A Convenient Religion by L. E. F.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 9, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 19.

A Convenient Religion

By L. E. F.

FRANK MORAN, the prize fighter recently defeated by the champion, Willard, declares that he is going to become a Roman Catholic Billy Sunday (evangelist) when he gets through fighting.

“My idea,” he says, “is that I could do an awful lot of good just telling young fellows what I have learned about life. I would not try to convert any one. I wouldn’t care what a man believed, but I would try to make everybody live up to the things he believed.”

What a convenient religion these converts without conversion would have! The Son of God has left this record: “Except ye be converted, . . . ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Matt. 18: 3. The apostle Peter unequivocally declared that a person must be converted to have his sins blotted out. Acts 3: 19.

Oh, that men might learn the utter futility of Christless morality! The inevitable failure of every such scheme means the eternal loss of every unconverted soul. L. E. F.