Article December 6, 1913 Issue

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with contributions from W. E. Orchard, James S. Kittell

[The Christian Work]

Religion must enter into life or it is nothing; and it must enter into the whole life. Every word, every act of Christ, was a protest against divorcing religion from life. Our lives cannot be divided up and portioned off into different compartments. If we are to be religious at all in the true sense, religion must be to us the motive power behind and beneath all else. It cannot be set apart as one of the activities of mind or heart or soul. The scope of its work must be universal. It must pervade the whole being. From within outward it must be supreme all along the line, moving the center of life, and tingling to the very finger-tips. It is this which explains our failure. We must confess to this much failure at least, that we do not have a constant sense of being God-directed, with all our paths made plain. It is because we have not acknowledged Him in all our ways; because we are keeping back part of the price. We have not given ourselves up entirely to His sway. We do not feel ourselves to be God-directed, because we are not God-possessed. It is not speculative atheism which we need fear for ourselves or others, but the practical ungodliness which keeps Him at a distance from the affairs of life. And so we miss the promise because we omit the conditions. "In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."

[The Universalist Leader]

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