The Republican journal., 1913-03-13

Remember the name-Doan's-a take NJ
other.
May we not learn from this that the
student in the labratory who discovers a
law of nature is truer follower OF
Christ than the protesting Christian who
gets up and proclaims to the world his
victories for the past week and his reso-
lutions for the coming week tifty-two
times in year. Can we discern Chris
tan act in the humblest voter who votes
to feed the hungry from the public treas
ury.
The prayer meetings of Christ were
mostly in the closet or in the mountain
alone, and when He came among the peo-
pie he came like Moses with the tables
of stone with something from the Father
to the people. How many today can
realize, like Webster, that every occasion
is momentous occasion and that all in
tellectual endowments should be aroused?
How many can appreciate the value of
his earnestness? A few in all ages have
had at least a slight conception of the
real dignity of human nature. This con-
ception is spreading among the people
with the growth of educational privi-
leges To the ignorant fisherman God
was comparatively small being. He is
to every person the biggest being he is
able to conceive of. Whatever our bust
ness in life there is as much in location
as in doing. l notice in the above
mentioned Friends Intelligencer an al
fusion to paying commissions to Teachers
Agencies. Now every county in the
west so far as | know employs Super
intendent of Schools who is glad to cor
respond with worthy teachers, especial
ly if he is short of that class of material.
All any teacher has to do to get in direct
communication with those needing teach
ers is to get county map of the several
States and practice what has been learn
ed in school. Securing position is just
as religious an act as any other The
trunk of tree is just as essential as the
leaves which spread themselves to the
sunlight to draw nourishment from the
atmosphere. People tell about eXclud-
ing religion from the public schools.
They might as we'll talk about excluding
sunlight from their homes. The very
act of chewing their food is religious
act and should be intelligently done ac-
cording to nature laws.
We do not expect an Infinite Father to
stand over US and direct every move
ment but we are given deg1 &c of intel
ligence susceptible of infinite develop
ment and expected to direct our acts ac-
cording to one code of laws from the
time we swallow the first nourishment
until we drop the body back to earth.
People use words with an outgrown
meaning. 1t is rot religion they want
TO exclude from their schools, but an out
grown superstition.
We are living in an age Of religious up
heaval. The time is not far distant if it
has not already come, when good works
will be considered Christian works, when
it will be considered that superintend-
ent of locomotive works is allowing God
to work through him more effectualIy
and more in accordance with Christ's
teachings than the man who rolls on the
floor in the ecstacles of an emotional
paroXism Christ himself never was ac-
cusad of being drunken, but his early fol-
lowers We're. Early editions of Web
ster's dictionary confined religion strict
" to the domain of feelings toward God.
Later editions of Webster transferred
religion to The domain of acts toward
God and man as taught in the Bible.
Other authorities have defined it as our
relations to God and man. A successful
farmer of the fifteenth century could not
get on very well today. The temperate
man of that age would hardly pass for
temperate man today. The Christian Of
that age would not be a very good Chris
tlan today.
These thoughts are written promscu-
ously as they occur to mind, hoping that
each may be of some benefit to someone
and no thought Of any injury to anyone.
Though some of these thoughts may hit
those who violate natures laws, either
through ignorance or otherwise, nothing
can harm those who DO right.
GEO. M. COLE.
Haddonfeld, N. j., Feb. IS, 1918.