Article October 6, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from George H. Parkinson, J. Frank Thompson

[Rev. George H. Parkinson, D.D., in Pacific Christian Advocate ]

All of our interests, both in the things that pertain to business and in the things that pertain to the heart, are immediately concerned with the life of all races and nations, and we must set ourselves to such an interpretation and application of Christ's gospel as will make these new conditions just and brotherly. From some heart the world will demand an adequate ideal; from some fountain it will seek its healing and refreshment. Through her ministry the church must interpret and apply the ideal that is in Christ's heart; it must open a fountain deeper and richer than the comforts of wealth and power, or men will try to rebuild their civilization upon the philosophy without Christ, and upon a science without a heart.
[Rev. J. Frank Thompson in The Universalist Leader]

A final truth to be noted is that if we truly and supremely desire the accomplishment of God's purpose, and value our personal achievements chiefly bcause they contribute to that result, we shall rejoice in all the noble and beneficent deeds of other people as if they were our own. We shall make them ours through sympathy with the special benefits which they bestow and the general welfare which they promote. Thus we shall be saved alike from envy and discouragement.

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