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P. 52. “Any man who is unbroth- erly or unsocial is lost. . . .We are lost when we live in a sp irit of unsocial contempt for our fellowmen.” P. 52. “We may be sure of our own salvation when we are trying to be saviors.” Is th is w hat the Y. W. C. A. means by “Fund am en tals?” , There is no refer ence whatever to th e blood of Christ nor th e efficacy of H is atoning work. The S criptural answer to th e question of w h at it is to be lost, is no t even hinted at. The w riter fails a t every point to produce th e clear answers of the Bible to the questions he raises. Has -the Y. W. “ Christian Associa tion ” completely departed from the things th a t are distinctly Christian? or what? K. L. B. ate ate THE GRASPING LANDLORD The kind-hearted m inister was ex postulating w ith the landlord who had raised th e poor parishioners’ re n t about th ree hundred and th irte en per cent. “ If I w ant to h ear you preach,” said th e landlord angrily, “ I ’ll come to church, where you should do your preaching, and listen to you th e re !’’ “ If you were where you should be,” was th e dignified reply, “ you “would have th a t opportunity next Sunday. I am to preach a t the S tate’s P rison !”-—• Life. m m GET ALL YOU CAN—BUT! Get all you can without, h u rtin g your soul, yôur body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to d istribu te; laying up in store for yourselves a good foun dation against th e tim e to come, th a t ye may attain etern al life.— J. Wesley.
As to Salvation P. 39. “ Ideally, man is a child of God.’’ P. 42. “To lose oneself in a g reat work, to feel th e tu g of it . . is to be saved daily.” P. 46. “The fundam ental purpose of social reform is to make mankind fit to live together in communities through the indwelling in th e ir lives of a sp irit of irresistible good w ill.” P. 48. “ Christianity’s claim to dis tinction . . . is no t th a t it does something which no other religion tries to do bu t th a t it does th a t something better. It does not say th a t its God is th e only God.” As to Christ P. 49. “There was something about Jesus which rem inded His disciples of God. They felt th a t . . . He re sembled God.” P. 56. “H is death was th e inevitable culm ination of a life dedicated to duty.” P. 57. “The divinity of Christ, a phrase by which men have testified to His supremacy. . . . W hatever our method of metaphysical or theological reasoning, th é fact remains th a t by th e phrases “ divinity of Christ” or “ deity of Christ” we seek to express our tri bute of faith in His supremacy.” As to W hat it is to be Host P. 50. “The world is full of men and women who have lost th eir way. Some have lost th e way to h ealth through ignorance of th e rules of diet and hy giene. Some have lost th e way to fi nancial independence . . . to hap piness . . . to moral in teg rity . . . to God,” P. 51. “Men are lost when they are out of th e place where they are useful to God ,or when they have abandoned th e . relationships w ith one another which they ought to have m aintained.” P. 51. “In our zeal to r personal safe ty afte r death we have failed to stress th e necessity of social salvation here and now.”
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