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/ 1HE V A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON Et THE REV. L. L. TAYLOR. j Subject: " Square Deal ia Religion." Brooklyn. X. Y.?As tbe subject of his sermon Sunday tbe Rev. Livingston L. Taylor, pastor of tbe Puritan Congregational Church, spoke on "Tbe Square Deal in Religion." He took two texts: Proverbs xii.:22: "They that deal truly are His delight," and Psalm xi.:7: "Tbe righteous Lord lovetb righteousness." Mr. Taylor said: * The kingdom of heaven is a square v deal on earth. From tbe night visions of the shepherds to the day dreams of St. John it is peace and good will on earth, among men. which the hosts of r>l.rt eaan Kaptiil'lut tllpniSPlvP? tO muu mc v..- . promote. And He ayIio came from heaven lived brother to all men, that they might ever after dwell as bretliren here. But there can be 110 kingdom of brotherly men on earth with au.v other throne set up than that of a fatherly God in heaven. The square deal has its vertical lines as well as its horizontal. The horizon never limited Christ's vision. He lived for the day * when men would treat God right. In that day no man will have anything to fear from any other man. The thinking world is coming around more and more to Christ's estimate of religion as the power that must set things right among men. But in His day and in ours the problem of the square deal involves religion itself. It has always been hard to get a square deal for religion. It has always been hard to -maintain a square deal in presenting ^ the claims of religion. It has always been hard to keep a square deal at the heart of religion. These things shouid be borne in mind by us all as we enter upon the special religious activities and privileges of the Lenten season. The square deal in religion involves n square deal for religion. And this in turn involves two things: first, a fair v minded attitude toward religious phenomena, institutions, doctrines and persons, and second, a determination to deal fairly with our own religious 11a% ture, a determination to give the soul a square deal. Men deal more fairly with the fact of religion than they used to. They are settling down to the conclusion that ^ the race is "incorrigibly religious." TJiey are beginning to understand that the world's history could npt have been : . what it has been if men had no capac' ity and need for religion. Religion must be recognized as a legitimate huK < man interest unless we want to throw k out of court the most persistent of all classes of facts. Religion must be recognized as one of the great human interests if we are to maintain any sort of proportion in our view of human life as a whole. Religion must be recognized as the supreme human interest if fiwe would be consistent with any rea eonab'e definition of religion. If relig-v ion is au affair of the soul in its rela1% w tions with the infinite nothing short of this is reasonable or right. We should . . - . expect to see men. as we do. striving to make religion supreme, not content with anvthina short of the religious in terpretation of the universe anil of human life, determined to have some sort of religious system, spending and being pent tn the service of religious institu'v tions, their churches, their missions. We should deal as fairly with these .facts as "ve do with the facts which convince us mat it is natural for men I;; to have music, that it is natural for r . men to express themselves and to find pleasure in the varied forms of art, - that it is natural for men to concern . themselves with the right and wrong y of things and of their own lives. But fair dealing with the fact of re; ligion requires that we should recogv , nize the limitations and the inevitable , imperfection of all the forms in which the religious aspirations of men find expression. It is nothing to the dis' credit of religion if our best efforts to embody it fall short of those visions of its glory with which our souls are blessed. It is no less a treasure because we have it in earthen vessels. 'Religious systems are confessedly lm perfect Religious persons are full of faults. But they exist. They are facts. And they are as good evidence of man's religious nature as they are I of the imperfection of all things human. I But how about our own religious nature, yours and mine? Have we been treating it fairly? In 187C George Romanes, a brilliant young British scieni tist, came to the conclusion that he liad ho right to a soul or a God, and f * that it was -his "obvious duty to stifle J all belief" and to "discipline his intel! . - dect with regard to this matter into an | attitude of the purest skepticism." "I ;am not ashamed to confess," he wrote at the time, "that with this virtual negation of. God the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness." And h" was 4 oppressed by "the appalling contrast between the hallowed .glory of that creed which was once mine, and the lonely mystery of existence as I now find it." A little less than twenty i room i?*Ar (Zenm* Romanes became convinced that in seeking to deal unflinchingly with the facts <of physical science he had ignored the most 6ignifi cant of all facts, the most directly ? known, the most completely attested of all facts, the facts of his own religious ^ nature. He came to recognize that it is "reasonable to be a Christian believer." Before his untimely death he had returned "to that full, deliberate communion with the church of Jesus Christ which he had for so many years been conscientiously compelled to forego." In the multitude of his thoughts within him he had secured a square deal for his soul. ^ Our difficulties may not be his, but we have them. The things which make it hard for us to secure our souls their chance may be very different from the things which made it hard for him. Scientific men of to-day have less to make them feel as the seemingw ly triumphant raatcrialis . of the sevl * enties made young Romanes feel about haviug a God apd a soul. But our difficulties may be of another class entirely. Perhaps they are far less creditoKla 4a /mit* ?ntolk?r?tnnl slnoeritv. less auiv iv vui ? y creditable to our moral purpose, evil inclinations and-the multiplied opportunities for gratifying them that make it hard for their souls to get