Article May 24, 1913 Issue

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[The Universalist Leader.]

The looking and the longing of souls in every age for the coming of Christ can find satisfaction if the eyes are open. But mostly we see and do not perceive; we hear and do not understand. Throughout the ages, those who have looked for the coming of his physical presence have looked in vain, and yet there has been no year in which he has not come, and never more fully than today, when through a thousand channels he is coming into the life of the hour. There are those who get impatient with the continual sounding of his name, because so many have made the calling of "Lord, Lord!" the burden and body of their religion. But who can look into the better life of the living and not see how more and more the Christ is coming into it? Those who in ignorance or independence omit him from their message, even those who in antagonism denounce him, but who give themselves in loyal service to the uplift of humanity, are opening the door through which he comes and manifests himself in the new relations among men. The writers of the gospels were simply translators of the life of Jesus to the people of their time, and the preachers and teachers and doers of good in all succeeding ages have been the translators of his spirit and character into the life of their own time. And one has but to read Christian history to become prophetic and see the time when "every knee shall bow," and "every tongue shall confess" that Jesus is Lord, to the glory of the Father.

[The Christian Intelligencer.]

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