Article April 29, 1905 Issue

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with contributions from Charles E. Jefferson, C. Ellwood Nash

The pessimism and hopelessness so prevalent to-day, even among professing Christians, are the direct result of a failure to grasp the fundamental doctrine of God's omnipotence.

Along with the doctrine of God's sovereignty will go the doctrine of His immanence. It is an old doctrine couched in fresh phraseology and with new light shot through it by modern science. The doctrine is written large across the pages of Scripture, and in every land and time the saints have known that God dwells in the hearts of men. In Him we live, and move, and have our being, as the apostle long ago declared. The forms in which retribution was often preached in preceding generations were so grotesque and arbitrary that some of us have been ashmed to say it right out clear and strong, that God punishes men for their sins. In the coming days we are going to believe again that whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap, that without holiness no man can see the Lord, that there is no peace unto the wicked. . . . and that God is calling upon men everywhere to repent.
Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, D.D. The Congregationalist.

If the Bible is not felt by any one who reads it, to be a revelation of higher truths than other books contain; if the things therein which are pure, true, just, lovely, and of good report are not instinctively apprehended; if the recorded words of Christ do not of themselves impress the reader as the deliverances of one who spake as never man spake; if the Scripture expositions of sin, repentance, hope, faith, trust, and love are not understood and interpreted from an inner individual experience; if the Bible does not "find" men in the innermost sanctuaries of their lives, and pronounce the word which lies unuttered in the secret places of their hearts; if it does not give a voice to all devotional, pentitential, and worshipful moods; if the proof of its superiority to the sacred books of other religions is not manifest without added logic — then no authentication of its worth by theologians, churches, or councils can do anything for a man.— Western Christian Advocate.

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