The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-04-18

eyes of high heaven? II was in prison
and We did not come unto me-"
3. Mummeries in religion whilst
the selfish life goes on undisturbed is
obnoxious to the world.
In spite of it's faults and blemishes,
we live in a world which despises
shams, and in the main is earnestly
seeking the truth in science, in re-
Hgion, and Is DESTROYS of being led
only by eternal truth of God. 1t has
thrown aside the old idea of a fat
earth, six thousand years old, and
| with this error it is suspicious of
many others, and must be met by the
spiritual truth of Jesus, and His gos-
| pei.
3. 1t is hard to lead against Gus
tom, out of ruts. There are old fogies
to throw cold water. 1 heard of an
old maid who was ready to besmar-
ried, the guests were all present, but
she backed out, saying Il amt used to
SIGH" When organs were introduced
| into Protestant churches there was a
great hue and cry. When the last
version of the Bible was made people
thought the bottom would fall out of
religion.
Il
will meet the needs of all genera
| lions, any more than one cart-rut will
meet the needs of present day We
hicles. Tolstoi made famous argu-
ment against the church, boldly claim
| ing that it had lost it's function, and
that the world of today needed a new
source of nourishment. He would bark
back to the simple teaching of Jesus.
| hi he Cd Af a
church like the one he knew, and just
his remedy is the remedy Of Baptists
the simple word of Christ. He would
have made a pretty good Baptist!
| Among fourteen errors of life" as
set forth recently by Judge Rentoul
before the Bartholomew Club of Lon
don are those:
ITO expect to set up our own stand
ard of right and wrong and expect
everybody to conform to it.
| To expect uniformity of opinion in
this world.
| To believe only what our finite
minds can grasp"
The kind of fasting that is unques-
toned by the world and acceptable tc
God.
There is that in the gospel which
|
is easily understood by all men, and
when taught in simplicity Jew and
Gentle respond gratefully to 1t. That
gospel for all men comes with mini
mum of formal observance and e
maximum Of daily practice. 1t is OBJ
viously better to do more than YOU
promise than less. Tolstoi was aroused
to righteous indignation by the stu
pendous assumptions of the Greel
church in Russia, which, he says, In
stead of teaching the gospel Of Jesus
taught men how to evade that simple
system. It was a religion with ichon!
and feasts and fasts, and pomp anC
show, but had no heart, no morality
no humanity in IT.
A model church would also have II
its equipment parlors suitable fol
gathering of all members and friends
and they would often be open. Their
would of course be a suitable cuisine.
Such a church would also be aggres
sive in going into the highways ant
hedges after the lost, the distressed
and needy, and keep busy all the time
This work could be done best perhaps
as 1t is being done in large cities b.
each church or denomination havin!
it's hospital, and its mission schools il
which the Bible is taught many chill
dren not now in any school, and VIII
will never be until we go after them.
Such a church, instead Of ancien
dignity, would visit the jails and hos
pitfalls, holding service Sunday after
moons.
In the services would be life an,