Article September 13, 1913 Issue

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with contributions from T. Rhondda Williams

[The Congregationalist and Christian World]

Men are beginning, both in and out of the churches, to take seriously the relation of Christ's teaching to our human fellowship and to insist upon the validity and authority of the second of the great commandments. That has always been the call of the gospel and the occupation of soul for earnest followers of the Christ who gave himself for men. It is to be the test and controlling principle of the life of the church that is to be. We believe this reconstruction will sooner or later lead men back to all the essential and once familiar usages of the church, but it will fill them with richer content and glorify them with new charm. The new faith which these prophets and seekers have seen at the dawn, will be the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ conformable to his life and death for men.

All these discoveries of new content and satisfaction for the hunger of the heart in Christianity are warnings to us that we of the churches have not yet filled our religious customs and observances up to the brim with the spirit of Christ. Our Lord's day has not become sufficiently the Lord's. Our homes have not always been places where he was a resident, continually acknowledged and delighted in. When we are more Christlike in our thoughts and ways, we shall have more power for Christ.

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