Article September 24, 1904 Issue

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with contributions from John M. Wilson

One's creed is not always the final test of one's religion. The widow who ostensibly worshiped Baal was better than her creed. She showed that by the beautiful trustfulness and generosity of her nature. God judges not by the detail of ceremonial observance, but by the essential spirit. The Christian Advocate.

"The final expression of life," says a writer in The New York Observer, "is not a question-mark, but a spiritual affirmation. The true life is framed in positives, not negatives. The search must end in a finding. The truth of the whole matter was, with a fine moral and philosophical insight, divined by Augustine ages ago, when he said. Thou, O Lord, hast made the soul of man for thyself, and man's soul is fore er restless until it rests in Thee.' "

It occurs to almost every one who takes pains to run over the main facts in the history of the Christian Church, that most of the heresies that, at various periods, have divided and weakened Christian forces, can be traced to a lack of a sense of proportion in the minds of devout men. They have seen one or two things so clearly that they have failed to see that other things were also true. Doubtless it is not given to any one mind to hold all the truth in exact poise and proportion, but the nearer the human mind can approach this ideal the nearer it comes to the truth. The Apostle Paul exhorts the believers at Rome to prophesy "according to the proportion of the faith." And that is a counsel which good men have often forgotten.

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