Body and Soul

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 25, 4 January 1929, Page 31

Body and Soul

The Broadcast Pulpit

WHE: the horizon doesn’t lift above the thréé-s¢ore years and ten, you éan seé that the struggles of life must be about the conditions of lifé rather than life itself. To eat, dtink, and be merry, since to-morrow we die, Seems almost the only policy. Jesus, with His understanding of God, and belief in immofttality, saw that the value of life lay not in the pleasure 6r comfort or gain that a man could get, but in the quality of life itself, To the doctrine that man was a body possessing a soul, He would never have subscribed. To him, man was a soul, and the soul was the thing. The body was only 4 convenience, a temporary lodging place. He, therefore, believed that if meh concentrated their thought on the conditions of life, and permitted human affairs to obscure the vision of spiritual attainment, they were muking a great mistake. He believed that if the search for pleasure or comfort, for accomplishment or gain in things material, were allowed to prevent ts froin progressing in spiritual attainment, we were putting ourselves in positive dungér of losing the only wealth that can be ultimately preserved. If we gained them so that we no longer strove for spititial character, then we were already dead, men who had lost their souls. Men would continue to climb the higher heights, but we should have no part or lot in it. The Solidarity of Humanity. "PHE ideal of God for humanity is that it shall be one; not monotony, but hurmony. By the solidarity of humanity, We mean the inter-relitionship of man with man; the fuct that fio nation can, in a world like this, isolate itself and be ultimately independent. We learned it tragically in the days of the war. There were those who attempted to stand out. In some sénseé, no nation was able to stand out at last, because the agony and suffering of each ran to the uttermost end of the world, All nations ure inter-related in a spiritual and fie consciousness that does not ndmit of separation-The Rev. G. Canipbell Morgan, London.