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Self-Lifting Not Yet Possible

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 29, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 35.

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Self-Lifting Not Yet Possible

No man can get higher than himself by depending upon himself alone. And the man has not yet lived who is, or who ever could be in this world, satisfied with himself at his best. Yet some still preach the gospel of “ethical culture,” and urge that we offer to the “other half,” in city and neighborhood settlement work, the opportunity simply to do their best, helping them to be clean and thrifty, but rigorously keeping from them any suggestion of religion or of a Christ who is a Saviour. Such effort is like attempting to lift ourselves by our boot straps. The art of self-lifting has not yet been discovered. Men want some one who will lift them out of themselves. Christ is the only One who enables men to do better than their best.—Sunday School Times.