What is essential? . ^ the assembly of all those who in their worship would seek to help others as well as themselves. It is the [128] organization of those who, by the public pro-fession of their Christian purpose and bythe mutual participation of their Christian serv-ice, try to minister to others in the spirit ofChrist. [129] CHAPTER SIXTH Sec. 1. Christianity and Personal Salvation FAVORITE word often uponthe lips of the Great Teacherof the Christian religion wasthe word Watch. He badehis hearers watch, for theyknew neither the day northe hour wherein the Son of man cometh.(Matt. 25: 13.)
What is essential? . ^ the assembly of all those who in their worship would seek to help others as well as themselves. It is the [128] organization of those who, by the public pro-fession of their Christian purpose and bythe mutual participation of their Christian serv-ice, try to minister to others in the spirit ofChrist. [129] CHAPTER SIXTH Sec. 1. Christianity and Personal Salvation FAVORITE word often uponthe lips of the Great Teacherof the Christian religion wasthe word Watch. He badehis hearers watch, for theyknew neither the day northe hour wherein the Son of man cometh.(Matt. 25: 13.) He enjoined the spirit of vigi-lance upon his disciples, whose weary bodieswould not let them watch with him for onehour. They were to watch, that they enternot into temptation. (Matt. 26:41.)It seems evident from these and other similarinstructions of Jesus that in his mind vigilancewas one of the requisite modes of true Chris-tian activity. It was not merely a vigilanceimposed by the possible unexpectedness of[1311. I^i^at i^ Cjs^ential death, but a vigilance imposed by the exigenciesof hfe. We are very wrong if we think his parable ofthe ten virgins had reference only to the com-ing of the angel of death. The Bridegroomdoes not come only to take men out of theworld, but also to fit them to live in the are not just to watch that they maybe ready to go to heaven when they die; theyare to watch that they may be ready to makethis world more like heaven while they Bridegroom is the opportunity for serv-ice. The opportunity comes at the most unex-pected moment. Sometimes, therefore, it findsmen ready, and sometimes unready. Somehave supplied the lamps of their personalitieswith the equipment which enables them tograsp the opportunity; and some dillydallying,lackadaisical souls have neglected to providethe necessary personal equipment, indulgingthe fond and futile hope that they can graspthe opportunity and shine in the world with noneed of a costly and pa
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