Article August 1, 1914 Issue

The church should be the point where the Spirit of God...

Rev. W. E. Orchard, D.D.

The church should be the point where the Spirit of God breaks out in indubitable manifestation. "Ye are the salt of the earth... Ye are the light of the world." This means that the church should be the conscience and the guide of humanity. Here sin should be felt soonest, and the measure of sensitiveness should not be that of inconvenience, openness, general abhorrence, but a deeper sensitiveness to the things that are actually destroying men and societies, spiritual maladies which a rougher estimate passes by. The church should be able to see far ahead. It should be essentially prophetic. It should be able to recognize the presence of God in advance of any other section of humanity. We must cease to believe in the church altogether, unless there is evidence that it is really inspired with the living spirit of truth and guided by the God of wisdom.

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