All religion is wrapped up in this fact. Jesus Christ is obviously of that world. He tells us to see to it that we possess "treasures that moth and rust do not corrupt, and thieves do not break through and steal." And here we of the present day need a warning. We are anxious, most properly so, to let it be known, that the Gospel holds the solution of the "social question." It does. The only hope of the world is in it. Still, the Gospel has grander work to do than to be maid-of-all-work to economics. Christianity might get every man a "chicken in the pot," but he wouldn't be much of a man, if that was all it did for him Christianity didn't do much econo-tically for John Bunyan. It gave him 12 years in Bedford gaol, and let him get a living as a tinker. But John Bunyan was a happy man in this world, and he saw "'the land of Beulah.' Christianity is the disclosure of the eternal life of God in the Eternal Son, from whom it radiates into everything, but lodges as eternal life in all "that receive Him" to whom He "gives the right to become children of God." There is another thing against which we need a warning, One often hears criticisms of child-tens' hymns, because they are so often about heaven. It is said, "What nonsense letting them sing about heaven," better let them sing avent Sewers. Let them sing about flowers, but about heaven too. For this reason. These spiritual things can only be represented in figures and pictures, as in the Book of Revelation. Thus hymns about heaven are the only way to teach children that they too belong to a world not seen as well as to one that is seen. And to grow up with out this fact being printed deep on their hearts, is to
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