More Principle and Less Politics
The Occident says what ought to be emphatically true: "The Protestant church knows that her strength does not rest on a priest, or pope, or any man, however great. . . . The strength of the Protestant Christian is in pure character, right living, and holy communion with God through Jesus Christ, the Saviour." But the rule of right living is not in man-made creeds. The power of right living is not in the enforcement of religious dogmas by civil law. The rule is God's holy law. The demonstration of that rule is Jesus Christ. And the power of the right living is in the gospel of his grace through faith. Would that the Protestant church really knew this. We would find just now more principle and less politics in the so-called Protestant churches.