Article January 2, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from John Haynes Holmes, Charles P. MacGregor, T. Rhondda Williams

[Rev. John Haynes Holmes in The Arena.]

The true Christianity of character and conscience and right living, of justice and truth and love, of scientists and not theologians, of good Samaritans and not Levites, of men and not priests, of doers of the word and not hearers only—this true Christianity of the Prophet of Nazareth, who came to bear witness to the truth and to give men life more abundantly, is only just now having its "rebirth," only just now, like some buried river, coming to the surface again after centuries of hidden life. Jesus did not live and die in vain; his spirit of service and of love has never perished. More bravely and more faithfully in the future than ever in the dismal past is the church destined to speak his word without fear and do his work without wearying. The kingdom, for the coming of which he prayed, and which means, as he himself was careful to declare, the doing of God's will here upon the earth, will indeed come; and the tabernacle of God, at last in very truth, as foretold in vision by the holy apostle, be here with the sons of men.

[The Congregationalist and Christian World.]

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