Article April 8, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Adolph Roeder, Charles Clark Pierce

[Adolph Roeder in New-Church Messenger.]

The church is not a building built of stones and bricks. That is a house of worship, a temple, a synagogue, a tabernacle. The real church is in men's deeds and thoughts. It lives in the keeping of the commandments Sunday and every day of the week. The real church is built of things men do on Monday, of things men think on Tuesday, of things men love and wish on Wednesday. The church is a church of every day, not alone of Sunday. It is a grievous mistake to make, this mistake of the Syrain, that God is a God only inside a certain building and that the rest of the world belongs to the devil. The fact is the devil owns no property at all. All things are God's. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." There is no room for any one else in ownership. And God is a God of the hills, of the highest, and He is a God of the valleys, of the lowest. If you ascend into heaven He is there, and if you make your bed in hell, lo! He is there. Men must serve God on the hills, of course ; but they must serve Him in the valleys, equally, of course. Make other mistakes, if you will, but do not make the mistake of the Syrian that God is a God of the hills, and not of the valleys.

[Christian Register.]

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