Is Masonry A Religion?

made them free . There may be religious observances and forms of worship which they both observe , but thoy are not religion . We would have a much olearer conception of the Trinity , and religion , too , if we would remember that Christ defined the third person in the Trinity as " the Spirit of Truth . " If religion means the worship of God , " a binding fast to God , " how are we

going to get possession of it other than by a scientific or rational route ? It is not contagious ; it is not something external to be conferred or imposed upon one , and it is a great pity that the average line of theology is so formulated as to limit the revelation of a new truth ; for truth is " too great for adequate definition , " and while " Christian facts will never change , their interpretation into thought and action changes ever . "

There is an old theology which Professor Mabie says " begins with the evil one , and finds sin essential , rather than unity with God , with sin as an accident , " and a great deal of the theology of the present has its cable-tow fastened somewhere out of sight to this mummy of the past , knowing that new truths will not go into old bottles , except with disastrous results to the old bottles , and while " the word " is being made of no effect because of tradition , the entire Christian world wonder why it is that religion seems so unattractive to the masses .

An eminent theologian says that " the unknown prophet who wrote the first chapter of Genesis revealed the foundation of all religious truth and the secret of all religious life , for the first doctrine of that book is that God is in nature ; the second is that God is in man , and this is the whole superstructure upon which the Hebrew and Christian religion rests . God made man in his own image . This is the keynote , and as the ages passed it swelled into grander harmony until it culminated in Christ who combined in His image " perfect divinity and perfect humanity . " And religion is simply a

recognition of the eternal reality of our kinship to God , and living according to this reality . Religion does not stand without the man' and shape his actions , but models the life from within . And surely that which teaches man his relation to God and to his fellow man , that which leads him into light , that which leads him to search for truth , if there be any answering light within , must certainly lead him to find the image of the Great Architect in his own soul , and if he will follow this science which says that " truth is infinite" back to its source , he will have found that universal religion which bears the marks of God ' s royal priesthood , and exalts above all creeds . LIZZIE I . BELLEB , Perth , Kansas .

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