. Christian Century . , and inhuman judgments out of court, shall berighted. ^ If I thought that the finalword of human courts was really thefinal word on many cases that have beentried, I should be an atheist. If thosewho ordered the wholesale slaughter of theArmenians, and those who are responsiblefor the inauguration of the senseless European slaughter, are to get no punish-ment beyond that they may expect in thecourts of this world, then the atheist isjustified. We may calmly view even thepoison clouds of unparalleled war whenAve can behold through them the GreatWhite Throne unshaken—the t
. Christian Century . , and inhuman judgments out of court, shall berighted. ^ If I thought that the finalword of human courts was really thefinal word on many cases that have beentried, I should be an atheist. If thosewho ordered the wholesale slaughter of theArmenians, and those who are responsiblefor the inauguration of the senseless European slaughter, are to get no punish-ment beyond that they may expect in thecourts of this world, then the atheist isjustified. We may calmly view even thepoison clouds of unparalleled war whenAve can behold through them the GreatWhite Throne unshaken—the throne ofultimate justice. I was thus justifying the doctrine offuture retribution in a Kentucky townwhen a keen street preacher exclaimed:Thank God for hell. LESS MEDITATION MORE ACTION IN RELIGION. Turning now to another point we notethat the inner life of meditation hasgrown less among Christians and theouter life of action has somewhat, thoughnot proportionately, increased. An in-tellectual church member from New. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, England, having visited some of thewestern churches that were hustling withmany activities, said critically: Yourwestern religion is too much below theelbows. To which there came the quickresponse : And your New England re-ligion is too much above the there are groups of people in oursouthern country, and many of a differ-ent color elsewhere, of whom it may besaid that their religion is too muchunder the ribs. Every Christian ought to cultivate thehabit of viewing all the continents oflife in due proportion, the future life andthe present life, the inner life and theouter life, the individual life and thesocial life. IS THE SOCIAL SIDE OF RELTGION DULYRECOGNIZED? The pendulum has not swung fromone extreme to the other or evento the golden mean in the recogni-tion of the sociality of religion indue proportion to individuality. The individualism in religion of fiftyyears ago has remarkably held its own,though there has been
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