Climbing Up Some Other Way.
The Burning Bush is a tremendously radical holiness paper, and its cartoons are by no means works of art, but they do at times present some striking lessons which are worthy of notice. For instance, the number of August 3 has a cartoon which illustrates very well the Institutional Church, and the various devices that have been adopted by ministers of all denominations nearly of getting people into the church by some other means, rather than by preaching the old-fashioned Gospel. Heaven is represented as being beyond a wall great and high. The strait gate is presented before us through which one can go only by leaving his sin behind. Various ladders are placed up against the wall, and men are endeavoring to get access to heaven by climbing these ladders and still holding on to their bundles of sin. One ladder is labeled "Free Hospitals," another "Prohibition," another "Civic Reform," (a tremendously short ladder), another "Working Men's Homes," and so on; while underneath is the Scripture: "Strait is the gate which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Crude as this illustration is, it teaches a tremendous and needed lesson; there is no salvation outside of Jesus Christ. He who saves not in sin but from sin. And there is no other way but that expressed in His teaching: "Ye must be born again."