HONOR IN CHRISTIANS

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 14, 1856

HONOR IN CHRISTIANS.

Your article last week on “An Immoral Gospel,” is suggestive. Said a legal gentleman to us recently in conversation, “How is it that church members are not as honorable and punctual in business as other men?” We attempted to question the truth of the application. “But,” he continued, “this will hardly do.” I asked a gentleman in an extensive business, the other day, himself a member of a Christian church, “What class of men Mr. ——, have you found to be the most honorable and punctual in fulfilling their business engagements?” “Sir,” he replied, “I am sorry to say it, but it has been those who have made no public profession of religion!”

Here is expressed a conviction which is very common, that the professed disciples of Christ do not, as business men, manifest so delicate a sense of honor and so nice a regard to punctuality in their engagements as are expected of them. Without expressing any opinion as to the truthfulness of this conviction, we may offer a few thoughts suggested by the above conversation.

The first is a query whether our religious teachers and the prominent members of our churches have not, in their zeal to defend the doctrine of salvation by grace, neglected to insist sufficiently upon the importance of exhibiting a high morality in all the transactions of life. Ought there not to be seen in every one who takes upon himself the obligations of a disciple of Christ the purest morality and the most delicate and correct sense of honor?—Watchman & Reflector.