Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1917 — The Rest of Us. [ARTICLE]

The Rest of Us.

We cannotralk.be Johns, even if it were possible to think of our Lord In his risen life as surrounded by special and exclusive intimacies. It is here that the promise of the holy spirit comes in to help our faith. God is no respecter of persons, arid loves us all with an individual and appropriate affection which meets our needs with just the sympathy that fits our peculiar circumstances. Toward our heavenly father and our risen redeemer the way is always clear, nor is the impartiality of God’s love a rebuke for our human relationships and intimacies. The man who cuts himself off from close ties with those whom God has given him in order to spread himself over the whole world of man will; find not only that he has deprived his life of the deeper springs of action* but that the spreading out will be thia and superficial. We are not big enough to love men as God loves them. We are to use otir special loyalties in the image of our ideal of God’s loving faithfulness.—The Congregatlonalist. t