A Good Test by William Jennings Bryan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jul 15, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 29.

A Good Test.

By William Jennings Bryan

CHRIST presents a perfect life. Now, if when one looks upon that perfect life of Christ, it inspires him with a desire to make his life as nearly like that life as possible, and he strives each day to approximate to that perfection, sorrowing when he sins, not merely when he is caught at it; I say if that is his attitude toward Christ, then I believe that he has been born again. But if when he looks at that perfect example, he tries to find some excuse for not changing his own life, tries to get rid of the authority, tries to get rid of the example, tries to find some excuse for not allowing it to be binding on him, no matter to what church he belongs, he needs a new birth. —W. J. Bryan.