CHRISTIAN PROGRESS by Thoro Harris

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 10, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 19.

CHRISTIAN PROGRESS.

By Thoro Harris

BY THORO HARRIS.

Two smooth surfaces, as of glass, will adhere together perfectly provided there be not a particle of dust on either one. But if there be even the minutest semblance of dust, you can not clap one upon the other. Similarly the smallest error of the life will prevent it from adhering to the Life divine. It is the little sin that severs the connection, the little fox that spoils the vine.

The Christian pilgrimage is like riding the bicycle. There are but few who can perform the almost impossible task of standing still on one of them; and these are generally found in our museums posing as wonders. On the bicycle you must either move ahead or fall off. In Christian experience one must advance or else lose his balance. It is a campaign and a continuous conquest all the way to the pearly gate.

Tho this principle is of universal application, men somehow imagine that it can be evaded in matters of a purely spiritual nature. My arm may to-day be perfectly sound and free from every taint of corruption; but if I carry it about in a sling and neglect to exercise it, it must eventually wither. Physicians assert that it will decrease in size one-half an inch yearly; and if this process be continued, the arm will finally become a lifeless member.

Therefore we are exhorted to "walk in truth" (3 John 4); for walking denotes progression; and the Christian life is one continuous march to the Eternal City.