Article January 2, 1904 Issue

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with contributions from F. E. Marble

We are not living on the past, eating up our spiritual partimony, beggars existing on the crusts left us by nobler ancestors. The world is better than it was in John Calvin's day. It is not growing worse. Its moral momentum is furnished by its Maker. His breath can make as His breath has made. By Him we are swept forward toward the light. We do need a restatement of the eternal verities. We do need a theology which is grounded on the Golden Rule. And we will get this in due season, if we faint not. Unhasting and unresting, the God of all flesh and all spirit is preparing the world for that day, out of whose richer experience, wider horizon, nobler growth another and grand formula of faith will come. And when it comes it will be no less vital and potent than the old, but it will be more beautiful and more merciful and more prophetic. But let us get things in their true order and relationship. The new formula of faith will not create the mood that creates it. Let us follow things to their true source. It is the life of God in the souls of men, it is the religious instinct of humanity, which casts upoward into life all formulas of faith, and furnishes the moral momentum of the world always, now, and evermore.

The Universalist Leader.

Of all the great matters before us to-day none compare in importance and interest to the fresh spiritual impulse coming to the Kingdom of God.

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