The Cart Before the Horse by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 24, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 39.

The Cart Before the Horse

By Editor

The Cart Before the Horse.—We would not for one moment decry manual labor and education in missionary work. There is gospel in work; there is power for good in work. So also there is in education. But the danger lies in putting these material things, which may or may not be religious, at the forefront, and think, "Now, when this heathen is educated, or this ignorant native taught to do work, that will bring him to Christ." If depended on alone, it will do nothing of the kind. Used as a part of the Gospel of Christ is the only way to use all these various things. The one only thing to depend upon is the grace of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the power of the Spirit of God.