POWER OF THE GOSPEL

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 7, 1858

POWER OF THE GOSPEL.

I may notice the most interesting fact, that just in proportion as men grow Christ-like in character, they become Christ-like in power. I believe that greater skill in medicine, greater attainments in science, are associated by an indissoluble law with greater grace in men's hearts. The fact is, Christianity is a glorious tree; and science and literature and power are the parasite plants that twine around it depending for support and endurance on it. This is the most delightful fact, that just as a country becomes Christian, that country excels in lordship over disease, over sea and land, and science and literature and philosophy. If you were now to institute a comparison between the nations of the earth you would find that the land that has more Christian light in it, has the most science, literature, philosophy, poetry, and genius in it too.—Cumming on Miracles.