[From the Southern Methodist, Baltimore, Md., August, 1923]

It does not follow that "a penny saved is a penny earned." Much depends upon what the penny is saved from, and what it is saved for. A penny or a dollar saved, when it ought to have been spent or given away, is really lost; lost in the most hopeless fashion. So with time and strength. One may save time and conserve energy by narrowing his interests in life. Thus one man cuts out churchgoing in order that he may have more time for other things; another gives up his Sunday school class for the sake of selfish enjoyment; still another drops out of active helpfulness because such service tires him too much. The question, however, remains as to which kind of labor is best entitled to tax us. Love never counts cost. The spirit of love glories not in what it saves, but in what it gives.

[From the Times, Los Angeles, Calif., Aug. 12, 1923]

Much mold and dust and mildew have been blown away from the covers of the Bible, and men and women in all walks of life are conversing with its pages as with an old familiar friend. America is democratizing religion. Our people are taking back the faith into their daily lives as did the early Christians, and turning it into a practical force. The new religion is putting the Golden Rule into business. It is reading the Sermon on the Mount into our public affairs. It is teaching the churches that the Rock of Ages is big enough and strong enough to hold them all. It is promoting a get-together spirit, demonstrating that confederated Christianity can in the religious world attain the growth of the United States in the material. . . . And yet religion itself has not changed. God is the same, yesterday, to-day, and forever.

[Prof. E. I. Bosworth, in the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, July 30, 1923]

According to the teaching of Jesus there are three specific things to do in order to become aware of God. The first is to commit one's self to a life of honesty, that is, "to repent" and come out in the open and admit the facts. This means to be unwilling to seem to know more, or to have more, or be better than is actually the case. To be honest is to be ready to face all facts of whatever description. Facts are divine and lead to God; and faith in God involves following where the facts seem to lead. The second thing to do in order to become aware of God is to begin friendly praying. The third thing is to begin to act in friendly ways. This means to take the biggest share in the friendliest enterprises we know, and to do the friendliest things we can for all in daily, family, social, and business life.

[From the Gazette, Easton, Md., August, 1923]

Dr. W. E. Gardner, secretary of the Episcopal Church, says that youth is searching for the power that Christianity has always had, the power that can be applied every day. More than ever to-day youth detests selfishness, injustice, and war of every kind. The yound do not think so much about the wrong and evil of these things as we do; they think they are foolish and unnecessary curses. The youth of the world to-day are hunting for truth more than they were twenty years ago; and they are interested in nonmaterial objectives of life, because world events compel them to that kind of an interest. Most of the inhabited parts of the world are explored. The adventures of life are no longer in discovering countries. The adventures of the future, youth knows, are in the realm of ideas. Every boy and every girl with ambition knows that success depends more on morals and mind than on muscle. Everywhere boys and girls are looking for spiritual power. They may call it by different names, but they seek spiritual power. They will find the power they need in religion, where mankind has found it throughout the ages.

[From the Statesman, Boise, Idaho, Aug, 18, 1923]

What is the matter in Europe? . . . Jesus of Nazareth entered a world that was trying to make right out of tangles like the Ruhr tangle. He came preaching a surprising doctrine of love for enemies and doing good to those who despitefully use you. He pointed out that your enemy's happiness is part and parcel of your own. It was hard to talk forgiveness in his time, and he was persecuted, eventually crucified, for that sort of preaching. But he was right. Lincoln adopted the Christ-principle in his plans for the cementing of North and South, which were carried on even after his death. ... If the nations of Europe would come together in humility and brotherly love, having scrapped distrust, buried pride, and denied fear, there would speedily be a settlement out of which would come a united Europe, peaceful and harmonious, a happier England, a happier France, and — why not? — a happier new Germany.

