Redeeming Power in Christ Only.
In speaking of the Shaw-White murder a daily paper says: ‘That this murder will have a great and redeeming effect on the morals of this great city was to-day’s positive development in the most sensational homicide which New York has known since the Fisk-Stokes case.’ Be not deceived. There is no redeeming power in crime or violence or brutality or war or sin or revelation of corruption of any kind or sort. Persons may be horrified, shocked, awakened; but there will be no true, lasting reform unless men sink out of self and into Christ Jesus. Redeeming power is creative power; and creative power comes to this world through Christ Jesus alone. As long as men hope for reform in the revelation of the need of reform they will be disappointed.