Article September 25, 1915 Issue

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[The Christian Intelligencer]

The religion of the Bible is not only to be studied, but to be practised. Christianity makes its appeal to the reason, to be sure, but also to the conscience, to the affections, and to the will. The knowledge of God is not an exclusively intellectual proceeding. Salvation is not the monopoly of scholars. Many of the deep things of God are matters of intimate experience and come through obedience to the known will of God. "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself." It is entirely unreasonable to reject Christ because of intellectual difficulties. He has done enough for the world to be entitled to a man's trust and obedience. To bring Christianity to the bar of imperfect individual intellectual standards and then to reject Christ because he will not accommodate himself to man's inferior categories is rank impertinence. It is sin. It is blasphemy against the Son of man. If Christ can break the power of reigning sin and can deliver the soul from the guilt of sin, he has a right to say, "Follow me." Now Christ is able to do all that he claims, and a man has no right to reject him on intellectual grounds without having tested his grace and power in daily life.

[The Christian Work]

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