American messenger . sm we needtoday. How can any one expect to worship ourFather in the hereafter who will not worship1 lim now? What trick can death perform tochange an unloving, irreverent man into onein tune with the Infinite? The church is theschool of the spirit. An earthly tabernaclemust claim our loyalty till we view the onenot made with hands eternal in the the church, support it, attend it andpray for it, whether the house of the Lordmeans for you some stately cathedral, or thelittle white meeting house on the hill. To theworshipper of a right spirit the simplest ser-vi
American messenger . sm we needtoday. How can any one expect to worship ourFather in the hereafter who will not worship1 lim now? What trick can death perform tochange an unloving, irreverent man into onein tune with the Infinite? The church is theschool of the spirit. An earthly tabernaclemust claim our loyalty till we view the onenot made with hands eternal in the the church, support it, attend it andpray for it, whether the house of the Lordmeans for you some stately cathedral, or thelittle white meeting house on the hill. To theworshipper of a right spirit the simplest ser-vice becomes a vehicle of praise, and the hum-blest conventicle none other than the house ofGod and the gate of heaven. A Bible ministry, an active church, a sanctified press, the hope of the world 21 g!llnmni!l!IIIWI!llll!I!li:il!ll!!l!lllU^ ©£® EDITORIAL COINTTOCiTOINl NOW, THE TIME OF ACTION BY REV. GEORGE ERNEST MERRIAM Minister of Calvinistic Congregational Church, Fitchburg, Massachusetts GEORGE ERNEST MERRIAM. URING the last month of theyear 1900 the various per-iodicals of the world werecrammed with articles giving areview of the Nineteenth Cen-tury. The next month everymagazine was replete withessays and dissertations presenting a pre-view orprophecy of the one hundred years upon whichwe were entering. Indeed, with every passingtwelve-month crossing the outstretched tape oftime in the never-ending race of existence, weexchange our mutual Happy New Year saluta-tions, and Janus-like, gaze with equal intentnessover the pathway so recently trodden and overthat upon which we are about to enter. Forefathers Day, in December, and the birth-days of W ashington and of Lincoln in February,add their emphasis to the double lesson of thehour. We tell our youth what others have done,trusting thereby to foretell what they also willdo or at least to influence them in the samedirection. All of which is good—as far as it and idealism are thus born. Youcannot study the y
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