FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from John Hunter, Anson R. Graves, Clayton R. Bowen, William McKinley

[Interior.]

It has actually come to pass that the outcry of the world is against all who sin in high station; the condemnation of humanity lies on such as pervert their rulership to bring ill to the people; the outcry of universal protest shakes those whose money is coined out of the blood-sweat of the oppressed. The twentieth century is giving substance to more hopes and dreams than any century that went before it. Much it has done. More it promises. All and everything it licenses men to anticipate. The man alive today lives when it is possible to expect every good thing for humanity—possible to believe in every success for justice, truth, and right—possible to work for the ultimate good with the cheer of a close-range confidence.

[Christian Work and Evangelist.]

Christianity is many things. It is the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Master of one's life and the doing of his will in passionate devotion to him. It is to hold the religion Jesus held and taught, the fatherhood of God, the oneness of man with the Father, the brotherhood of man, God's free forgiveness of our sins. It is the altruistic life, as opposed to the self-centered life. It is the looking at life through Christ's eyes, having the mind of Christ, holding his philosophy of life. It is surely the imitation of all the qualities and characteristics of his nature, the adoption of his spirit as the rule of life.

[Rev. John Hunter, D.D., in Universalist Leader.]

To Jesus his church was to be no exclusive body. It was to have its limits, but these were to be the natural limits of spiritual affinity and sympathy. He recognized his brethren in all who had a kindred spirit. The only principle of religious union which he acknowledged, and which has been so long and strangely ignored, is contained in the words, "Whosoever shall do the will of my Father, which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." His flock is truly and deeply one wherever it is scattered but the folds are many.

[The Rt. Rev. Anson R. Graves, Bishop of Kentucky, in Churchman.]

I think we have made a mistake in the past by dwelling too much upon what we imagine each branch of the church, or denomination, may have to surrender in order to attain church unity, and have dwelt too little upon the important things in which we are in substantial agreement, and not at all upon those things in which each denomination might possibly gain something by unity.

[Rev. Clayton R. Bowen in Christian Register.]

There is a spiritual fatherland of which we are all citizens, a spiritual heritage which we all share, a continuity of hallowed living and sacred tradition which it is our supreme privilege to hand on to them that come after us. Shall we laud national patriotism and have no sense of religious patriotism? Shall we have no heroes, no flags, no solemn days of memorial, in our life as men of religion?

[Rev. William McKinley, D.D., in Western Christian Advocate.]

Minds differentiated by nature, education, and environment see truth from different points of view and report what they have seen, and, notwishstanding apparent conflict, are all telling the truth, though none of them are telling it all, because none of them has it all.

[Standard.]

No amount of energy or ability or devotion will make up for the lack of a disposition saturated with the spirit of Jesus.

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