From an editorial in the
Journal-Herald, Dayton, Ohio

Paul, looking toward a higher life, wrote: "This mortal must put on immortality," and "He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting."

And how shall we who are subject to the laws of human life attain this other existence? John said in the matter, "He that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." And the Master left with us the Sermon on the Mount as a form of instruction which if studied, contemplated, and practiced will lead us eventually to a point where we can do the will of God and commence experiencing the larger life.

From an editorial comment
in the Evening Citizen
Laconia, New Hampshire

Perhaps you have heard a parent say at some time, as we have, that his son lost his religion as a college student....

Reading the annual report of President Nathan M. Pusey of Harvard a few days ago, we were reassured when Doctor Pusey declared that, as to religion in higher education, "there is reason to believe the tide is turning."

"Within the university world," he said, "the indifference long accorded to religion, when it seemed to have little to do with the 'pressing concerns of life,' has been giving way. So, largely, has the hostility sometimes latterly visited upon religion, especially perhaps on Christianity. A shift is coming. It was only yesterday that theology was simply 'tolerated' within universities as a harmless survival which it would be needlessly embarrassing to expunge; today it is almost universally acknowledged that the study of religion rightfully belongs, and that this is so because religion's concerns make valid claims upon us all.

"In view of this changing attitude toward religion, it becomes even more important that the subject be given expert attention within the university by scholars of the highest competence, who can study theology fully because they do so as committed men."

Citing increased attendance and interest in daily and Sunday services in the Harvard Memorial Chapel, Doctor Pusey added: "It is of course of great satisfaction that the ancient centers of religious interest within the university are showing exciting new life, and that the movement toward renewed interest in religion at Harvard is being watched over by men of outstanding knowledge, sincerity, and faith." ...

Yesterday we heard one of the vice presidents of the Babson organization at Wellesley, Mass., George Rideout, speak along lines of the Babson Forecast of Things to Come.... Mr. Rideout's address covered the cold war, the rise in population, the labor situation, automotive developments, and many other topics of concern to the business world. He concluded it by emphasizing that the greatest source of hope at the moment is a spiritual awakening and obedience to moral precepts among men.

The shift to religion, therefore, is discernible not only in the college, but in the marts of business as well.

Harold E. Hubbard in an article
in The Christian World Pulpit
London, England

A changed emphasis is that once the stress was on the wrath of God and the first appeal to fear. Now the emphasis is on the love of God. .... We doubt whether fear is ever the supreme motive to progress. Fear tends to paralyze, to warp the judgment, to cut the nerve of endeavor. Jesus himself made his supreme appeal by love. It has not been the few terrifying things but the many loving things that he said which have won our hearts. That is surely part of the meaning in the parable of the prodigal son. Fear separates, love unites; wrath drives away, love invites; vengeance embitters and hardens enmity, love softens and subdues.

From an editorial in the
Boonton News, New Jersey

The law of compensation is nothing more or less than the action of cause into effect. If every person could be made to know of this divine law, according to which every evil or act of indulgence brings to the life that yields to it punishment as certain as the succession of day and night, it would not be long before the criminal courts would be out of business....

Happiness cannot be destroyed by outside conditions or by others. Success cannot be snatched from us by someone else or made possible of attainment by our surroundings or by anything or anybody except ourselves. Success and happiness are results of causes which will be found in our own lives....

Unsolved problems pile up to be met again and again in this life, and if not conquered they will face the future life-expression. Life demands that we grow. We must grow in every way....

The law of compensation ... is not a punishment or an avengement, but rather an adjustment. It works impersonally through us. It may sometimes seem hard when we feel that we are oppressed or imposed upon, to stop resisting, but if our faith in the power of truth to adjust all things is sufficient, we should be glad of the opportunity to relinquish our claims and place our trust in infinite wisdom.