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Show Best Work in Name of Christianity Is in Line of One's Daily Activity By REV. C. R. BROWN, Dean Yale Divinity School. Pious gestures of religion are easy enough, but it is much harder to perform the little tasks that come up every day. Pilgrimages, missions and such acts of devotion are all well and good, but the best work done in the name of Christianity is that which persons do in the line of their daily activity, in their contacts with the people with whom they live. When Christ had cured the insane man, when, as the New Testament story goes, He had cast the devils out of the body of the man and transferred trans-ferred them to a herd of swine, the man asked Jesus to let him become a disciple and help Him in His work of spreading the Gospel. But Jesuf refused him, saying that he could serve best by returning to his home and demonstrating to his neighbors that he had been cured by faith. And that is what the man did. The religious life of a college student is an example that I might cite. The student thinks of his daily grind of studying, writing papers and reading the books that are assigned as a thing entirely apart from his religion. If he works in a mission house on Sunday night, or goes out to take communion on a high hill at sunrise Easter morning, he thinks the obligations of his religious life have been met. But such things are only incidental to religion. Religion does not dwell out in the suburbs and come into town only once or twice a week. It is something that should be inherent in one, inspiring all his actions. |