Article June 11, 1910 Issue

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Charles W. Burrowes

[Interior.]

Religion might have been revealed complete, fixed, final. The Bible might have been packed full of rigid legislation forestalling every human contingency. The Son sent to make known the Father might have put forth a symposium of systematic theology or an encyclopedia of canon law. But such is not the Bible we have. Its rigid commandments are but ten. Its supreme authority preaches not a science but a life—a life that grows. He does not exhaust truth; he tells learners that many things are left unspoken and promises them a Spirit to guide their further excursions into truth. That is to say, God has given to the world a religion whose great overrising landmarks are plain, sure, and immovable; whose Master will suffer no obedient soul to be lost from the mighty goal of the eternal fact; but, as the follower presses forward, pursuing that Master in faith and watching his great sentinel marks, many things are to be learned along the way. There is nothing to learn which contradicts or obscures the landmarks the traveler saw at the outset, but much appears to make the Master's purposes clearer, his insight into the affairs and nature of men more marvelous, and the opportunities of serving with him for the weal of the world more thrilling.

[Christian World.]

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