[To TEE tans. Ow THE “Srocrana..1 Ste,—There will be no
peace in Christendom till men submit to the guidance of the Spirit of Christ, which He promised should lead them. "Ye shall be all taught of God " is a pledge both encouraging and warning. Are you listening and heed- ing P Our Lord attracted multitudes because He taught with authority and not as the Scribes from a written code. Power went out from Him as it will from those who are filled with His Spirit. The parable of the seed growing secretly is a precious fragment of His teaching. There is far too much belief in hothouse treatment and elaborate system. The simple words Our Father are an epitome of Christianity. The Atonement, as St. Paul says, is • reconciliation of man to God, not of God to man The prodigal son never ceases to be a son. Brotherly kindness, not the spirit of the elder brother, is the first step towards the supreme gift of the love of God. But it must be taken. How do we feel towards others P That is more important than how we feel towards ourselves. "Selfishness" is a word not found in the Bible, and how hateful is the modern abortion "altruism." From the milt of hatred, which comes with a shock on our pleasure-loving, easygoing age, we turn horrified to a sense of mutual duties. But we MS still groping in a cellar, wherein moulders grain which will never bring forth fruit till sown in the spacious field-plot of God's world: Qum muleent aurae, format Sol, educal insber.— I am, Sir, &a., OCTOGENARIAN. [This correspondence must now cease—En Spectator.]
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