Contents. No. 19. III. What Jesus Taught About Prayer. 20. Phillips Brooks. .. 21. III. Jeans "23. X. Jesus as to Woman, Marriage and "24. Illusions and Delusions. " Shippen. By •25.17. The Sermon on the mount. "26. XII. Jesus and the Christ-Ideals. "27.7. R.R. "27. 177. Christianity and the Religion of Jesus. ་་ 28. Possible Conditions of a Future Life. " 29. Why Unitarianism is needed. "30. Our Glorious Gospel. ་་ " 31. The Glory of a Common Life. on "34. I. Pain and Goodness. Is this a Good World? 135.#. Moral Evil and Goodness. "36.11. Dissatisfaction and Goodness, "37. The Modern Samson. By Mrs. L. O. Chant, ..38.II. Death and Goodness, Published weekly. Price $1.50 a year, or 5 cents single copy Entered at the Post-office, Boston, Mass., as second-class mail matter. 1.00 The Modern Sphinx. 12mo. The Morals of Evolution. Man, Woman and Child. 12m0 12mo Christianity the Science of Manhood. The Religion of Evolution. Life Questions. 16mo Bluffton: A Story of To-day. The Signs of the Times. Life. 12mo. The Minister's Hand-book. For Christenings, Weddings, Sacred Songs for Public Worship. A Hymn and Tune Leather .75 1.00 Cloth, Unitarian Catechism. With an Introduction by E. A. Horton. 1.50 1.50 ་. 2.50 Mr. Savage's weekly sermons are regularly printed in pamphlet fort in "Unity Pulpit." Subscription price, for the season, $1.50; single copies, 5 cents. GEO. H. ELLIS, Publisher, 141 Franklin St., Boston, Mass. 1-12-43 THE FIRST THING IN LIFE. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”— MATT. vi. 33. THIS is the opening Sunday of the nineteenth year since. we entered upon our present mutual relation as people and minister. I know not how you may feel; but, finding myself fifty-one years old, I begin to appreciate the meaning and value of these passing years more and more. Not that I am niggard of them, not that I would not spend them freely, not that I have any fear as to what the coming time may bring, but only that they seem to me to mean more, to carry with them more of high and noble possibility. This opening Sunday is to me the year's beginning, even more than is the first day of January. My year is this church year in which I try to spend myself in serving you, and through you in serving the world. They are epochal days, then; and so I like to regard them as milestones or year-stones, whichever way you choose to express it. And I would that I might inscribe upon each one of them something significant, something that has a meaning as related to the time! For, friends, we are on a journey. Whatever else life means, it means this: we are travelling towards some goal. And it seems to me, then, that we can do no more fitting thing than, now and then, to consider afresh, no matter how often we may have done it before, the significance and meaning of life,- the purpose, the aim, the proposed end. Let us, then, this morning reconsider for a little while as to what our lives are and what they ought to be. For, if they have not been what they ought, it is high time that we recog |