[Evangelist Woodman, in the Press Gazette, Green Bay, Wis., Aug. 15, 1923]

There is no antagonism between the law of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel did not do away with the law; but both are necessary in God's plan of salvation for mankind. The law is God's standard of righteousness, while the gospel is righteousness which the law demands. . . . One of the chief needs of this world of ours to-day is to be brought face to face with the Ten Commandments. A copy of this law should be hung up on the wall of every home; and it would do no harm if some copies of this wonderful code were posted up in public places, where they would meet the eyes of people of every class and belief.

[From the Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 5, 1923]

How fortunate it is that there are those who live as men should live, that they outnumber those who do not. How fortunate, indeed, is it that out of the many who live as the creator intended humankind should live, there are available, in times of great crisis, men prepared, by right living, to step into the breach and "carry on," saving the community or the nation from disaster. Likewise, in the minor affairs of life, right living makes possible the meeting of difficulties, and overcoming them makes possible the enjoyment of life and its most complete realization.

[Mrs. Annie Belle Koogle, in the Age-Herald, Birmingham, Ala., May 20, 1923]

Christianity is the light of the world, uniting all nations and denominations in the bonds of Christ; for did he not say, "He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life," and also, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"? . . . What is this abundant life? Life made glorious through reflecting the divine qualities which Christ Jesus so fully expressed to us. Joy, love, peace, unselfishness, gentleness, and goodness, which made him the Godlike man. In Hebrews it speaks of him as "being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person." To prove what it is to be a Christian, whose life is hid with Christ in God, is to have thought so permeated with love that all the evil elements are neutralized by its divine presence; for where love is no evil can enter, but its influence delivers from everything unlike good. Good alone is indestructible and everlasting, therefore, when dwelling in the consciousness of good we are in "the secret place of the most High," in a place of safety. Wherever the light of Love enters, the clouds of evil are chased away as the darkness of the night is dispelled by the dawning of the day. . . . There emerges a universe bathed in the glow of divine reflection, until Love shall reign triumphant over all the earth, and accomplish its mission of redemption; for Love is the light of the world. There is no night there; and as the light of the divine presence of Love illuminates our pathway, it ever leads out of darkness to heights unknown.

[From the Humboldt Standard, Eureka, Calif., Aug. 16, 1923]

It would be altogether delightful if innocence and sweetness and charity and all those elements that mitigate the sting of living could endure a little longer and a little more surely. Life is beautiful when it is simple and sincere. The carking cares that come with envy, suspicion, avarice, and contention lead humans into dark morasses where youth departs and dank vapors stifle the finest aspirations. Against these influences all must contend if they would make a fine art of living. It is a . . . hard struggle, but worth the trying.

[From Signs of the Times, Mountain View, Calif., Aug. 19, 1923]

President Harding wrote: "Whatever mutations may come in the affairs of men and of human society, the Bible remains the Book of books, winning constantly wider acceptance among men wherever they live, as the inspired vehicle of the greatest truths that have been revealed to the world."

[From the Sunday Times, Los Angeles, Calif., June 3, 1923]

The head of one of the greatest industrial combinations on the Continent declared at a public banquet recently that the Bible is becoming the standard of business, and that religion is being carried into the day's work to the benefit of both. In one way or another this spokesman represents the destinies of more than six hundred thousand workers and the message he carried was that the Bible and the Golden Rule should be our companions in the daily transactions of life.

[From the Examiner, San Francisco, Calif., Aug. 22, 1923]

Everywhere there is a demand that religion should prove its solid worth to men; that sectarianism should serve simply historical purposes for the kindly emphasis of varying doctrine; and that all religionists should get together on the basis of what General Pershing calls "a more practical application of the fundamentals of religion to all the affairs of men."

[From the Times, Los Angeles, Calif., May 20, 1923]

It is impossible to break one of the Commandments. . . . They are the fabric of the divine system. They are the essence of eternity. There never was a time when they were not. Before Moses, they were as old as the universe.

[From the Expositor, Brantford, Ontario, Canada, July 7, 1923]

The man who radiates good cheer, who says kind things about people, who sees ... the man God made, the immortal, ... is the one we love and admire.