Editorial April 21, 1917 Issue

Talking and Doing

Archibald McLellan

It has sometimes been said of church people that they talk about their religion more than they practise it. This indictiment of many Christian is well put by a writer in The Homiletic Review, who says in part:—

A tendency into which we easily fall is that of making religion consist of "words, words, words." Talking about God, expounding the experiences of them of old time, saying apt and lovely things about religion, occupy us much when we come together, and quite rightly so. But to what purpose do we talk about God if none of us can pause in our onward rush and find Him, actually meet with Him and enter into the joy of the Lord? What have we gained by recounting the experiences of past ages, if nobody now is to have similar experiences?

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