An Every-Day Religion by F. M. W.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 19, 1911

An Every-Day Religion

By F. M. W.

A RELIGION every day in the week! This kind of religion is the only real, genuine kind. A religion which is put on for the Sabbath or for morning worship, or for saying grace at the table, and then laid aside for the rest of the day or the week, and kept apart from life’s practical duties, is no religion at all. It is but a sham, a make-believe, a hollow mockery.

But after all, this is the idea which many have of religion. To their minds religion is associated with sermons, with the study of the Bible, with attending prayer-meeting, with giving to missions, but is widely apart from the plain, ordinary, practical affairs of daily life. Such mistake the character and scope of Christian living.

Christianity is not a theory, a belief, a profession; rather it is a life dedicated to God. “Christ in you, the hope of glory,”—this constitutes Christianity in its practical manifestation. One possessing this experience will be an everyday Christian,— a Christian at home, as well as at the neighbors’; in the marketplace or shop or field, as well as at the prayer-meeting; in the kitchen, working over the hot stove, or training careless, noisy children, equally as at the mothers’ meeting.

Christianity is equal to every need. Its highest and sweetest revelation is in the little, practical things of life. In darkness, in obscurity, in the stress and storm of daily living, it shines the brightest. Let us seek for an every-day religion, one which will stand the test of every practical need. F. M. W.