Personal Responsibility for Human Salvation
Where people are governed from above by a class of men in political or religious affairs, they are not affected by a sense of personal responsibility for the salvation of man as those whose salvation is individual. Among Christians of the evangelical type there is a strong sense of personal accountability to God and man, and a development of common or public sentiment which works along the same line of promoting human salvation. Each individual and the whole body feel the need of casting into the scale all possible weight of conduct, example, and influence, to promote the welfare of man in all respects.—The Watchman, Baptist.