Article November 19, 1904 Issue

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with contributions from W. B. Flanders

If every public officer were really a Christian, if every employer and every laborer were really a Christian, if every merchant, every householder, every man, woman, and child were really a Christian, of course the kingdom of heaven would not be far away.

If that is true, then the sensible thing to do is to make Christians just as fast as we can, and in proportion to our success will the kingdom of heaven approach the earth. The point of all this is that the most vital element of life to-day, from the standpoint of the world itself, is religion, for if there is any truth in the observations of pessimists who find conditions so deplorable and hopeless, it is because religion has been pushed into the background while we experimented like our brethren of olden time in Egypt, in making bricks without straw ; we have the clay and sand and water, needed properties, but nothing to hold them together!

The chief need of the world to-day is religion; we need it in our officials, high and low, we need it in our voters, we need it in our rich men and poor, we need it in our stores and factories, we need it on our streets, we need it in office and study and studio, we need it in society, we need it in the newspapers and in our literature, we need it in our amusements, we need it in our schools and colleges, we need it in our homes, we need it most of all in our churches.

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