fair, hearting. "The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life are not of the Father," John tells us. But something more is true. They out-Herod Herod in their conspiracy against what j&v. ' ri v - ^ * * is heaven-born in us. They are not only "not of the Father," but trey are the deadly foes of all that is of the Father. Happy are the souls in which the flight into Egypt comes out as it dees in Matthew's Gospel of the Infancy. Let us net hesitate to play Joseph our threatened soul. AM the dreams and angels that we need will be forthcoming if we are faithful, and we shall get back to Nazareth. Somehow Herod will be circumvented. And though it be neither scientific doctrines nor ?.vil propensities which do most to make it hard for our souls, but just the petty preoccupations and the daily burdens and the round cf more or less irritating duties of our common life, we are under the same sacred obligation and have the same encouragement fo secure for our souls the square deal God means tuem to have. Let'us never forget that Jesus Christ is the great champion of a square v'.eal for every soul, and that that means ours. A square deal in presenting the claims of religion should be religiously maintained. God is eternally against anything else. Jeremiah never said anything which bears more unmistakably the seal of a uivim ratification than when he called it "a wonderful and horrible thing" that had come to J .Mull's urape ionic lo., oa Ave., Rock Island, 111. Gite Full Address and Write Plainly. All druggists, 50c. per box, or by mail upon receipt of price, btamps accepted. 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It rules out dogmatism and uemands a square deal for whatever new light may break forth. It rules out the insinuation of doubt and dc lands a square deal for# the feeblest and most unintelligent faith, it rule5? out insincerity of whatever kind. But it does not rule out loyalty to deep convictions, nor defiuiteness of teaching, nor the replacing of the broken reed of an outworn doctrine with the strong staff of a living truth. To be absolutely loyal to the truth, and yet deal fairly with all the spiritual interests affected by the manner iu which the claims of religion are presented, is 110 light thing to achieve. But of one thing, those to whom we go with the can or Liinsi iiium uc icn m uu vivuui, and that is that, so far as in us lies and God gives us light upon our way, we mean to. be square with them. God made our ears so that tliey instinctively protect themselves against cant. They close as quickly as the threatened eye. The square deal in religion involves a square deal at the heart of religion. The central doctrine should be the righteousness of God, the righteous dealing of God with men, a square deal and nothing less for all men, a square deal and nothing more for "the saved." Paul never gets tired of telling us that God does not save us by doiug anything wrong. He is continually declaring God's righteousness in His way of saving men, that He is at once "just and the justifler of him that hath faith in Jesus." Paul proclaims the triumph of the square deal in Christ. In Him "mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." All that God offers to us in Christ He has a right to offer. He comes before the bar of our ?tti? 4- nf conscience wuu jnua gran. sv^. v.. forgiveness. If it iS not ratified there it can never give us peace. It is not the less sensitive consciences which, have borne the most unequivocal testimony to the peace which God gives in Christ Jesus. But there should be nothing to settle between your conscience and your doctrine of salvation. We are not saved' by dishonest bookkeeping. Nothing is credited to us which does not belong to us in God's sight. Every item which justifies God. in His mercy toward us may not appear. But no scheme that could not pass muster with us in our dealing with men can represent the redemptive dealings of God with sinners. The man who . finds peace with God through Jesus Christ just believes that whatever safeguarding of righteousness was necessary when God's mercy set out to save him has not been neglected. But while we need not fear that God will offer us more than He has a right to, we need have, on the other hand, no fear of giving too much to Him if we give all. "Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small; Love so amazing, so divine. Demands my soul, my life, my all." al Negative Living* r4a AMona 4rftnVilD n nnrtr JUI > iil? IV Cavapv iivuvtv. u ! ?>. kind of existence. Thesmaller animals in the forests and mountains have to give a large share of their attention to avoiding catastrophe, but man was made for another kind of life. "Howare you?" a man called out to hisfriend in passing. "I can't complain," was the ready answer. Poor fellow! The best that he could say was that he was successfully dodging disaster for the moment! The present moment ought to make the highest point of joyous accomplishment our lives have yet known. God means that-it should. We have more to-be thankful for today than ever before since we or the worlcP came into being. 'Even our unconscious habits of speech will iudicate this if we are living abundantly. God's Car^. People talk about special providences. I believe in providences, but not.in the specialty. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up for a- moment. The so-called special providences .are no exception to the rule?they are common to all men at all moments. But it is a fact that God's care is more evident in some instances of it than in others, *to the dim and often bewildered vision of humanity. Upon such instances men seize and call them providences. It is well that they can, but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence?George MacDonald. All We Have to Do. The discipline which we choose for ourselves does not destroy our self-love like fliat which God assigns us Himself each day. All we have to do is to give ourselves up to God day by day, without looking further. He carries us in His arms as a loving mother Carrie* her child. In every need let us look with love and trust to our heavenly Father.?Francois dela Mothe Fenelw* HIS SHARE. "What made you refuse to airs we /questions in that investigation?" 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