Show THIS and THA T contributed new H G wells says ae must have a new bable A changing civilization demands it haaya hs aya hitherto mr wells has beem regarded as an enemy of the bable sk ft new bible or any bible at the civilization we not have come into existence without the bible Is his answer Is not the old bible good enough then and equal to any changing conditions mr wells and please sir who would make this new bible would mr wells make it many minds have taken many flings at new bible making but what Is the chaff to the wheat mr wells man make a bibiel he might as well undertake to make new heavens and a new earth jesus in his story of civilization dr will durant for the most part pays a high tribute to jesus the christ but he Is mistaken when he says what distinguished jesus was the perfection of his moral creed jesus had no moral creed was not himself a moralist was not even a reformer there are many such personages today whose moralizing moral izing tendencies and reform movements would to jesus be repulsive jesus was he saviour the tried and true friend the willing and able helper of the poor sinner and it was that above everything else in him that distinguished him they never had so much as dreamed that such a friendship could be possible it was this that brought the multitudes of common people prostrate at his feet and made them to reverence and worship and enthrone him as god in their hearts he is the same sinners saviour today and worthy we thank dr for the following most noble and worthy tribute to our saviour his was the nobility of a life that never fell below the level of his teaching to christ virtue did not lie in justice only nor in abstention from evil it lay in active kindness and mutual aid lit giving the hungry to eat and the thirsty to drink in clothing the naked and sheltering the stranger in visiting the sick and comforting the prisoner no wonder the common people loved him who had ever so understood their suffering before no wonder the women fell at his feet in melting devotion he was so sympathetic with their burdens so kind to their children so tender to their sins he Is fitly the founder as well as the ideal of the religion that taught the feminine virtues to mankind reform HP hald aman s conscience ii to all legislation continues dr durant and thereby established a principle intolerable to any state reform has always faced this discouraging dilemma that ft alter institutions and laws is useless so long as human character remains unchanged and that human character can be changed only by transforming the institutions which mold it jesus never doubted which horn of the didemma he would take AU reform hedelt he felt must come from within the kingdom of heaven Is not a type of government but a condition of the soul any change of government or state would to jesus be ridiculous and trivial unless men could outgrow envy and greed hatred pugnacity cruelty and pride and thus get the mastery over self and selfishness loser there are many people who are so dead gone on themselves that they think god almighty would be highly if they condescended con to him a little homage they are accorded the right to withhold that homage if they so desire but the time will come and with many it will come too late arren they will know who is the loser and where rests the obligation gods nature Is such that he can never be enlarged or made to suffer loss by any addition or subtraction of man man can confine himself in some cave or dungeon and can will never again to see the light of day but he can never by that act diminish the power of a single ray of light to shine |