Article September 23, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

Charles R. Brown with contributions from W. H. P. Faunce, Dean Hodges, Lyman Abbott, W. Tudor Pole, Frank N. Riale, E. L. M. Gould

[Pres. W. H. P. Faunce, D.D., LL.D., in Watchman.]

A larger kind of righteousness is now looming on our horizon. Too often we have in the past been content with mere individual correctness. The traditional code has been right enough, but too petty to hold strong men. It has dealt with where a Christian man might go and how he should behave, and given to the young Christian a selected list of pleasing but petty virtues. Now we are coming to see that we need not only individual correctness of deportment, but a social order aflame with desire for justice and throbbing with human pity. As God's prophet led Nineveh to repentance in the great days of old, so the modern city must repent or be overthrown. It must realize that no success in the making of steel or flour can atone for utter failure in the making of men. We need again to see Moses crying with sublime audacity: "If thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book;" and Paul crying: "I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren." All sections of our modern life are to be permeated and redeemed by the immanent spirit of God. We are not merely to save souls, but to save men—body, soul, and spirit.

[Dean Hodges in Churchman.]

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