Article June 12, 1926 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Charles Lewis Slattery, D. Raymond Taggart, Prebendary Carlile, S. Coleman

[From an article by the Rev. Charles Lewis Slattery, Bishop Coadjutor of Massachusetts, in the Forum, New York, New York]

Christ said, "By their fruits ye shall know them." The genuine test of the value of any group of Christ's followers is, "What have they done? What are their fruits?" Of any Christian church, when we frankly face the judgment of Christ, there is only one fruit which, we recognize, can satisfy him. This is not a mighty organization able to control millions; it is not imposing buildings rising on every country hilltop, and on the chief square of every city; it is not wide and convincing scholarship and an array of unquestioned credentials. These all have their place; but the Lord of the church, as we read his life in Palestine, evidently cared little for them. The test of any community confessing him is Christlike character. If it cannot show power to create that, all the trappings and all the historical accuracy and assurance of the universe cannot make it a true church.

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