Article March 6, 1902 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from Washington Gladden, F. G. Peabody, Henry A. Manning, J. W. Miller

If this is the whole of the religious life,—to know God as our friend and the friend of all men, and to enter into that mutual friendship with which He evermore seeks to bless us,—then other things will surely follow. We cannot be friends with Him who is the friend of all, unless we are friends with all. "To come into friendship with God," says Professor King, "is really to share His life; but the very life of God is love, self-giving, pouring himself out into the life of His creatures. To share His life, therefore, is necessarily to enter into like loving relationss with all men. The second commandment thus inevitably grows out of the first. A deepening friendship with God, therefore, includes right relations with men: the religious life is ethical in its very nature and from the start. And thus once more it is seen to be impossible to come into right personal relation to God, and not at the same time to come into right relation to all moral beings."

Prof. Washington Gladden, D.D.
In The Christian Register.

The independent, having pointed out what it conceives to be the dangers of liberal and of conservative theology, prints in its last number an article on the way of escape from these dangers. The concern and anxiety, it says, seem chiefly to attend the coming in of liberal theology, and yet it regards the coming of such theology as certain. . . .

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