Article August 15, 1903 Issue

Religious Items

with contributions from Orrin B. Booth, Socrates

We are all seeking something that shall make Church life more potent and the Christian religion more effective in the world. In behalf of this we hold conventions, initiate forward movements, and plan fresh campaigns. But in many minds the conviction is growing that what we need is not an expedient but a dynamic, and observant men on the watch-towers of Zion are beginning to point out this need in language that must compel attention.

The progress of Christianity in the apostolie days, its advance among non-Christian nations, can be understood only as we rearize how much their faith meant to the apostles and missionaries personally. Because it made them pure and happy and hopeful they were able to spread the contagion of that kind of living wherever they went.

So it will always be. If we have little power to attract men into the Christian life, it is because we do not convince our friends and our neighbors that we have richer resources, firmer hopes, and more enduring comfort than they possess. Once let the world about us see that our belief in Jesus Christ makes us strong to do and patient to suffer the will of God, and into that part of the world which we touch daily will come little by little a desire and an asking for the sources of our peace and our strength. To win our associates to Christ, then, we shall not have to join any special society or adopt any particular methods, but the life that is in us will bring to birth in them its prototype.

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