Article September 15, 1917 Issue

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with contributions from Joseph Fort Newton

[The Christian Work]

Men grow and religions advance by the constant challenge of a moral ideal. It is the gleaming peak flushed with the glow of a rushing dawn that calls forth effort and keeps the soul in the sublime mood of faith. Such an ideal works most powerfully when it is incarnate in a person. That is one of the many reasons why Christianity has the preeminence among the religions of the world. Its Founder was its ideal. He himself was what he taught; he did what he commanded. There is, therefore, a true sense in which the faith is comprehended in his simple and sublime "Follow me." Christ, what he was and what he wrought, is Christianity. He is at once the ideal, and by his resurrection the moral motive power that energizes men to pursue it.

[The Continent]

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