p. 16 | A Balanced Work

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 1, 1910

A Balanced Work

A WRITER in The Baptist Chronicle, in speaking of denominational work, points out the danger there is of giving all attention to one branch. He speaks of the various phases of Baptist work, and declares that all denominational enterprises “should be comprehended, in our thinking, as one work. To build around one single enterprise means to narrow down the life and develop lopsided churches.” He further suggests that all the men engaged in different departments of the work, “each in his own sphere of special work, to be truly denominational, must stand for the larger interests of the denomination as a whole. . . . It is only as each of these interests stands for its proper relation to the work as a whole can it hope to develop into a full-rounded and healthy denominational life and service.” All of which is true, and all of which emphasizes the great importance of placing men at the head of different branches of work who can comprehend not simply their branch, but the whole work. And the application is a good deal broader than the Baptist denomination.