Article March 30, 1907 Issue

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with contributions from Charles Roper

[Rev. Charles Roper, B. A., in The Christian Life,. London, England.]

Let me tell you what I thing religion truly is. It is a felt dependence upon a higher power than one's own; a recognition that the power behind all and in all must be infinite; that it is not blind and unconscious, but works intelligently; that Love is the dominant Principle, and not hate, otherwise there would be hell established everywhere to-morrow, and devils stalking the earth to curse it instead of angels to bless it; that this power is the source of all that is, matrix, Father; that though the human finite mind cannot conceive of this perfectly, yet imagination and reason working in conjunction raise up ideals of love and truth and mercy and goodness which are approximately as attributes of that power which, for the want of better name, we call God. Immediately a whole scheme of duties opens out. As soon as a man pictures an ideal, dreams of good higher than his own, his duty is to strive to attain it. Hence you have man's constant search for God. [The Christian Register.]

Good will between classes, good will of the heartiest and truest kind may be established; but it will rest on justice rather than on sentiment. It will not take money from the poor man's pocket to build him an opera house. For there is only one ground of exact equality in this curiously devised world; that is, by doing to others as we would that others should do to us. Here we find the great bill of human rights and obligations where the richest and the poorest may meet heart to heart. No difference of culture, training, association, or habits can change this level. Slowly, painfully, the world is working toward this ideal. In the struggle it involves human beings are shaped to be instruments in the evolution of the race. [The Universalist Leader.]

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