Christianity Is Life and Power
The devotees of the new "Science of Religion" do not believe in the absoluteness of Christianity. One of them, Professor Troeltsech, thus expresses it (Literary Digest, Dec. 28, 1901): "Christianity is a purely historical phenomenon;" and he tells us that in this conception of Christianity, religion is viewed "as an expression of the relation between man and the Divine." Another, Dr. Max Christlieb, confounds the perverted ideas of Christianity held by its professors with Christianity itself. Of course, to such Christianity must seem like other religions,—a theory, a set of rules, a system of morality. But it is much more than all these. Christianity is the life of God sent down to men, manifested normally in righteous, holy living. It can not be compared with other religions. It is not so much moral teaching that the world needs; it is life, power, to live righteously. Christianity is the only religion having the life, and he who does not know this, let him be called by what name he may, does not know Christianity.