Article February 9, 1907 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from John E. McFadyen

[Zion's Herald.]

We have come to an age when we do not talk very much about these deepest and holiest loves and longings, to be sure; but then, what is is not necessarily the measure of what ought to be. At the end of his brooding over the problem the pastor knew that there was only one way in which the gulf could be bridged, and Mrs. Culture and Mrs. Artisan find common ground. It would not be by obliterating present barriers; it would be by opening new avenues of fellowship. It would be simply by the revival in both hearts of the living experience of the apostolic age. Let both women once become sure of their Master, absorbed in his service, aware of their fellowship with him, and they would suddenly discover something to talk about. There would be no cant in it, no reserves. It would be the comradeship of the upper room long ago, repeated sweetly and naturally in modern life. When the primary Christian experience is revived, the Christian people of every rank and class will have something in common. Not until then. Social devices are in vain. The fellowship of the Church rests upon the common Christian experience of its living members.

[The Universalist Leader.]

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