Article January 13, 1912 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Lee McCollester, J. Van Der Veer Shurts, John H. Vincent

[Christian Intelligencer.]

An essential condition of healthy religious life in the individual soul or in the church is growth, progress. We may yield too readily and too much to the temptation to repose on our past religious emotions and experiences. These did very well at the time; they were good, and perhaps sufficient then, but they cannot avail for the present. To support the religious life on what was received a year or ten years ago is as impossible as to nourish the body today upon last year's food. There must be constant gain, or there will be certain loss. We need to be reminded year by year that the Christian life is an intensely positive and earnest life. It is represented in the Word of God in the similitude of a race to be run until the goal is reached, or a battle to be fought until the victory is achieved. It grants no one liberty to stay upon the threshold of his Christian profession, or to pause in the middle of his Christian career, and to say to his soul, "Soul, take thine ease; thou hast much goods laid up for many years, the fruit of my past religious achievements." No Christian can find in his Bible a single passage that will justify him in sitting down with folded hands, and so taking his ease in Zion. The desire of the real believer is to go forward, to press toward the mark for the prize of his high calling; for his life is true to the law which is obeyed by all faithful servants of Christ; it is a life of progress.

[Christian Register.]

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