The second point noted was thet! St. Andrew became a follower 1&|the superior claims of Jesus, whom hho recognized as fulfilling the prophecies of seers of olden times, and to whom, with the acquiescence of his erstwhile leader, he transfered his allegiance. St. Andrew was never more of a modernist than when he loft the reformer to follow the Saviour. "I wonder if we may test our fitness for membership la the Society of St. Andrew by suet test as this? We have given many of the austerities of life, including the gloomy observance of the' Sabbath." In what way have we abandoned these things? Have we gone backward or forward? {n abandoning. the austere observances have we abandoned religion itself? Have we really advanced to_a more Christian conception of the Sabbath a day of rest, or have we give it up altogether and turned it from a holy day to a holiday? Have we substituted law for grace, or have in. giving up law, failed to proceed to grace? What St. Andrew did was not to go backward from John the Baptist, but to go forward to Jesus; and those who claim be devotees of St. Andrew can best attain to his ideal by going from reform to faith, and from John to Jesus." Surelya hon-Chestian mone
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