The
inaugural address of President Roosevelt has been read with interest in all parts of the world, an interest which attaches not so much to the immediate occasion as to the fact that the ideals of a great and free nation are necessarily expressed at such a time.
Most
of us can remember the time, not so very long ago, when the fortunate possessor of a strong and healthy body was looked upon as a person in whom the spiritual nature was entirely lacking or, at the most, only superficially developed, and the clergyman who happened to be blessed with an abundance of health and bodily vigor was secretly suspected of being no better than Friar Tuck.
What an indefinite, fleeting, intangible thing is a rumor; how fast it travels, and how it grows and assumes shape and the forms of truth as it progresses.
The Boston Herald of Sunday, March 5, contained a very interesting symposium based upon President Roosevelt's message on divorce, recently sent to the Senate and House of Representatives.
Much
has been said within the past few years about the marked decrease in the number of students in attendance at the theological schools, and many reasons have been assigned for the evidence reluctance on the part of young men to enter upon the Christian ministry as their life-work.
Though
there may be a very general disagreement as to the best means of promoting the moral and intellectual advancement of the race, there is no question as to its desirability.
The
story of the walk to Emmaus, on an afternoon which had been darkened by crushing disappointment, illustrates a human tendency that still abides to the serious disadvantage of our spiritual realization and ministry.
