Article March 25, 1905 Issue

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with contributions from Ozora S. Davis

Dr. Campbell Morgan, in the London Daily Chronicle, gives his impressions of the way the American people understand and practice religion. He found in his experience in this country a widespread indifference in the matter of personal religion, which he attributed in part to the want of positive leadership. While ministers have been speculative and uncertain the people have become indifferent, but Dr. Morgan has seen signs everywhere of an awakening to the importance of direct evangelistic work, and he believes that "if the Church does but know her day and opportunity, America is on the eve of a great religious revival. In the broadest sense of the word, I do not hesitate to affirm that the American people are in their deepest life a religious people. Deep down in the national soul, beneath all the indifference and speculation, is a profound sense of God and man's obligation to Him. It is the continuity until this hour of the Puritan strain." —The Congregationalist.

I we keep in mind a regal throne, like that of an earthly monarch, only more magnificent, as befits the Deity — a celestial palace, a train of angelic courtiers — and then place Christ on a far-away throne at the right hand of such a God, sitting in regal majesty, we not only remove him from us in distance and in sympathy and communion, but we externalize and materialize the entire character and functions both of him and his Father. But if we think of the Omnipresent God, everywhere revealing Himself — the Immanent Deity, resident as the Holy Spirit in His worlds and in the hearts of His creatures; and if we think of His throne as being the center of His manifestations to whomsoever beholds Him, we shall be saved from many an erroneous view which separates us from Him and His Son.

Western Christian Advocate.

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