Article June 18, 1904 Issue

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What is needed to-day is such a demonstration of the living God that men will know His direct relation to them. It is the work of the Spirit of God to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to come, and it is found in personal experience that the effect of Spirit's presence in the soul is to make very real the Biblical revelation as to God and to bring Him into such manifestation that His being is the profound truth of the soul. Multitudes of Christian people are living in a sense of accountability as fully as that of any period, because they have known through experience of the power of God that He is the Alpha and Omega of life. It is the business of the church at the present time to bring men to the conviction of the truth of the word of God and to secure Divine power in such effectiveness in human experience that they shall gain a renewed sense of accountability of Him.—The Watchman.

For every stage of progress, up the vast spiral of ascending life, we need to summon all the real and vital things within us, all hope and courage, all patience and sympathy and love. We need to stifle and silence the unworthy things, the brutish impulses, the low-born passions that bark at our heels. We need, in one word, to be alive. And if any tract of life has become torpid, if any faculties for better things have sunk into disuse, if the palsy of indifference has invaded any vital center of life, the word which needs to be spoken to these wandering powers is the word spoken of the prodigal son: "He was lost but is found; he was dead but is alive again."

The Congregationalist and Christian World.

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