The Rev. A. Francis Walch, in an article in The Universalist Leader, says: "Jesus was bent on saving men into a life that should exhibit a growing likeness to his own. With a divine presumption that he was offering to men a most desirable thing for them, he said, Follow me;' 'I am the Light of the World;' 'I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life;" 'I am come that they might have Life;" 'I am the good Shepherd;" 'The Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.' So to be saved by Jesus must be to be led along his way of life, until we shall come to be like him; until in thought and affection, in service and sacrifice, we are dominated and possessed by the same spirit that dominated and possessed him. The salvation which Jesus promised is thus the fulness of life to those for whom God had purposed it. It had its origin in and received its power from a loving Father. Jesus claimed himself to be the earthly expression of that Father's love; a love that persistently refused to be denied or defeated, but that would go out willingly and gladly on its way, into every 'far country' and each dark mountain, until every man at last should own its power and live in the midst of its beauty. Here is the very heart of the message of Jesus. A message of love and helpfulness; of helpfulness as the best expression of love; of love as the broadest and deepest impulse to helpfulness. Then in view of the fact that Jesus looked out into the world as filled with children of God to be saved from all sin and smallness and to become like himself, it is right to say again that this is a most natural thing for him to do. When we come to understand that the real purpose of Jesus was to save men and women, and to save them in such a manner that they should feel it to be according to God's purpose that they should be saved, and that they should feel that it was as the children of God that they were being saved, then I think we feel that this is a most natural service for him to render, and one justifying all his sacrifice and devotion. Every promise of Jesus, to save, is made with the largest possible assurance. There is a confidence in all his promises that seems to reach down into the very heart of man's need of salvation and looks up into the very midst of God's abundance. where every soul is to find its complete satisfaction."

Rev. John M. Davidson says in The Christian Register:—

"There is that element of divinity in us that will inevitably, sooner or later pull us out of imperfection and draw us to God....

"Not even to provide for contingencies arising from our liberty of choice between good and evil need there be special enactments of law. This same law of growth, this divinity that draws us God-ward, is sufficiently broad to cover all such contingencies. This is in part true, because the law itself curtails, in one sense, our freedom. We would not deny freedom of will to God, and yet we say that God cannot sin. We, too, claim, and rightfully, to have free wills; and yet we probably shall find that we cannot forever sin. In our short views we feel only the freedom of the will, which certainly we have; but we can only know the insistent, imperative demands of this law of progress—which in one sense curtails our freedom—through acquaintance with the history of thousands of years. Many aeons hence, perhaps, we shall see that we have been under an unwavering law of progress, which, despite local and temporary infractions, in the end would not, could not, be denied."

There is, fortunately, accompanying the noticeable movement of our times toward interdenominational fellowship. a marked increase in tolerant and self-respecting denominationalism. It would seem to us that with charity for the opinion and conviction of every school of thought and every denominational tenet, it cannot be other than that men of different training or capability, or power of discernment with relation to the truth as applied to religion or morals, will be compelled, as they always have been, to give emphasis to some truths over others, or to some truths which others do not emphasize...

All truth should be emphasized wherever or by whomsoever found. What would seem to be needed to-day is not less emphasis or a denial of emphasis, but a kindly loving recognition and consideration of those truths which men of sincere thought and of religious conviction do emphasize. In this way alone, it would appear, can any age or any movement come to a clearer and more comprehensive view of that great body of truth which finds its harmony and its completeness in the fulness of God Himself.

The Standard.

The other desirable thing of which there is growing promise is a new statement of faith, really representing the belief of the great multitude of Christians who cannot now state the differences which separate them. The doctrinal barriers have fallen. How shall the new inclusive wall be erected? Dr. A. B. Bruce says: "A fresh intuition of Christ and a new Christian enthusiasm would have for one of its results a fresh formulation of Christian belief, bearing an entirely different stamp from that of the historical Protestant confessions. Till the new life come we had better let the making of a new creed alone."

The new life is coming through the spirit of unity among Christians working and praying together for the regeneration of humanity. It is not confined to the Churches, It is a work in which teachers, legislators, statesmen, and others share, believing that men of every race can be renewed into the image of their Creator and Father. This belief will in due time find formal expression, and we trust will be a creed which disciples of Christ will everywhere welcome because it will represent his spirit and mission to mankind.

The Congregationalist and Christian World.

Moral and spiritual light is at the command of all who seek it. What the sun in the heavens is to the earth, Jesus is to the moral and spiritual nature. He came to be a light in this unseen yet most real realm. He that follows Jesus—in his thinking, his principles, his doings—cannot "walk in darkness," for he has "the light of life." It is the mission of this Divine light to make clear every pathway in this world, to dissipate darkness of every kind, and to make individual lives bright and happy. The light is streaming from the spiritual heavens. It is for us to walk therein that our lives may be filled with light and joy. All who have sought and found this light have a duty surely; they are to be transmitters of the glorious light of the Gospel, that its beams may be extended to ever-widening circles of people, until at last the whole earth will be encompassed by its illumining and healing rays.—The Universalist Leader.

Professor James Denney, D.D., of Free Church College, Glasgow, says in The Watchman: "Where there is no faith even Christ cannot do any mighty work, and we ought to remember these two things: that God's work is always waiting to be done, that God always needs us, and surely also that if it is little we can do, it is all the more urgent that we should do that little and leave nothing of it undone. It is the man who has only one talent who is most tempted to go and bury his talent in the earth and make no profit out of it at all, and yet of all men that man has most need, if he can, to enrich himself by trade."

Christianity differs from all other religious in that it deals with the source of conduct rather than with the conduct itself. It does not lay down rigid rules for right living, but so transforms the affections and desires that right living becomes the natural bent of the heart. It purifies the fountain, so that only sweet waters issue from it. When the heart is right, action will be right.

The Examiner.

The moment the Gospel conflicts with a man's selfish interests that moment antagonism is excited. Perhaps the most relentless foe Christianity has is worldliness. MAny a man resists the Gospel because he finds his business methods inconsistent with the self-denial and self-sacrifice which the Gospel demands.—The Christian Advocate.

Not in husbanding our strength, but in yielding it in service; not in burying our talents, but in administering them; not in hoarding our seed in the barn, but in scattering it; not in following and earthly human policy, but in surrendering ourselves to the will of God, do we find the safe and blessed path.—F. B. Meyer.

Inspiration is the breath of life in a work or man. Revelation is the unveiling of a truth or principle which clears or enlarges our thoughts. We know more through revelation; we feel more through inspiration.

From The Temple Bible.

I am learning more and more to let things take care of themselves. No, that is wrong. I am learning to escape the atheism of anxiety.—Joseph Parker.