The Penn's Grove record., 1916-06-02
THE RELIGION OF DEMOCRACY
Principles and Truth With the
Good Spirit Which Moves the
World Along, The Supreme
Aim In Life

In last weeks issue we quoted a prom
Inent Friend who said: Each genera
tion must serve its generation in it's
W way" Also another famous preach
err said: Every man paints his own
picture of Cod"
The Pagans in ancient times made i'm
ages and symbols TO give visible NANTES
tations to different ideals of body. MIND
and heart, but the Jews the fathers of
our religious faith. were not worshippers
Of images. There was given to them a
moral code of laws for their conduct and
dealings with each other They erected
memorials of events and Tabernacles in
which the laws were kept and preached.
When Jesus of Nazareth came to earth
he added to the Mosaic laws the Sermon
on the Mount which contains the higher
conceptions of the ways of living and he
showed by his exemplary manner the
way of life. He never said, ''Worship
me-" but told his disciples to follow
me-" His prayer is for the coming of
the kingdom of God, as in heaven so on
earth.
Emerson, a famous writer on Spiritual
laws says: "a mutual understanding is
ever the firmest chain"
1t is different conceptions Of God and
the lack of mutual understanding that
causes all religious controversies and all
wars. All words were formulated to
convey some thought in one persons
mind to another person. The word Jes-
US, means help of Jehovah, (Hebrew
word for Cod, hence saviour The
xrna1 (bn, - 1-,1z - ~ T.11I.
word "chrisma,' which was an oil or
cream to the ancients' minds. The Lat
ms made the word chreme, then drop
ped the h and made it creme. The
word Christ and the English word
cream" had the same Greek origin and
means the choicest unguent oil which
was used in baptism by the ancients.
Jesus of Nazareth, being baptized
with the Spirit of God (which has the
same meaning as the Anglo-Saxon word
"good') was proclaimed the Messiah ex-
pected by the jews. who believed in d.
vine principles and were not the worship
pers of images nor men. The word de-
noting the material substance is taken
to mean the spiritual.
The book of st. Matthew was written
for the enlightenment of the Jews. 1t
contains the lineal Jewish ancestry of
Jesus. and the only book which contains
the divine principles, the Sermon On the
Mount, as proclaimed by him. The book
of Mark was written for the Greeks;
st. Luke for the Romans. and st. John
for Christians.
Those who followed the teaching of
Jesus of Nazareth, called Christ, be-
cause of being baptized with the super
Tor mind and spirit which the a~ncients
believed only the gods possessed, were
called in derision, christians" The
followers of John Wesley were called in
derision, "Methodists," because of their
m~ethodical form of worship.
When the Christians appealed to the
Pagan minds who had an image for q
god of worship a visible substitute and
a sign had to be given because it is diff
icult for illiterate minds to conceive OF
political or religious principles unless
~personiied in a person. Very few have
any knowledge of the conditions where
and when those divine principles were
applied in s%criptural times, which are
non-essential today. Hence there is 81
much prevalent and irreverant preach
ing, especially by sensational ~evangellst'
who nave a publicity to exploit theil
personal interests for profit, and sub
ordinate the preaching of absolute trutl
and divine principles.
The preaching of the ancestry of Jes
us and his miraculous birth. the imnor'
atty of ancient kings of the Jews, thu
c~rucifxion of Jesus and the preachin;
r Il ne .oa..6an 70 taGa fha plaap n
the human sacrifice of the worshippers o
the sun god and the sacrifice OF a iaml
or bullock by the ancient Jews. is non
essential in this age, but of great histor
&c interest.
Jesus began preaching the gospe
(good story of the kingdom of God
Mark |: IA. In John 4: % he said
God is a Spirit. and they that worship
him must worship in spirit and L
truth After telling ancient histor,
many give very little information on di
vine principles and less on absolut
truth. separate from relative facts o
incidents.
The emotional evangelists become tn
god of many and the giving OF larg
amounts to them to live in affiuenee ma,
) be giving to the god of their conceptlol
of mind. Because of their false coneep
ton and the failure to impress that Co
is the personal living of divine primer
! pal with a spirit that moves the wori
: along" not as much lasting results ar
manifested as expected from those WI
Ito use Bishop Berry's words) are forag
ing on the churches and are forming al
organization of their own to MAINTAIN
their personal interests.
When Jesus sent out the seventy n
i, said: whatsoever house We enter, sa,
Peace be to this house, eat and dram
! such things as are set before you, TO
|, the labourer is worthy of his hire
Saint Paul told Titus that Bishop
ought not be greedy of filthy lucre."
! A noted writer in comparing Jon
, Wesley, the crusade religious agita<or
, the founder of Methodism, and job
! Woolman, the quiet Quaker social re
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