Article December 16, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from J. D. Jones, Samuel Zane Batten, W. E. Bowen, Thomas French, Jr.

[American Lutheran Survey]

Underneath the noise and smoke, and the struggle of the world, the silent power of the Christian religion is working steadily onward toward the transformation of the whole human race. Wars have raged and ceased in former ages, kingdoms have risen and fallen, waves of worldliness have swept over vast areas, devastating the fairest fields of civilization; but they have found their cliffs, have been broken and have receded, and this indestructible life has made the devastated areas to bloom and to bear more beautifully and more fruitfully than before.

Among all things mutable the Word of God, the heart of the Christian religion, stands immutable and indestructible. When other powers wane it waxes; when material and intellectual achievements of men crumble and disintegrate, the spiritual life produced by the Christian religion but gives additional proof that it is everlasting. Moreover, the Christian religion is the only transforming power the world has ever known. It is the religion of the true life. It contains both the principles and the power by which redemption is applied and by which life is transformed.

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