Article September 24, 1910 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from J. B. Irvine, W. B. Hinson, R. J. Campbell, Brent

[Editorial in Biblical World.]

Our hope is set, not on a kingdom of God to be ushered in by a personal, visible coming of the king in the clouds, an overthrowing of all human institutions and the establishing of new heavens and a new earth, but on the ever larger and fuller development of the kingdom of God that is now on earth. We are preaching the gospel not till, the witness having been borne, the nations shall be destroyed and the handful of the redeemed shall become the nucleus of a new era, but in the confident hope that little by little the leaven may leaven the whole lump and the nations of the earth become the kingdom of God and of His Christ. The inspiration of victorious Christianity lies not in the hope of rescuing one's self and others from an impending cataclysm, but in the joyful devotion of one's self to the task of helping to create for today and for the future an order of things in which God's will shall be supreme and mutual love shall govern in all human relations. Instead of waiting for the day of the Lord as an event which is to come "out of the clouds," Christians increasingly find inspiration to strenuous endeavor in the thought that, working with God in an age-long process, they may not only achieve something for their own day, but make some contribution, be it ever so small, toward the realization of that ultimate ideal toward which God is continually guiding the race.

[Interior.]

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