No. 1. Beginnings. ५ " 2. The National Conference. "3. Religion of Holmes's Poems. "4. "Next Step After the Conference. "5 "Religion of Jesus. • 6. God Speaking. Series on Help by the Way. ·7.1. Trifles. 18. II. Motives. "9. When Shall I be Thankful? :"/2. II. Burdens. eus can be to 1/3. Christmas Sumon. What Jesus us to-day. "14. How God comes into his world. "15. New Year's Sermon. The Value of the Unknown. "/6. I. Stappiness. "17. II. Duties. "18. III. Disillusions. "19. The Pastoral Letter of the Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops. I. "20. Ditto. I. 21.III Worldliness. 22. Your Own Salvation." By M. 6. Simons. 13.IX. Jalking "25. XI. Work. ་་ 26.XII. Cheerfulness. "28. The Truth Seeker. By E. A. Horton. Secret of Rest. "32. A mayflower. $33. Planting Time. "34 Religious Liberty: The Case of the Armenians. 135. The Spiritual Greatness of the Real Jesus. By A. W. Martin. ་་ 36. Our Movement and Mission./ "37. God Out of Doors. Mr. Savage's weekly sermons are regularly printed in pamphlet form in "Unity Pulpit." Subscription price, for the srason, $1.50; single copy, 5 cents. GEO. H. ELLIS, Publisher, 141 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. 2843 Al 455 18944-25 BEGINNINGS. As my text this morning, I take the first three words of the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis: "In the beginning." I shall add a significant word before I am through. I am not of the number of those who believe that religion need suffer because we rest, because the services in our churches are suspended for a little time. For to my mind religion, though intimately associated with these services, and though I trust it is stimulated and quickened. by these services, is something more than a service. Religion is essentially a life; and, if you have not cultivated enough of the essence of this life, if there be not vitality enough in you so that it can last across the blank of a few weeks of vacation, then you have attended church to very little purpose, indeed. I trust, then, that you have passed your vacation time restfully, that it has been health-giving, good for mind and good for body. I hope that the trees have whispered to you messages of peace. I hope that the common sights of the common country life have freshened you as you have come in contact with the old earth mother,― old, and yet new and fresh and young with the tireless vigor of God. I trust that the ocean voices have not been mere noises, but that they have spoken to you words of cheer and peace. If it be any matter of interest, and I know it is, perhaps it is not inappropriate for me to say just here, when I am speaking to you words of well-wishing for yourselves, that I was never in better health in all my life. So far as I know, I am in perfect physical condition. |