Article October 3, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Charles Johnston, Llewellyn Brown

[Charles Johnston in The Christian Register.]

To put the matter in a more modern way, Jesus taught, not a dogmatic religion, but an experimental science; and, until one has made the experiments, one cannot come into possession of the facts of this science. Jesus states this truth with equal simplicity: "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God." As the first experiments, so to say, of this real spiritual science are renunciation and self-sacrifice, it is not to be wondered at, though it is to be deplored, that later generations of disciples found it easier to reason than to obey, and so converted the living, spiritual science of Jesus into a binding and continuing dogmatic theology. The remedy is simple. We must carefully gather and learn the commandments of the Master, and then in love obey them, and we shall soon verify for ourselves the superb scientific accuracy of these teachings of spiritual science. The awakened spiritual will, not the argumentative mind, is the golden key of wisdom.

[Zion's Herald.]

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