Article June 2, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from W. Blackshaw, Neville Figgis, W. E. Bowen

[Rev. W. Blackshaw in The Christian Commonwealth]

Civilization does not consist of material things, however beautiful. It consists of minds and memories. It consists of aspirations and hopes. It consists of faith and love. These cannot fail. New and great memories are enriching our experience. We have a story to tell to our children and to the nations of the world. New ideas are being born, new resolves taking shape in the mind and the will of men. There is a promise of a morning following this evening through which we are passing. May we not speak of it as a new creative day of redemption. In a new and deeper sense Christ will be our light, when the relations between states will be determined,—under his guidance and with his inspiration,—and when the cross will be the symbol not merely of the church, but of the office and the shop and the manufactory. Life must be interpreted by its highest facts. These are the key to the whole. [Western Christian Advocate]

Gethsemane is not so much a place as something that happens. It has happened in many men's lives since Christ left this world. It was a night scene, and always has been. It was experienced alone, when those pledged to love us and to watch through the weary hours fell fast asleep. We go forth to fight alone, to press the sod with our knees, to bite the dust with our lips, to pray under the silent stars, to drink our bitter cup to the dregs midst agonies of soul that press the life blood from our veins. Yes, Gethsemane is not a place—it is something that happens. Happens? Yes, to every soul who takes up his cross to follow him who bore his cross to Calvary. Do you know nothing about it? Then you have never been able to say with St. Paul, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." For Calvary is also something that happens, and it is always preceded by Gethsemane.

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