Article October 31, 1908 Issue

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with contributions from Willard H. Hinkley

[The Congregationalist and Christian World.]

The only liberalism that is worth while is that which frees the spirit for the fuller play of spiritual forces. The Revelator saw a "sea of glass, mingled with fire," which in a parable is that exceedingly rare combination, intellectual clarity with moral passion. A good deal of orthodoxy is all fire, all passion. And a good deal of liberalism is all glass, rationalism and nothing more, nor always clear at that. Indifference is worse than dogmatism, at least it has less life in it. Give us "neither poverty nor riches," neither the intellectual penury of men who have never learned to think, nor the burdensome intellectual opulence of men who can only think and are never satisfied with their thinking, and have lost sight of the great truth that "out of the heart are the issues of life." Liberty is nothing without life, and life is nothing without love, and love must ever find itself supremely in the cross of Jesus Christ.

[The Universalist Leader.]

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