| Show ON RELIGIOUS TOPICS The Interior Ungoverned antI reckless s zeal rul ni all too often otten makes Christianity ridiculous ActIon clon II e spectacle the tha world Is III asked kc to take as 8 wItness to nIl all the Iho virtues ot Of wl wIsdom tom 1501 counsel no lell II IN acknowledged energy sup lIles lilies the lie place Ilace ot of both and a pious plou ule Is 8 to 10 preserve ilie energy clo close e into the tho usefulness of at Its results DIstaste for Cor such uch Is III wholesome Iova Ioe o of reality respect for tor which tight against Uld pretensIon uro itro normal factors In the tha normal lifts They rhey ought therefore to 10 be 1001 good starting poInts tor or normal should certainly meal effectual religIon Hut But pl these qualitIes seem rather tn ft hamper the real doIng of at real Ical deeds front from religIous Intent liw ho rca rea disapproval o of fanaticism 1 runs rune Into panicky dread ot of beIng being fanatical and the panic paralyzes 11 1 I k t 1 alIl I 10 10 emphatically saId that 10 no man however learned and able cn can become final authorIty In th thu John CalvIn Wl was 1 a great think l Or and a gool good lan man but his theology dOf does not lot In some ole points l represent what that w we believe to tn he tue tha mind of at the SpIrit nod and so or of the tho other great minds th tt have hara themselves In of et to reduce the tho revelation of at OM God to theologIcal definItions The ot of God to exact theological The Tho revelation ot of truth 11 itt the Word Vord of Gait Is h too great and too for Cor an any one man or any auy ns as of men to compress Into a ter trio As well might tacit tr try to corner orn r tl lii sunlIght or gother gather the ocean Into 1 a gallon Doubtless It Is ladle to clear thinking 01 on some ot the thc divIne revelation that eln coin potent men should hould systematic theologies rein line to but bUI thank God wo we have In thIn ago ag the lb lib libart er art tu to compare them with Uh the on amid accept or reject ie S w 11 th them satisfactory r otherwise Te The J i ook WI Ve hal not Iet get I s t le ob In this until ore arc wrought Into our national ln ton three princIples First t that the tho object ot of IRI law is 19 simplY to pro Oct teet thu workingman right to hiss hIs rest tho those e vocations 11 at o e restrained whIch Interfere with hi hIs right to 10 his re rest t and those thoo pleasures are I which disturb tend to distro destroy this tho quIet the whole function If of la law I is tul ful tiled J Each ach Individual must bo be let left free treo to use UHe the tho rest relt provide by this day lS as he likes ho he does not interfere wih with the right rights ot of hi his ussr Second fled od Is glad In our flees Pure lure healthful festivities socIal tellow fellowship glad homecomIngs innocent mirth mn may all ho he as holy to tolie the lie Lord UI us prayer or praise Thir Third and mo most t ot of nil all we Ve shah never know how to rest relt until we know how to stork ork We e cal can lerer never know how to maice our r rest day hOly to God un tl ii 10 we have learned how to 10 cons consecrate rate our week days wok work to his servIce In to our |
