Article June 25, 1932 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from J. D. Rankin, Arthur John Gossip, Gerald Herring, Norman Goodall, A Correspondent

[Dr. J. D. Rankin, as quoted in the Star-News, Pasadena, California]

Many of us admire Jesus: we say with Renan, "Jesus will never be surpassed." We would be angered if told that we are not Christians. But we are not willing to follow him in the beneficence of his life and the surrender of worldly practices which are permitted in the world. Christ [Jesus] requires the surrender of nothing save that which is hurtful to our spiritual natures, but he does require the surrender of everything that will injure our moral natures. Why did he come to the earth but to lift mankind to a higher level? What is Christianity for, if it does not make its followers different from the world? If Christians are not to be different from the people of the world close the churches, for they have no mission.

Jesus required his disciples not only to surrender many things which the world practices, but to do many things that are not pleasing. He ever "went about doing good," and his disciples must imitate him. We must give ourselves in unselfish service as he did.

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