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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.

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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."

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MR. SAVAGE'S BOOKS.

SERMONS AND ESSAYS.

Christianity the Science of Manhood. 187 pages. 1873

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The Religion of Evolution. 253 pages. 1876
Life Questions. 159 pages. 1879
The Morals of Evolution. 191 pages. 1880
Beliefs about Jesus. 161 pages. 1881
Belief in God. 176 pages. 1882.
Beliefs about Man. 130 pages. 1882
Beliefs about the Bible. 206 pages.
The Modern Sphinx. 160 pages. 1883
Man, Woman and Child. 200 pages. 1884
The Religious Life. 212 pages. 1885.
Social Problems. 189 pages. 1886.

My Creed. 204 pages. 1887

Religious Reconstruction. 246 pages.
Signs of the Times. 187 pages. 1889
Helps for Daily Living. 150 pages.

Life. 237 pages.

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Four Great Questions Concerning God. 86 pages. 184
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The Irrepressible Conflict between Two World-Theories.

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282 p ges 1898

Light on the Cloud.

176 pages. 1876. Full gilt. To-day. 248 pages. 1878

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Bluffton: A Story of
Poems. 247 pages. 1882. Full gilt. With portrait

Hymns. 92 pages. 1898

These Degenerate Days. Small. 1887. Flexible
The Minister's Hand-book. For Christenings, Wed
dings, and Funerals. Cloth

Psychics: Facts and Theories. Cloth.

Paper.

Sacred Songs for Public Worship. A Hymn and Tune
Book. Edited by M. J. Savage and Howard M.
Dow. Cloth

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POLITICAL IDEALS;

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE LATE
SENATOR HOAR.

My text is from the one hundred and thirty-seventh Psalm, the fifth verse,-"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning."

These words are the expression of an unforgetting love for country and home; but Othello is not the only one who has loved, not wisely, but too well.”

We do not always love wisely as individuals; and men who love their country, undoubtedly love it, do not always render it their intelligent and best service.

We are in the midst—or rather nearing the end-of a Presidential campaign. It is none of my business to preach politics in the ordinary sense of that word; but it is my business, it is every true minister's business, to consider the great principles which lie at the basis of our government, and fidelity to which is bound up, not only with political stability, but with our religious, our moral, our home, and our personal lives as well.

The earliest government-for it helps us to understand where we are to glance at where we came from—was a family. The first king was the father, the father not only of the small family, but of the larger family after it had grown into the tribe; and he held in his hands absolute power, extending even to life and death. He ruled, in the true sense of the word, by “divine right."

For though in those days the father was not always, and perhaps not often, deified while he lived, he was worshipped after his death. He was considered still as not only being interested in, but having power over the

family or the tribe of which he had been the head while visible, and of which he remained the head, though now invisible. The visible father ruled as the successor to the invisible and deified father, -ruled by his sanction and in his right.

You are aware of the popular doctrine, which still remains in some attenuated form, of the divine right of kings. It had its origin undoubtedly here; and there is one striking example of it still, of particular interest to us considering what is going on to-day in the Far East.

Japan has had an unbroken line of mikados for twentyfive hundred years; and the mikado is nothing but the head of the family. The Japanese worship ancestors; and the one great controlling motive of life with the ordinary Japanese is to be worthy of his ancestors, and at the same time to be a worthy ancestor, so that his children may keep up the worship, and not be ashamed of him.

Here, then, is still the father of the tribe in the recognized Emperor of Japan, ruling in this old sense of a clearly recognized and earnestly accepted divine right.

For a great many years, for ages, this fiction-for at last it became a fiction-still remained. Still, as Shakespeare says, there was divinity that hedged a king,—no matter how he came into possession of the power,-down to the time of Louis XIV., who believed this so thoroughly that he recognized no right and no power outside of himself, and, when somebody said something about the State, he replied, "I am the State."

This was the old idea of sovereignty. I need not trace the steps by which it has become antiquated and outgrown. Originally the tribe had no recognized territorial limits. Wherever the tribe wandered, there went the government with the people. In ancient Athens this change was made, though I need not stop to go into the matter in detail.

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