto the Christ life.
 t~4~ hn ~k o the humiliation of. their Lord, and they share his resurrection. and. like him., they share themselves with the world.
 Only . triumphant Christ can give . person victory over his own baser self.
 "For liberty did Christ set you free" --libeYty to be and to do the best. liberty to rise abou the old self and into an ever enlarging nswness of life.
 The other day I met 6 stranger at . hotel table in an Ohio college town. He wore a Brotherhood button and addressed him. He had been sum- moned from his distant home 10 the bedside of student son seriously ilL The boy had looked on death calmly. and the fathers face ahone as he told me how the sick young man had said.
 T and one wonder. and shall be happy to go to either" With giistening eyes the man went on to say to me. T tell you. friend, it's great to know when you're down in the Valley of the that he Is with you" That father knew. He had tested and prov ed the truth that Christ conquers even the fear of death. The Lords friends share his victory over the grave.
 
 They who live for eternity should live as immortals. The prince may not demean himself as does the beggar ''yoblesse oblige." A heavenly crown calls for heavenly conduct. The glory of the life eternal and supernai should be brought down to irradiate aarth by all who possess it as az in- heritance.
 It is always Easter on Gods side of the grave.
 The Christian religion Is pitched on an ascending scale. It begins with an and if ends with an ascension. The path of the just shines more and more to the perfect day; the day that is refulgent with the seen presence of the Sun of Righteousness.
  ture. whether he call himself a psy- chologist or merely common-sense man, knows that there Is a downward tug and pull to q life lived for ma terial pleasure or sordidly selfish ends. Sin is on a descending scale. Its slaves Rc from worse to worse. All it's roads aead downward. On the oth- CT hand there is a power of uplift in Christianity makes men bet ter. Its followers grow from grace to grace" An old saint is holier and happier than a young one. The long CT Christ is followed, the higher he exalts life. Ills risen power Is impart- ed to his friends to help them. too, to rise, until they become partakers of his life and identified with him.
 4 curious development of church work. allied to the psycho-t -therapeu- tic movement, is the establishment of a "silence" room in the Emmanuel Baptist Church. Chicago. No one who crosses the threshold will be permit ted to utter e word. even in whisper. The pastor Rev. Johnston Meyers. that many women arc on the verge of Q nervous breakdown for the simple reason that they have no place where they can remain absolutely quiet.
 All the "libersi" religious bodies that did not come within the scope of the Fedaration of Churches which waa perfected In Philadelphia this winter have organized e National Federa- ton of Religious Liberals" A con- vention win be held in one of the BriendH' Meeting Houses of Philadel-