No Half-Way Religion

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Nov 11, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 15.

No Half-Way Religion.

IN an editorial discussing "Religion—The Most Practical Thing in the World," Appleton's Magazine for August says:

"The churches suffer from a terrible blight, the blight of Sunday religion. You can't be religious on Sunday and irreligious on Monday. You can't, any more than you can be a tall man on Tuesday and a short one on Wednesday. We talk of religion as if it were a separate department of life. We label it and bottle it and prescribe it for use on certain occasions. We particularly recommend it to old ladies, children, and invalids. Religion is either good for everybody at all times or for nobody at any time. We talk of religious and irreligious men, but every man has in him a spark of the divine which he can either kindle into a living flame or neglect until it is all but extinguished. Religion is a spur to all that is best in life, a spur to those things without which life is not worth living. A democracy must have religion as a check on the one hand and a spur on the other."