I1—The true way of life is not only regulated and spiritual, it is also joyous. The Psalmist speaks fof the man whose "delight" is in the Inw of God. He says that that man is blessed, happy. Now that is a view of religion that you are ways encountering in the book of "sums. It had never entered the Psalmist's head that religion was a. dull thing. "One day in Thy house better than a thousand." "I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness." You had not to drag or entice Him to the sanctuary. There was no power on earth that could hold him back. What we need to do is to recapture and express the Paalmist's view of religion—that the law of the Loni 4a, thing to delight us that religion is the most glorious earth; that there is nothing ft; that the very thought of it fils tone with jo; What a ghastly travesty of rélizion it is that makes people think of Sunday as a dull day, when they expect to be bored stiff." What 'a mistake there must be somewhere when people have to devise all sorts of things so as to find sone plausible excuse for staying away from—Church. Tt would cowardice on our part to put all the blame on the outsider. A bite sha must belong to us who are ponsible for the services of the Church. What have we been doing: that people are anxious to stay away? Surely no more serious charge can be made against us than this—that we are dull. Something ought to happen here that people simply hate to miss, for true yoligion is not a penance, but a delight, Instead of being dose pondent at the thought of Sunday, Wwe should rather count the hours to its arrival, The man who has discovered that the universe is su-
Jeet to law, that, moreover, it is subject to the Inw of God; that it is the sphere of a beneficent reign,' that man should leap with joy the thought. It is the most triumphant thought that can enter any mign's mind. The man who has discovered that has found the true way of life.
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