Christianity Admits of No Qualification
Christianity admits of no qualification. It admits of no degree or classification. There are degrees of faith manifested in different individuals, but Christianity is Christlikeness—no more, no less. One man discourses on “applied Christianity,” but Christianity is entirely wanting where it is not applied. “Faith without works is dead.” A religious journal grows eloquent in advocacy of “social Christianity,” but anything unsocial is not Christianity. Strange as it may seem, the ideal of this “social Christianity,” is reached in the President’s touring the country and making speeches to the people. But that is about as high as any qualified Christianity could reach. We sometimes speak of “true Christianity” as opposed to “false Christianity,” but the prefix “true” is superfluous, as Christianity is always true. And there is no such thing as false Christianity; there may be a false profession of Christianity, but that is hypocrisy.