The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-11-08
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BY REV. ID. J. QUILL.AN

flood couldn't have happened that
way" and THE Old Testament God
never had an Inspiration of his Own"
In Harold Begbie's Lady Next
Door he says: Il "a compelled to
admit that / had greatly misjudged
the Church. So beautiful il the In
fiucnce of the Church, SO altogether
sincere and attractive is the spiritual
life OF the Church, that ] for one.
rather than lift a finger to disturb IL.
like the man in the parable would
stand tar off, bow my head upon my
breast, and utter the honest prayer,
God be merciful to me u sinner"
Has the reader ever found a more
forceful vindication of the Religion
of Christ i'm the works of any of the
modern apologists, than I'm these
trenchant and sincere dicta OF the
author of 1.-The Lady Next Door," OF
course 1t is always easier to make the.
sincere and simple tas all great men
are) see the truth than the man who
is half educated. What Begbie has
accomplished each man and woman
can accomplish. Difficulties are not
overcome when they are shirked. The
more the great natione know Of each
other, the better friends they will be.
How can that happen? 1t can happen
only by Graduating hate and sowing
the gosel seed of the love of Christ.
Leaders OF opinion cannot act intel
llgehtly unless they ithink clearly.
and they cannot think clearly unless
they love their neighbors whom they
see in order that they may love the
God they don't see Il the habeas
corpus is the palladium of our liber-
ties the love Of Christ Is the hope OF
our peace. To be peaceful we must
love, and to love we must understand.
1t all implies change.
Now. Christianity is the greatest
moral problem of the day, and because
she is the greatest she shares the
greatest praise and blame. Among the
irreligious we see today, a spiritual
desert where the hot sun OF the unaid-
ed intellect parches the life OF the
soul Its shifting sands of negation
are swept by the burning sands OF
license We may be individually pro-
gressive in America but we are col
lectively backward. Our criminal
statistics are being aired we'll now
after the Bar Association meeting. But
New York will continue to be fifteen
times more criminal than London un-
less the people change and value NOR
al problems as Begbie says they do.
No sane man has much confidence In
statutory remedies. The great legal
reforms of Jeramy Bentham we're
brought about under the pressure of
public opinion. In reform, political
or religious, a Fabius can never con
quer a Hannibal.
Prejudice and hate never immortal
ize men. Had Canon Sheehan only
written THE Blindness Of Doctor
Grey he would never live with US
today. AS Dickens appeals most to
our sympathy through his love for
mankind land especially little child
rem like little Nell and little Dorrit)
so does Sheehan live because of his
love for mankind irrespective Of creed
or color. my New Citrate" displays
his keen sense of justice Che believed
what Horace Piunkett said that Irish
history was written for E~nglishmen
to read and Irishmen to forget") as
surely as does the Graves Of Kilmor-
ma which. in the light OF recent hap
penings might we'll De regarded az
prophetic. II people today are inter-
ested in moral problems, as indeed
they are, they cant refuse to make
a systematized study OF Christianity.
Christianity was the first and will be
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