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Realism in Christian Thought—G. M REALISM IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT— G. M. Day Circulation Office : 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago Editorial and Advertising Office: 931 Tribune Building, New York City Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. C hurch Windows AND' . Memorials in Stained Glass ■ ■ ■ ■iïtiUï)tKv>S I l l Bronze and Marble W j j k N°-'325 SDCTHAVENVfcrNEW'YOWi; SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Í ÎI STAINED GLASS;MUR AL<S rJacoftpUtt <&Ui00 Company MÖ8A1C-M ARBLMT )NE S Dept.f S 270C St.A/incent Ave., St. Louis, Me.' CAEVED-WCIDD1 1 » B R O N Z E TABLETS Memorials - Honor Rolls Full Size Pencil Sketches, Original Ideas, Sent on Request, without charge or obligation. EASIER CONTROL Heaton, Butler & Bayne High Quality - Low Prices - Prompt Service -an entirely NEW idea UNITED STATES BRONZE SIGN CO. Simplifies handling stops; (Slaea Artists 217 Centre Street, New York City leaves you free to do your best. 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W il s o n B e r n a r d I d d i n g s B b l l Managing Editor J o h n R a t h b o n b O l iv e r THE WITNESS . C. R u s s e l l M oodey W i l l i a m B . S po f fq r d I r w i n S t . J . T u c k e r A National Paper of the Episcopal Church Vol. XVII No. 23 FEBRUARY 2, 1933 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is published weekly by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscription price is $2.00 a year : in bundles of ten or more for sale at the church, the paper selling at five cents, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy. Entered as Second Class Matter April 3, 1919, at the postoffice at Chicago, Illinois, under act of March 3, 1879. T he Future Life By BISHOP JOHNSON T IS quite the fashion among intellectuals to demand live in the fool’s paradise of academic thought which I a religion which makes this world better rather than substitutes syllogisms for action and which treats the one in which the glories of the next are stressed. I can mysteries of life and death as a sort of cross word puz­ well understand how people who have a comfortable zle to be solved, instead of a wordless cross to be en­ income and a cultivated circle of friends should be in­ dured. trigued with the world in which we are now living and desire a religion which shall make their sojourn here N T H IS matter of religion it is easy to get our mo­ pleasanter and more permanent. They reflect the atti­ I tives mixed up with God’s purposes. I will agree tude of college Students who prefer a college which is that a harp and a crown are poor motives for follow­ famed for its athletic and social privileges rather than ing Christ, even though it may be God’s purpose to one in which training for an after life is stressed. But glorify our human effort by such rewards. A religion to the unemployed and under-nourished who have very preached upon the tortures of the damned and the little joy and very few prospects, there may be a hope felicity of the blessed will probably result in a theory that God has prepared better things for them than they of election in which I am elected and you are not. Our are enjoying now. Lord did not want men to follow Him for the loaves One would expect Lazarus to set greater store upon and fishes but because they recognized Him as the Lord Abraham’s bosom than Dives would anticipate. It was and Master Whom they loved, and of Whom they could probably this motive which caused St. Paul to cheer his say, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” It Corinthian converts, not many of whom were wise, not was probably for this reason that He did not dwell many noble, with the statement that the things which much upon the promises of the hereafter. On the are seen are temporal and the things which are not other hand He did emphasize it when He was encour­ seen are eternal. O f one thing I am certain, that Christ aging His own to persevere and it would have been did not preach a Gospel merely for the comfort of the cruel not to have done so in the face of what lay be­ privileged classes who rejected Him because He fore them. In other words the future life did not oc­ preached to the poor and to the oppressed. cupy a prominent place in the Sermon on the Mount, Far be it from me to assert that Christ’s Gospel has or His teaching to the multitudes but it did manifest no power to leaven human society. That depends upon itself in His words to those who were willing to suffer whether society follows Him or patronizes Him, but of with Him. this I am sure, that His primary purpose was not to It has been frequently said to me that the clergy provide a philosophy for the rich but rather good news dwell too much upon the hereafter and not enough on for the poor which few of either class are prone to ac­ present obligations. This may be true although my ex­ cept. perience does not confirm it. There are certain seasons I am well aware that we do not enlist in Christ’s of the Christian year in which this message is stressed army for reasons of our own personal safety but be­ and Easter without the resurrection is as insipid as cause we love Him. Yet when we so enlist I believe Hamlet without Hamlet. The foundation of Easter that we enlist on His terms and not on our demands. joy lies in the fact that out of our present sorrows will To the Christians who had the faith and courage to come a new heaven and a new earth. If you eradicate resist the Roman Empire and to suffer its brutal perse­ this message from the Gospel you will gratify a small cutions, the thought that Christ was at the end of the group of speculative philosophers and take away hope trail to welcome them sustained them in their deter­ from a large number whose loved ones have passed mination to follow Him to the death. As for the philos­ away. It is not selfish for them to believe that these ophers of that day, to whom sacrificial effort was an ir­ are with their Master. I believe in the resurrection of ritation, they rejected a leadership which was to begin the body because it was an essential part of our Lord’s in suffering and end in martyrdom.
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