RELIGIOUS REVIVAL NOW DUE.
In a significant editorial article appearing in the "Century Magazine" a number of facts called from various periodicals and expressions of opinion from leading students of sociology are brought. together, from" which the writer arguea that thero is imminent just now "nothing less than a revival of religion." The need for this revival is, he believes, beginning to bs generally felt, and conies as a step in. the social evolution. "Moral rules" ho writes "are not enough; what is needed most is moral motive power— the love of righteousness, the impulse to integrity, the enthusiasm of virtue. And this, as even the common man is beginning to feel,' is kindled only by religion —by fellowship and communion with that Power not ourselves which makes for righteousness. ... Heretofore there haa been much protest against any close contact of religion with business or with' politics. Now it seems to be assumed that nothing but religion can renovate brutalised business and corrupt politics. It is a great enlargement of the popular conception of religion, and ought to gain for it some new consideration."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 2
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184RELIGIOUS REVIVAL NOW DUE. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 2
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