Editorial May 15, 1965 Issue

The Vigor of Christianity

Helen Wood Bauman

Christianity is a vigorous religion. It calls for active devotion to good. It acknowledges God to be Love, and one who accepts this truth dare not become complacent about his way of worship. The evil in the world around the Christian demands action if evil is to be destroyed and mankind saved from suffering. Complacency is the opposite of the vigor of the religion founded by Christ Jesus, and an attitude of thought which attempts to compromise with materialism by making no spiritual effort to correct evil, even while calling itself Christian, is sure to lose its Christly vitality.

Jesus taught a religion of doing. His followers were not merely to teach the commandments, but to do them. His brethren were those who were ready to do God's will. He said to the disciples (John 15:14), "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."

There is no end to spiritual doing. Jesus illustrated this truth by the parable of the servant who is not permitted to sit down and eat when he comes in from plowing and feeding cattle, but is made by his master to serve him first. Of this master, Jesus said (Luke 17:9): "Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not." And he reminded his disciples that they should do what it was their duty to do.

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