Article July 10, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

R. F. Johonnot with contributions from J. C. Jaynes, J. Estlin Carpenter, W. P. Du Bose

[Rev. R. F. Johonnot, D.D., in Universalist Leader.]

Primitive Christianity made its rapid progress, unquestionably, because it gave practical service. It held out to the poor and oppressed its kingdom of the saints, wherein the proud were to be humbled and the lowly exalted. It had its gospel of love, also, and its spiritual values; nor are they to be denied to these modern movements which are now making headway. But the practical, temporal values play a great part in them as in primitive Christianity. The modern church must be able to help life on its practical and material side; to make the individual happier, healthier, more prosperous because of its faith and ministry. It must show how, through its help, husband and wife are knit together, the family life made sweet, the work of daily life made to yield its just returns. Along these lines of unity of effort, in the discarding of non-essential forms and faith, in the giving of its place to art in the cultivation of noble emotions, in the aim of saving society as a whole and not merely its individual units, in the creation of a true social order upon earth, in the giving of practical help to men, will the course of the new reformation of the church run.

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