Article September 6, 1900 Issue

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The New-Church Messenger says: "On a foggy morning the landscape is covered and only a few things are visible. An atmospheric curtain drops down and the hills, the horizon, everything a few feet away is x-cluded. Our world is very small indeed, and the objects visible can almost be counted upon one's fingers. Suddenly the sun breaks through, the mists roll back, and the enraptured eyes sweep over a country that transcends anything the most powerful glass could have revealed before. At once a complicated creation seems called into being. More is seen than before—and yet so much less in proportion to what there is to be seen. The land has been draped in a robe of light. The figure holds in relation to great men, great books, the great universe—and more than all, of the great God.

In a discourse on "Forgiveness," a writer in the New York (Methodist) Christian Advocate says: "The unforgiving spirit is a source of much evil. 'I have known,' says Dean Farrar, 'a man nurse the tiny cockatrice of unforgiveness till it had burst into the fiery serpent of crime.' The exercise of the forgiving spirit is a specific against the worst passions of the human heart—malice, hate, anger, spite, revenge, murder; and it is God alone who can enable us to perfect such a spirit by the indwelling of His all-conquering spirit of love."

Charles S. Kay, in an article in the (Baptist) Standard on "Dialectics or Impulsion?" says: "Much in current literature which occupies the mind and time of mankind is as husks and shavings for food. Books upon books are written to serve as mere time-killers for aimless readers, or as mediums for the display of fruitless dialectics. Public addresses and sermons, not calculated to impel the hearer to do anything, are delivered by the score—mere animadversions on things possibly true, but unimportant if true."

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