Can Experience Save Us?
By Christian Advocate
EXPERIENCE as a teacher has a good many limitations. The man who drinks, and becomes a worthless, hopeless drunkard, does so over the experience of thousands. The young man who smokes his first cigaret, does so against the experience of a host of victims. The young girl who listens to the wicked and alluring suggestions of some young villain seeking her destruction, knows that experience of others teaches her a different lesson. If the experiences of mankind were heeded, there would be no need of anything beyond; but unfortunately for mankind, experience of others does not convince, or at least effectively control those having no experience of their own. Even our own experiences do not govern our own conduct. There is no other name given under heaven whereby we can be saved but the name of Christ.