The Gospel Needed by Every Race

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 9, 1907

The Gospel Needed by Every Race

JUSTICE BREWER of the United States Supreme Court in an article upon the need of the negro, says:—

I believe nothing will help him so much as the influence of the cross of Christ, and nothing will so move him to become a good and useful citizen as the gospel of the Prince of Peace.

That is certainly true with reference to the negro. He needs the gospel. Nothing is so powerful to eradicate sin from the negro as the gospel in its purity. But if the negro race were the only race that needed this wonderful sin-eradicator, this world would be a very different place from what it is today. Give the negro the gospel by all means; but give it also with equal fervor and with equal liberality to the Caucasian, the Malay, the Indian, and the Mongolian, and to every branch of these and all their mixtures. What the gospel will do for the negro it will do for every race in the world, and every race needs it. The Word teaches that the heart is “desperately wicked,” and does not intimate that this is a condition true of only one race. “All have sinned.” Consequently all are in need of the gospel, and none have ever yet risen above that need.