"Are You a Professor of Religion?"
Not long ago conversing with a friend with whom I had been acquainted for some months, I incidentally alluded to the church to which I belonged. My companion looked up with some surprise, and asked, "Are you a professor of religion?" I was startled by her tone, but answered her inquiry, and we resumed our conversation. Many, many times has that question come to my mind, and perhaps it may not be inappropriate to some of my fellow-Christians. I had evidently been living, perhaps unconsciously, without showing by my daily walk and conversation that I was on the Lord's side. "Are you a professor of religion?" and if so, in what respect are you different from others? Are you confessing Christ before men, before your family, your friends and associates, in your daily life and conduct? If the work of grace is going on in the heart, it will be seen in the life: "by their fruits ye shall know them."