Article May 7, 1910 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from R. J. Campbell, Cleland B. McAfee

[Rev. R. J. Campbell, M.A., in Christian Commonwealth.]

We are so timid, so faithless, and so selfish in our way of encountering life that we allow great opportunities to slip by unheeded. The great difference between man and man is not so much a difference of capacity as receptiveness to divine inspiration and responsiveness to divine command. The real gospel of Jesus is not first and foremost the gospel of a great bestowal, but that of a great demand. Jesus demanded all that his followers had to give, even to their substance, not because he wanted it for himself, but because he knew they were not ready for the highest aims until they were freed from the petty personal point of view; then, indeed, they did find the gospel of a great bestowal, for they learned that they had lost nothing and gained everything.

[New York Observer.]

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