NOT REFORMATION BUT REGENERATION.
I HAVE heard of reform until I am tired and sick of it. It don't amount to anything. It is whitewashing, that is what it is. God don't re-form, he regenerates. That is what we want. That is what this nation wants to-day, more than anything else. We want it in politics, we want it in the church, and we want it everywhere—regeneration by the mighty power of God. That is the only thing that will straighten men out. Christ's method was to make the tree good and the fruit would be good. You need not try to get good fruit off a bad tree. If you have a miserable, bitter, sour apple tree you may dig around it, trim it, and try to improve it all you can, but you will have bad apples all the while. What you have to do is to cut it off, and graft it in. What we want to do is to cut off this old Adam nature, and get Christ to give us a new nature; and when men learn this lesson, then alone we are going to see a work.—Moody.