Article July 4, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from W. W. Willard, George William Knox

[Western Christian Advocate.]

In a measure we can discern the face of the sky, and we say. "To-morrow it will rain," but we miss God in men and movements because they are outside our organization or do their work differently. Mark you, this is not the old fact of the tendency of the world to stone its prophets. It is something deeper and more difficult to characterize. It is the inadequate power inherent in moral force to perceive a new moral star. It is the one chief blind spot in the eye of the righteous. It is the failure of organized moral forces to realize that God may still have other resources and other men. The result of this amounts to a moral obliquity and to disaster to the cause of God and humanity. Nor should we strive to conceal our fault. The danger of self-satisfaction is the danger of the Church. We are not to defend truth alone, but to welcome it. We are not to work old methods only, but to be inventive of new ones. We are not to join hands alone with the forces on the field, but to cultivate the power to know the new ally and rejoice in his coming. Christians should be the highest experts in the sensing of new moral forces.

[The Christian Work and Evangelist.]

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