Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-24
THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION
Men Are Thinking More Seriously and Feeling More Deeply on
the Great Themes of Life.
Editorial in April Century,

April Century,
= If Christ meant righteous
ness, when he spoke of the Lord thy
God # he meant righteousness wor-
shipped as the sovereign reality of
life, we must assent to his declara-
ton that the first and great com
mandment is Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart and
with all thy soul and with all thy
mind"
The Deeper Note.
All this means that religion is. af.
ter all, the principal thing; that .
mere readjustment of ethical formu-
laries is not enough; that deeper
note than this must be struck if we
hope to restore the lost harmony to
J the human soul and the social or.
der. There must be something to
worship something that kindles our
purest love and marshals our high
est loyalties. Nothing less than this
will meet the social need of the time
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in ruling ideas for a mighty recon-
structiOn of ideals, for new concep-
tions of the meaning and value of
life.
The call is heard, as we have al
ready said, in many unexpected quar-
ters. A daily newspaper, published
in Wall street, declares that there
is nothing the country needs just
now so much as a revival of old
fashioned religion. A daily paper,
published in the interior, has taken
every morning for a week subjects
of its leading editorial from the
phrases of st. Paul's praise of love
as the greatest thing in the world |
The last Christmas number of a
western daily journal had a brilliant
editorial three columns long upon
The Holy Spirit" written by one
of the strongest Journalists in Amer
lea, and full of the passion of a gem
uine religious faith. These are
signs of the times. Men are think
ing seriously and feeling deeply on
these great themes of the inner life.
Even those who have not philoso-
phized much about it have the i'm
preston. that help must come from
this quarter in resisting the en-
croachments of the dominant ma
terialism, and in bringing the people
back to the ways of sanity and in
tegrity
The Social Welfare.
One phase of this revival of re-
ligion is significant. It's main con-
Germ is less for individual than for
social well-being. The two cannot
we'll be separated, and doubtless
those who are earnestly promoting
It have a consciousness of their own
need of deliverance from
he engrossing mammonism. But
he emphasis rests on the common
hanger, and the salvation sought is
a social salvation. The
lotion seems to be gaining that the
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lot well be preserved in a fetid So
ial atmosphere. Heretofore there
las been much protest against any I
lose contact of religion with bust I
less or with politics. Now it seems !
o be assumed that nothing but re- {
igion can rennovate brutalized bus
ness and corrupt politics. 1t is a
reat enlargement of the popular I
onception of religion and ought to
ain for it some new consideration.
Coughs that start In the fall and
ang on until spring are sure trouble
reeders unless checked and cured.
pneumonia and consump-
ion are the direct result. Foley's
Ioney and Tar cures the cough, stops
he hard breathing and heals and
oothes the infiRmed afr passages
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