The Republican journal., 1911-09-28
A Penny Well Invested.

To THE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL:
Some men excel their fellows in one thing;
some in another. Washington did an i'm.
portant work in the founding of nation
Fulton helped to make the modern ocean
liner possible. Neal Dow took a good
long step toward national prohibition but
there is much for everyone to do toward
the contamination of final results. Many
are advocating spelling reform. If this
could be accomplished much time and
labor would be saved to every child to be
educated in our language during all the
centuries to come.
What Pestilozi was in soul-culture,
| Carnegie in the art of acquiring wealth,
Wesley was in the art Of cultivating re
/ ligious emotions While Darwin and
Huxley would introduce you to the work
ings of Creative Energy, Fox would in
troduce you to that Creative Energy it.
self
/ One of the best papers representing
the Fox sentiment is The Friends Intel
ligencer, published at the N. W. Corner
18th and Cherry streets, Philadelphia,
Pa. They are glad to send sample cop
les to all requesting them. They also
advertise reports of the work done by
this people in their General Conference
at rs to so cents per year. Here are
some little sentiments CLEANED from
these reports:
There's destiny that makes US brothers,
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others
/ Comes.back into our own"
Nathaniel Dunn had his pupils memo
rize certain amount of Bible for every
misconduct. One of his pupils becoming
blind in old age felt thankful to his for
mer teacher for his many punishments.
The poet Whittier's description of a
First-day meeting is given as follows:
A favorite OK that was browsing in
the yard raised his head to the window,
rolled his large, lustrous eyes over the
little assembly, and listened with evil
dent satisfaction. Later tall, rugged
Friend of the masculine persuasion stood
up, and in stentorian tones gave testi-
mony.
A look of CONSERVATION came into the
eyes of the bovine auditor. 1mmedi-
ately horns and tail were high in air, and
he went believing down the hillside. In
after years Whittier was wont to relate
the incident and to commend the just
discrimination of the OK critic.
From the ordinance of 1887 creating
the Northwest Territory is quoted: Ere
ligion, morality and knowledge being
necessary to good government, schools
and the means of education shall forever
be encouraged" Just as the sun fur
nishes the energy necessary for the
grass to grow and flowers to bloom, so
God, the infinite and eternal energy,
gives to all things in the universe
cal, intellectual, and spiritual. Into
every human soul this divine energy falls
as the sunlight on the flower and every
human soul becomes transformer of
that energy. To receive this divine en-
ergy into ones soul and to transform it
effectively into these spiritual forces
which make for justice, mercy, unset
fishness, serenity Of mind and life, this is
true religion. Whether we think of God
as an Infinite Energy acting through I'M
changing and Interchangeable laws through
out the universe, or whether we think of
Him as an all-wise, all-powerful. Heav-
emily Father, our way to a religious life
is the same. The ten commandments
have been in the main transferred to the
law books of the United States, The
right Of worshiping God is protected by
the fundamental law of every State in
the Union. Most States have law
against profanity. The command to
keep the Sabbath is found in all the
States save two, There are laws in re-
gard to the obedience of children, the
protection of human life, RIGHTEOUSNESS
and property. Each State should teach
her own laws in connection with the
moral and religious principles out of
which they have grown.
Inc Scriptures are nursery of the
spirit, full of stimulating influence and
inspiring evidences of the way in which
men have found God. The glory of the
Bible is its sincerity, the faithful repre-
sentation of the struggle, ever going on
in souls that are loyal to God, to grow in
Righteousness.
The slow evolution of worship from
the dread of the strong to the alteration
OF the righteous is story of surprising
interest, for it tells not merely of man
cropping after God but of the Father
seeking his children.
Religion has to do with the attitude of
the individual toward the Divine.
Science is in some degree the express
or Ne l.