FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Herbert Welch

[The Christian Register.]

The generous thought of Jesus is becoming the thought of the world. His natural and homelike picture of heaven as a home and God as the Father of us all is too highly prized to pass out of human thought. Men are studying less than ever the evidence that the body of Jesus was raised to life again. More than ever they are convinced that his spirit was triumphant over death and the grave, and that for such as he life was so abundant that it was bound to escape accident and death. More than ever before men believe that the very spirit of his life, death, and victory are found in the words, "In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

[The Outlook.]

Our highest vision of love, our deepest insight into purity. our widest conception of life and growth, our divinest passion for perfection, our most joyful sense of freedom, our keenest delight in the play of thought, imagination, humor, our sweetest affections and most ardent service—it is these that lead the way to heaven and suggest its radiant happiness, its inexhaustible interest, its limitless growth, its perfect content in His presence who gave His children the gift of beauty as well as of righteousness: of variety, freedom, and gayety, as well as of purity, service, sacrifice.

[The Standard.]

Jesus' words of promise, affirmed and validated by his own resurrection, were not spoken that within the soul of man a new passion for immortality might be born, but that the eternal and deathless hunger, planted in the heart when man first came to be, might be satisfied by full assurance. Life and immortality have been brought to light. That which was dim has been made clear. The guesses and hopes of human hearts have been transformed into con

[The Congregationalist.]

Christianity has not done its perfect work in our hearts until we really love our neighbor as ourselves, and it cannot justify itself as the universal religion until its professed devotees make the world believe that they care as much about establishing justice in every relationship of man with man and of securing mercy for the weak and friendless, as they do about going to heaven themselves.

[The New York Observer.]

For the Christian believer every morning is a resurrection, and every Sabbath is an Easter. Jesus Christ is the Lord of Life, who could not himself be holden of death nor suffer corruption, and it is his blessed privilege and gracious will to give to as many as seek him and identify their fortunes with his, eternal life, which has its genesis now and its glorious fruition through unmeasured ages.

[The Christian Work and Evangelist.]

For no act of any sort can have lasting effect except as it is based upon the rights of the other man. No genuine religious advance is possible which does not put love to the neighbor where Christ put it.—side by side with the love of God and intrinsically one with the love of self.

Rev. Herbert Welch in the Western Christian Advocate.]

The need of the hour is to make the resurrection not simply a historical fact, accepted by the intellect as proved, but a real truth in the heart and conscience, manifested in a life surrendered to the dominion of a risen Lord and spent in the fellowship of a living Friend.

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