The Proof of Christianity

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 13, 1916

The Proof of Christianity

The proof of Christianity may be found in the transformation it works in the lives of its adherents. Speaking on this point, Pres. Woodrow Wilson, in an address before the national conference of the Commission on Church and Country Life, says:—

The proof of Christianity is written in the biography of the saints. I do not mean the technical saints, those whom the church of the world have picked out to label saints, for they are not very numberable; but the people whose lives, whose individual lives, have been transformed by Christianity. It is the only force in the world that I have ever heard of that does actually transform the life, and the proof of that transformation is to be found all over the Christian world, and is multiplied and repeated as Christianity gains fresh territory in the heathen world. Men begin suddenly to erect great spiritual standards over the little personal standards which they theretofore professed, and will walk smilingly to the stake in order that their souls may be true to themselves. There is nothing else that does that.