Article September 26, 1903 Issue

From Our Exchanges

with contributions from Richard W. Boynton, Francis G. Peabody

In our orthodox exchanges we find evidences of an uneasy feeling concerning revivals. Judging by the past a revival of religion is now due. It ought to come, just as revival of business follows a period of stagnation. The revival of religion is due. The churches need it, business needs it, in social affairs it is needed, in the life of the republic it is demanded. There is a sore need felt everywhere of an increase of the impulses which may properly be described as religious. But the old-fashioned revival has suddenly become antiquated and impossible to intelligent men. A revival of religion is needed : it must come, and it will come, just as soon as the object of it is the increase of religion pure and undefiled as a motive in the common life of the people. It must be unsectarian, not dogmatic; and above all things it must be unselfish.

The Christian Register.

Man cannot remain forever satisfied with material progress, however great it may be, which, from its very nature, does not make him all he should be and knows he ought to be. Forces lie within the personality which wait to be touched into action by motives and purposes which are above all temporal and material incentives. Within this field God waits for the opportune season to make. His most effective appeals. The twentieth century is waiting for miracles of power in the spiritual to equal those in the material realm. There are large areas of undeveloped territory in the Christian man of to-day, and there are indications that Christian manhood will move out of the field of present struggle into the new domain of worthy endeavor, where it will awaken to a new conception of the undeveloped power resident in Christendom.

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

From Our Exchanges

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access