p. 16 | What It Would Do by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 12, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 44.

What It Would Do.

By Editor

In an article on "The Passion for Christ," a recent number of the Sunday School Times well says: "The religion that never brings us into real contact with human need, never drives us into the places where life-and-death struggles are taking place, can never be a religion of fire, for it is not a religion of reality, and therefore not a religion of triumph. If we could shake our 'family,' not to say 'fashionable,' churches into the 'slums' for actual rescue work; if we could sink some of our earnest but essay-writing ministers 'down among the dead men,' seeking, and by God's grace saving, lost souls; if we could change some of our 'evening services' from 'musicales' and 'preludes' and 'lectures' into downright evangelistic efforts 'meaning business,'—we should find a new flush coming into some pale spiritual cheeks, a new tone into some voices, and a new grip into some hands."