Article September 30, 1905 Issue

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The moral consciousness of the world lies fallow for the call of one who shall be so filled with the power of the Spirit that he shall be completely indifferent to that whole mass of stuff which criticism is discrediting, and who shall dare to make his appeal to the moral idealism of mankind independent of verbiage. Here lies the path the new age must travel, straight through the wilderness of doubt and sin to the naked soul of humanity, which cannot and will not reject Jesus when he is brought to it in the nakedness of his own spiritual beauty. That Man, that Master, that love so tender and true will yet some day triumph over the halting, compromising arguments of doubting disciples, and the intellectual agnosticism of the world, with the charm and insistence and inspiration which will ever go forth in human experience from his great heart and faith. We shall keep our faith in Jesus when the last word of criticism has done its perfect work in making clear the difference between the immortal message of the Son of Man and the man-made arguments to prove that message true. When logic loses its clue to the divine Life, the soul will find it hid within its own deep hunger after righteousness and love.—The Universalist Leader.

Do we need such a religion?—a religion whose first article is the translation of the Gospel into daily life, a religion whose primary task is the practice of Jesus Christ? It seems to us that we do need it—that it is the overwhelming need. It seems to us pitiful that so many are missing the real issue and are on the wrong side of the battle. But truth always wins and it is only a question of time when the thoughtful and honest will see and will say "amen." The greatest epoch of Christianity is just ahead.

The American Friend.

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