Article July 11, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from T. Rhondda Williams, C. A. Henderson

[T. Rhondda Williams in The Christian World, London.]

I believe we are now on the threshold of a spiritual movement of a unique kind that will put us in possession of an experience which will make all our particular knowledges and sciences and philosophies look very small things. I believe the great inheritance of man in the twentieth century will be spiritual. No doubt there will be great material changes. The present socialistic movement is a prophecy of that, but these material changes will be outshone by the wealth of the spiritual inheritance. It is for this that we all need to prepare ourselves. There is a wedding garment without which no man sits down at this feast—purity, humility, trustfulness in the higher intimations of the soul, surrender of the will to the highest, and the uninterrupted flow of good will toward all mankind, are indispensable qualifications. By the want of these we shut out the inflow of the divine life. How to be receptive is the thing we now most need to know if we would enter into the real blessedness of religion. When we enter there we shall know things as the musician knows harmony and as the artist knows beauty. The great certainties of religion are experiences of undeniable good, and a man dwells within them as in a strong tower which no enemies can successfully assail.

[The Congregationalist.]

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