Article July 30, 1910 Issue

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with contributions from Charles S. Kay

[Charles S. Kay in Standard.]

That Christianity in its essence is the ultimate religion, the writer firmly believes; but as to what truly constitutes real Christianity it is possible, and even probable, that the conceptions of men may change in the future as they undoubtedly have changed in the past. There is no instinct of the human mind stronger than the desire to be able to put the stamp of finality on religious belief. In the matter of religion as a thing of mere intellectual belief, men will doubtless differ as long as the world stands. So long as religion is conceived of as being the acceptance of a set of intellectual opinions, couched in a certain phraseology, there will be no absolute uniformity of religion in the world. If the essence of religion is to be found in a certain unselfish attitude of heart, and a desire to help others and to be and do right oneself, there are evidences even now that mankind is getting together on these points. If it can be strongly entrenched in the innermost being of a man that before a great, all-wise, and all-good Being he must stand or fall, and not through the interference of any other human being like himself, a great advance has been made in the moral status of that man. Add to this belief the doctrines that are the very life of evangelical Christianity, and minor differences, built on human conceptions and on doubtful interpretations, will not materially disconcert the sincere seeker after truth and goodness. The religion of tomorrow will approach this conception of belief and conduct. In spirit and ethics it will be the Christian religion as we now have it; in creedal statement and in verbal phraseology it will change with the ages as they roll along.

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