Editorial September 9, 1916 Issue

The "pearl of great price"

Archibald Mclellan

Apropos of the need for a religious revival, a writer in a recent issue of The Christian Work in discussing this point says:—

If they mean by a revival of religion a revival of righteousness, the awakened moral sense of this modern age would be in heartiest accord. But if they mean a revival of anything else, the age will be suspicious or entirely indifferent. We have enough religion of the other kind and to spare. A revival of religion that awakens emotion merely, that arouses the fear motive, that appeals to a man's theological prejudice or sectarianism, will never succeed today. But if they mean by a revival of religion a revival of righteousness so deep, so sincere, and so vital that ministers and church officials and church-members everywhere shall recognize that their great business in the world is to preach the goodness of God, and that men ought to be good like God, and that there is nothing else in all the world that can save a man, here or hereafter, but the goodness that is wrought out in his own life and character through the life of God,—if they mean this, and that we are not only to preach goodness, but that we are to translate goodness into our daily lives, and then translate it into the life of the community,—for such a true revival of religion this age most earnestly waits.

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