Article July 28, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from Joseph Fort Newton, John Malick

[The Congregationalist and Christian World]

There is nothing old-fashioned or out of date in the thoughts and words of Jesus. We can with no difficulty at all imagine him as partaker or spectator in many of the outdoor pleasures, as well as in the outdoor work of our own time. What parables he would have seen in golf or tennis or baseball! What he would have said to the modern fishermen coming home having caught nothing; how he would have enjoyed the sea in fishing boat or boat of pleasure; how he would have breathed deep in the first quiet minutes on the mountain top after the long climb up through woods and over ledges, and taken his place in the talk and story telling round the camp fire; what an observer of the life of bird and beast and of the beauty of the flowers he would have been,—all these lie well within the range of our imagination. [American Lutheran Survey]

Every one who thinks knows for a certainty that there is a deeper meaning, a greater purpose for humanity, than that which appears in the quarrels of kings and in the contests of armies. He knows that there is a something deeper down beneath it all than the conflict between the passions and the ambitions of any of the groups of a passing generation. His very knowledge that there is a philosophy in history, and that current events never indicate more than the moving of tides, makes him know that there is underneath this great conflict of nations a purpose for humanity as a whole which does not appear to the casual view of ordinary vision. Once in a while those who are seeking for that deeper and greater something are thrilled by its near approach and by the glimpses which they catch of it. [The Christian Work]

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