Editorial August 14, 1909 ISSUE

BOTH GOSPEL AND WORKS NEEDED

Archibald McLellan

The Duluth News Tribune, in discussing the appeal which the church necessarily must make to mankind in order to maintain, or rather regain, its place in their affections and fulfil its mission in the satisfaction of their spiritual hunger, says editorially:—

Damnation as once interpreted, and salvation as once promised, have lost their power of appeal, and authority has gone with them. This does not mean that men are less emotional, less swayed by sentiment, but that they are less superstitious, more intelligent and more rational. It means that the appeal must be by other methods, with greater subtlety and with a more human motive. The moving force must be primarily subjective rather than objective; it must be personal, but, above all else, it must still be spiritual, for, scoff as they may, every man admits in the end the hunger of the spirit and the dominance of that side of him which he might deliberately starve to death if he could.

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