Article April 16, 1910 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Lyman Abbott

[Christian Register.]

Thinking men discredit not only the old claim that the minister, representing the church, speaks with a superhuman authority, but they discredit the view of religion which is usually associated with that claim. They no longer regard religion as coming into the world from an extra-mundane source. God is at home in this world, and religion is a natural function of normal human life. The knowledge, then, which the modern minister should possess is a thorough knowledge of the phase of life represented by the broadest meaning of the word "religion." In this he is to be a specialist. He is to be a master in the field of religious experience and religious thinking, in the field of the spiritual life, in the field of the application of religion to practical life. These fields are one field. The world of thinking men listens to the man who knows: in religion it listens to the man who knows.

[Universalist Leader.]

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