Milford chronicle., 1932-03-11

va Wells and son Billy motored t,
: Georgetown on Sunday and spen
the day with Mr.. and Mrs. Georg,
Walls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac F. Warren, Sr.
had the pleasure of entertaining
their son, Isaac T.. Warren, Jr., O
Wilmington, over the weekend.
Religion
What is true religion? This ques.
tiOn is often asked. We must search
the Bible for a positive answer t.
this question. The modern way o.
thinking will not, we fear, answer
this question satisfactorily. We can.
not with safety to ourselves, decry
a portion of the scriptures, and then
twist and warp the remainder to
suit the way some people are liv-
ing. The modern preachers of today
who deny any part of the scriptures
are taking upon themselves a heavy
responsibility, when leading women
and men into the same paths which
they are following.
If one part of the Bible is true,
why not the other? Who was dele
gated to have the right to take one
item from any part of the word of
God?
We must confess that our belief
in the Bible is of that nature, we
look to it for guidance when we are
/ travelling toward the home of the
/ soul. 1t is the only safe way; it is
/ the way our fathers and mothers
trOd way back in the years past AMI
gOne. It gave them peace and com
fort, and today we w0ui1 do well
to harken back to the times when
women and men were stalwarts in
the service of God. The old time re-
ligiOn was of the kind that brought
so much happiness to believers,
while today the religion professed
by the modernists doesn't bring hap
piness to any one. The modern way
of living may do in this world but
what about the time of departure
for an unknown land? Will it be eff
fectual in admitting the modernists
through the gates which stand ON
the outside of the City where Jesus
dwells?
We must, if the Bible is true, turn
to it to solve the question: What is
true religions"
Jesus answer to the Pharisee law
yer when He said: Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart.
and with all thy soul and with all
thy mind.
rnIfe. 30, Erasf mud
mandment. And the second is like
unto it: Thou shalt loye thy neigh
Dor as thyself.
This would seem to solve the
question "What is true religion" but
we must go further
James says: Pure legion and un-
defiled before God and the Father is
this, To visit the fatherless and wild
ows in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the world.
Paul says to the Corinthians:
Therefore if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature; old things are
passed away; behold, all things are
become new.
Micah, the prophet, says: He has
showed thee, o man what is good;
and to do justly and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God.
Does this solve the question
what is true religion? Does the
religion which the modernists pro-
fess, measure up to the above Je-
quirements?
Let's see what others say: True |
religion is not what man see and |
admire; it is what God sees and |
loves; the faith which clings to
Jesus in the darkest hour; the sane
tity which shrinks from the ap- |
proach of evil; the humility which
lies low at the feet of the Redeemer,
and washes them with tears; the |
love which welcomes every sacri-
flee; the cheerful conservation of all !
the powers of the soul; the worship
which, rising above all outward
forms, ascends to God in the sweet
est, dearest communion-a worship
often too deep for utterance, and
then which the highest heaven
knows nothing more sublime-Rich-
ard Fuller.
1t has been said that true religion
will make a man more thorough
gentleman than all the courts of Eu-
rope. And it is true. You may see
simple, laboring men as thorough
gentlemen as any duke. simply be-
cause they learned to fear God; and
fearing Him, to restrain themselves,
which is the very root and essence
Of all good breeding.-Rev. C. King
sley.
Religion is as necessary to reason
as reason is to religion. The one
,annot exist without the other. A
being would lose his rea-
son in attempting to account for the
great phenomena of nature, had he
not a Supreme Being to refer to;
and well has it been said, that if
here had been no God, mankind
would have been Obliged to imagine
)ne.-Washington.
Let us with caution indulge the
that morality can be
without religion. What
ever may be conceded to the infu-
ence of refined education on minds
)f peculiar structure, reason and
experience both forbid us to expect
hat natural morality can prevail in
exclusion of religious principle
The heart hungerS for something
,ital and gripping in religion. Some
hing that will meet the need of the
;Oul within and fha life without