Article October 21, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from U. S. Milburn, Charles G. Ames

[Rev. U. S. Milburn in Universalist Leader.]

Jesus is becoming more and more a real and vital fact in the affairs of the world. Not the Christ of dogma evolved by the church, but the lovable Jesus of history revealed in the gospels. The influence which he has exerted, the love which he has revealed, the precepts which he taught, the tenderness which he manifested, the justice which he unflinchingly administered, the hope which he reflected, the faith divine which he instilled, are greater forces in the world at this moment than at any time in the remote or immediate past.

He who is abreast with the times, who keeps pace with unfolding truth, who adjusts himself to the new thought-center, hears and can interpret the language of the day, has no difficulty as to his faith in religion. He lets go of the good past with joy, to grasp the better present. Questions of the past are nothing to him; he identifies himself with the new issues, problems, work. He has not only a new speech, but a new religion—forever old, but reborn with each generation of men, a divine reincarnation, each stage more beautiful and useful. He has cause for rejoicing, rather than occasion for complaint. He sees that "new occasions teach new duties;" his religion expands; his vision is clarified; his horizon is enlarged and rimmed with a rosy light of hope sublime.

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