Article October 24, 1903 Issue

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We gradually come to understand, as life advances, that happiness and misery—all the phases of existence, in fact—are states, conditions, attributes of mind; and from this point of view a "better world" is of less importance. . . . Jesus preached the immediate coming of the kingdom, and it is not surprising that he was misunderstood. The people stood gazing up into heaven for a portent, while the earth lay fallow all about them. It seems bold and rash, perhaps, to declare that, if we live rightly for this world, lead the divine life here, the other, where it lies open to speculation, is of little consequence to us. The religious sphere is present, not absent; here, not there; now, and not in the future.—The Christian Register.

Rev. Edwin J. Chaffee says in The Universalist Leader, "Religion is, then, spiritual daring to live on and to believe on in the line of the highest revealed to us, and to let this master affection, will, imagination, till it bodies forth to us the things eye hath not yet seen, nor ear heard, neither the mind conceived. Not to be capable, therefore, of making the abiding sense of these highest experiences of the spirit the dominant key-note of at least a part of our lives, and the ground of passionate trust in a transcendent higher yet, means a doom, strong as fate, of absolute exclusion from free and full communion with the loftiest spirituality of the ages."

True religion is not what men think of God and truth, but what God has revealed of Himself to men. The fatal fallacy of the evolutionary theory as applied to the development of the knowledge of God among the Hebrews, is that it ascribes to an earthly origin what, in the nature of things, could have come only from heaven. That there was a gradual unfolding of the truth by successive revelations is apparent to the most casual reader of the Old Testament. But this was not evolution.—The Examiner.

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