Easy-Chair Religion

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 11, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 31.

Easy-Chair Religion

THERE is one religion of toil and another of talk. The easy-chair is an ideal pulpit for a lazy man. It is pleasant to feel that we are regenerating the world whilst we are taking our ease. It is pleasant and—useless. The easy-chair seems to breed wisdom. The man who never fired a gun or marched a mile can tell just where Napoleon and Wellington blundered. The man who never drove a spike, or pulled a lever, or handled a brake, can tell the world just how a railway ought to be run. And the man whose voice is seldom heard in prayer, whose hand has forgotten how to give, and who never touches the church burdens with one of his fingers, is sure that he knows full well what the church needs, and he can give advice to every one, from the preacher to the sexton. If churches could only be run with good advice! But, alas, it takes more than that!—Christian Guardian, Toronto.