Article October 3, 1903 Issue

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with contributions from S. M. Vernon, J. Edwin Odgers, Mark Guy Pe RSE

Not one of the twelve apostles would have left a trace in history if it had not been for the companionship of Christ, the training he gave them, his spirit that was in them. Paul might have been merely a name, as pupil of Gamaliel and rabbi, in the wilderness of Jewish tradition, if Christ had not claimed him for his own. Peter calls himself a messenger, Paul and James call themselves bond servants so wholly do they feel that their claim upon the attention of the world is that they represent their master. These were all ordinary lives, and all but that of Paul unmarked by genius or opportunity until they received the mark and became the instruments of the extraordinary, the ideal, the central man, Jesus Christ.

Christ Congregationalist and Christian World.

Much is said to-day about a coming revival of religion. For ourselves we thoroughly believe that it will come. But to our way of thinking, a revival of religion is unthinkable if it is not based on some sort of appeal to the human conscience. That has been the invariable concomitant of any revival the world has ever known that has done ant good. The time cannot be far distant when the public conscience will be aroused to a fresh and vital response to the dictates of righteousness, to the judgment of men according to the laws of righteousness.—The Watchman.

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