Article February 11, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Henry A. Atkinson, H. C. Ledyard, A. Lyle De Jarnette, R. J. Campbell, George Batchelor

[Christian Register.]

Brotherly love and loving-kindness has done more than we suspect to modify old creeds, expunge their harsh doctrines, so repugnant to upright minds, and bring in a reign of love which, still only in embryo, is growing and spreading everywhere by the contagion of example. And it seems not a Utopian and unreasonable belief that this reign of love, this kingdom of kindness and good will, shall accelerate its movement; and, as the spirit of democracy has spread to remote corners of the earth, so it, too, shall quicken its pace until the kingdom of God is no longer a vague and impossible dream, a vision of worlds unrealized, but an actual, tangible fact, a positive creation of the divine in the human. We await this manifestation of the sons of God in the world, not through miracle, not through new revelation or a new Messiah, but through the simplest yet noblest instincts of the heart of man. Here and now, just where we stand, in lowly place, in humble guise, we may begin to establish this kingdom, and to build the palace of the great king; and every act of unselfishness, every deed of true kindness, every thoughtful impulse for the good, the happiness, the delight of others, shall be as a shining stone in that palace, not builded by hands, but by that loving service to God that is self-forgetfulness, consecration, love, and obedience.

[Rev. Henry A. Atkinson in Advance.]

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