Now, then, we cannot have much difficulty in seeing why it is that churches are not crowded, why religion, which is the greatest and most beautiful thing on earth fails to exercise the attraction on mankind that it ought to exercise. It isa matter of windows. If men will not keep windows open in their souls to the unseen and eternal—to the things, as Jesus Christ says, that "belong to our peace," to God and our mysterious but intensely real and immeasurably important relations to Him, to that great unseen world of potter and love and lite, in which the soul's true life is rooted and_in which this life here floats and is grounded as an island in the ocean, then there is no wonder that so many people see so little attraction in it. Tf there is no window open to it—to "Mount Sion, and the city of the Living God, the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable company of angels, to the genera] assembly and church of the first-born and to God the judge of all. to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus "the Mediator of a new covenant, to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than that of Abel" then, no wonder men cannot. make out what the writer to the Hebrews means "by this wonderful summing up of thy miczhty tacts and glories of the spiritual world. Tt is just the same as with the third generation of so many mill-owning families.. They do not keep their eyes open to the bigger world outside themselves. Of course, the religious life and sense need keeping up and Keeping fresh by live contact with religious things, just as commercial life needs keeping fresh and live by contact with the commercial world in all world soon be for sale. We somements.
Where would a broker be, if he kept the windows of his mind as "little open te the movements of the money markets as so many people keep the windows of their mind and censcierce to the world of the spiritual—to God and His strivings to enter with His light into their souls? His Victoria would soon be for sale. We sometimes preach as if the mass of men were outside the Christian church, are weighed down with difficulties in The way of faith raised by "modern thought.' Not a bit of T% T believe a good many people hear of these for the first time from the pulpit. No, people in the mass do_ not
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