Article July 25, 1914 Issue

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with contributions from A. T. Bannister

[The Standard]

Why is it so difficult for Christian people who are thoroughly in earnest to understand one another when certain aspects of the gospel are under consideration? It seems strange that the possession of the Master's passion for men who are lost, sometimes makes one unsympathetic toward men who are saved. So complex is our partially regenerate human nature that one not infrequently observes a preacher performing the acrobatic feat—not especially graceful in an esthetic sense or full of grace in a theological sense—of reaching out a hand of love to a fallen sinner while at the same time giving a savage kick to a saint who is engaged in the same work.

Some one will at once make the point that men who have tremendously positive convictions are the very ones who will be most apt to form uncharitable judgments, and that when men have no sharp or clearly-defined convictions of truth, it is easy to be lenient in our estimation of other points of view,—all of which is probably true; but it does not of necessity follow that one may not be gentle and strong at the same time, or that sweet reasonableness of temper is in some way connected with loose thinking.

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