Article May 21, 1910 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Lyman Abbott

[British Congregationalist.]

In times like the present it seems to us that we have to judge things by their fruits and tendencies. The issue of constant criticism is unbelief, and unbelief threatens the finest flowers of civilization. If we could perfectly reconstruct the past, and solve every problem of origins, nothing would really be accomplished, unless some fresh divine power were brought thereby into life. What men really need is the power to lift and keep themselves above the animal plane. They are in constant danger of losing the soul, of extinguishing the tiny spark of divine light that glows within them, of becoming recreants to their own ideals and to the highest expectancies of God and man. They feel in themselves the pull of the earth and of the beast. Their cry is for liberation and for conquest. When truly awakened, they pant for forgiveness, for cleansing, for holiness, for God. How can they live in perfect obedience to the moral law revealed in conscience and in Christ? How can they bear up under pain and loss, and old age and death? How can they subdue the self-regarding instincts and live generously, even nobly, for men who repay goodness with contempt and the cross? These are some of the problems which every person has to face and solve.

[Lyman Abbott in Outlook.]

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