EPD LIVING BY THE DAY Selections for Every Day of MINOT J. SAVAGE, D.D. By H. G. W. 16mo, 210 pp., cloth, gilt top, $1.00 net. It is thought that the many friends of Dr. Savage will be glad to have, every day through the year, these words of cheer and hope from him. Our Catalogues of Calendars, Children's Books, and Gift Books sent free on application. E. P. DUTTON & CO., Publishers 31 West Twenty-third St., New York. PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE By MINOT J. SAVAGE Size, 54 x 734 inches; pages, 226; price, 90 cents net; by mail, 99 cents Dr. Savage is acknowledged to be one of the foremost preachers of liberal religion in this country, and his books, whether on religious or other subjects, have a wide circulation among many different classes of people. In this last volume each chapter deals with cardinal points of religious belief from the author's Unitarian point of view. "The God we Worship," "The Christ we Love," The Heaven we Hope for," "The Hell we Fear," indicate the line of topics treated. The foundation truths of religion cannot be too often emphasized or repeated, and when such wholesome religious teachings can be put into Dr. Savage's own simple, direct, reasonable, and forceful way, the resulting volume appeals to all who are willing to be guided by clear and fearless thinking. The chapters of this particular book go far to clear up confused popular ideas about the subjects dealt with. The pillars upon which this temple is reared are sturdy columns of rational religious conceptions which devoutly concern the development of the higher life. Rev. Robert Collyer writes a brief introduction, telling of the circumstances under which he became in a way sponsor for the material now published as "Pillars of the Temple." PUBLICATION DEPARTMENT American Unitarian Association 25 BEACON STREET, BOSTON Published Weekly. Price $1.50 a year, or 5 cents single copy "Some great cause, God's new Messiah" MESSIAH PULPIT NEW YORK (Being a continuation of Unity Pulpit, Boston) Entered at the Post-office, Boston, Mass., as second-class mail matter. Christianity the Science of Manhood. 187 pages. 1873 $1.00 The Religion of Evolution. 253 pages. 1876 1880 Life Questions. 159 pages. 1879 The Religious Life. 212 pages. 1885. 1.50 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 200 pages. 1884 1.00 1.00 Social Problems. 189 pages. 1886. 1.00 My Creed. 204 pages. 1887 1.00 Religious Reconstruction. 246 pages. Signs of the Times. 187 pages. 1889. 1.00 Helps for Daily Living. 150 pages. 1889 1.00 1.00 .25 .50 Paper. Four Great Questions Concerning God. 86 pages. 1891. The Irrepressible Conflict between Two World-Theories. Cloth The Evolution of Christianity. 178 pages. Is this a Good World? 60 pages. 1893. Paper A Man. 183 pages. 1895. Religion for To-day. 250 pages. 1897 Our Unitarian Gospel. 282 p ges 1898 Mr. Savage's weekly sermons are regularly printed in pamphlet form in "Messiah Pulpit." Subscription price, for the season, $1.50; single copy, 5 cents. I GEO. H. ELLIS CO., Publishers, 272 Congress St.. Boston, Mass. 104 East 20th St., New York. Published by G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York. Life beyond Death. 189. Can Telepathy Explain? 1902. Published by E. P. DUTTON & CO., New York. Living by the Day. A Book of Selections for Every Day in the Year. 1900. WAR AND PEACE. I HAVE chosen two or three brief passages of Scripture as my starting-point: first from the second chapter of the Gospel according to Luke, the fourteenth verse, the song of the angel,-"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased"; then from the twenty-second chapter of the same Gospel, the twenty-eighth verse,-"He that hath no sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one"; and then from the tenth chapter of the Gospel according to Matthew, the thirtyfourth verse,-"Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." The ministers of the country have been asked by those representing the International Peace Congress to preach on the subject of Peace, and of course in its favor. gladly comply with that request. I I think it is well to note at the outset the real attitude of Jesus. Jesus, I take it, was not a "peace-at-anyprice" man. Some one has said that any peace was better than any war. I cannot think that Jesus would have said so. There is a text in the New Testament which seems to embody to me the principle of the gospel of Jesus,-"First pure, then peaceable." There is no possibility of peace except on the basis of right. Of course, I mean no enduring peace. There may be a cessation of hostilities. So much for that. When a physician is called in to do what he can for a case of illness, if he is a wise man, he will wish in the first place, as far as possible, to understand the nature, the constitution of the patient, and to trace the origin |