Article March 20, 1909 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from K. C. Anderson, J. H. Jowett

[Rev. K. C. Anderson, D.D., in the Christian Commonwealth.]

If we would grow, we must leave the old behind, that we may come out into a larger, broader, higher, nobler thought of things. And this is exactly what is taking place. It is not a flood of infidelity sweeping over the world. It is a flood of God's new light, a sweeter, broader revelation of His truth. Men have moved into a new world not only larger than the old, but vastly more religious, and in this new world the old doctrines are beginning to have no meaning. The old controversies seem trivial. There are seasons when thoughts swell like buds, old meanings press out and unfold like leaves; seasons when we either need new words for great thoughts, or else new meanings, new implications, new and larger contexts frankly recognized in the old words, and this age is one of those seasons. [Christian Work and Evangelist.]

We once said in these columns that revivals were confessions of the church's failure to do its normal work. The church should bend all its greatest effort to so inculcating the children of the land in the Christian principle that it should not be necessary to spend its greatest endeavor on reclaiming the lost. To prevent the lost should be its aim. It has failed here and is still halting in this regard. But we suppose there will always be some who relapse into sinful ways and indifferent spirit. And there are many who were not claimed for Christ in youth. And it is always necessary to awaken rebirths of feeling in the Christian. So the revival still plays an important part in the Christian church.

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