The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-19

state of dls-unity: we could not expect
to accomplish a reunion in five months
or five years. 1t might take a cen
fury, but that was no reason why we
shouldn't do all that could be done
now Christian unity must commence
In the home; the very purpose of the
gospel was to breed out all the anti
social instincts and to develop that
divine nature which we share in com
mon with Jesus. No amount of pub
licity and big organization can take
the place of this. We were looking
therefore, not for intellectual uniform
ity; "the truth itself is infinitely larg-
er than any church ever conceived it,"
we must expect and welcome diversity
of conception and method and form,
and thank God for real differences for
they demonstrate the variety of life.
The way to unity was through COM
prehension, not through reduction of
our faith to the lowest common mea-
sure.
The speaker said he rejoiced in the
contribution to the common cause
which was made by the Methodist, the
Presbyterians, the Baptist and other
bodies. Each according to its genius
had gift to offer. The mischief
came early when every sect became
self sufficient, condemnatory of others
and unwilling to admit that God is in
finitely larger than the little minds
of men,
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Sunday was a good day. The Sun
day school went over the 500 mark
the parish schools reached 101, so
that the total attendance was 610. Rev.
Paul Green, associate pastor preached
to a house full of people on Sunday
morning. His subject, ''The Steward
ship of Possession" was we'll treated.
He also preached at Viola and at Gin
ton Grange Hall to good congrega-
lions. The pastor DIR. Perry, preached
at Joel in the morning, Evergreen in
the afternoon and took part in the
celebration on Sunday night.
On Sunday night the house was well
filled to listen to laymen tell of the
struggles and success of the prohibi-
ton fight. DR.. w. A. Allen, Mrs. EN-
ma Urquhart, w. F. Morgareidge and
John Nisbet all spoke interestingly on
different phases of the subject.
Unity Essay No. 2.
This is the second of a series of
eight brief essays put out by the
Episcopal church in connection with !
heir Octave of prayer for christian
nifty.
Members of all churches are invited |
o give thought and prayer to the I
ubject as suggested day by day in the
Star Mirror.
Il seek not my own will, but the
will of the Father which hath sent me.
J. John v, 80.
Our divisions arose, and are being
erpetuated. by the pride and diversity
nd instability of the human will.
Unite man has undertaken to delimit
he relation of God to the world and,
4 the pride of his elf-opinion, has
AIRED to act as if to him had been en-
rusted the whole counsel of the AL
nightly, and as if God were shut in to
his or that particular means for the
Aviation of the world Hence we
ave sought our own will, not Gods,
nd our prayers for unity are too
ften, in substance, only that God will
ring the world to agree with US.
Prayer IS not to bend Gods will to {
1rs, but to bring our wills into har-
lony with His, and we can pray only {
lat God will manifest to US the unity !
e wills and give us grace to follow q
Let US pray: That Gods will may r
done on earth as it is in heaven.