Article November 7, 1914 Issue

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with contributions from W. E. Orchard

[The Outlook]

It is not God, but man, who is on trial; man who prays often, not to the God of Christ, who declared that there can be no peace until righteousness is established, but to gods of his own making, to the tribal god whose care is for his own people and not for all his children in all nations. God's truth has not failed, nor has His love. He has never promised ease and physical comfort; He has never said that the world was made for man's pleasure. He has promised strength, but as the result of discipline, self-denial, and suffering; He has promised security, but as the result of overcoming evil with good; He has promised peace, but only when justice has been established; He has promised a redeemed world, but only when purity and love have been enthroned and crowned. Christianity has not failed; it has not even been tried. Hosts of men and women have lived by it, and been victorious over sorrow and trial, and died in the serenity of a faith which had become a life; but the world has never tried it. There is no Christian nation, nor is there a Christian civilization. In every nation there are sincere and faithful Christians, but there is no nation which, in spirit, institutions, and law, conforms to the law of Christian love. Some nations have gone farther than others in Christian experience and the endeavor to make Christianity the controlling principle of national life; but no nation has yet gone beyond the early stages of this radical reconstruction.

[The Christian Intelligencer]

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