What is essential? . rthe purpose of helping others instead of savinghimself. The possession of these qualities will pre-sumably lead him into conformity with someprevalent type of Christian observance, a con-formity wherein he may publicly acknowledgehis consecration to service, and whereby he[21] Wi^at ijs €$^mtial may make his service as efficacious as his conformity will be an expression of hisChristlikeness. It cannot in itself cause hisChristlikeness. The possession of these qualities in the presentstage of the development of Christs religionwill compel the Christian to do c
What is essential? . rthe purpose of helping others instead of savinghimself. The possession of these qualities will pre-sumably lead him into conformity with someprevalent type of Christian observance, a con-formity wherein he may publicly acknowledgehis consecration to service, and whereby he[21] Wi^at ijs €$^mtial may make his service as efficacious as his conformity will be an expression of hisChristlikeness. It cannot in itself cause hisChristlikeness. The possession of these qualities in the presentstage of the development of Christs religionwill compel the Christian to do certain thingswhich were not thought of in Christs time. Itmay force him to believe some things whichwere unbelievable before Christs leaven hadleavened the mass of the worlds the spirit which vitalizes his beliefs and ac-tuates his deeds will be in him the fruit of thegerminal spirit of Christ. The essential Christian is one who strives to beactuated by the spirit of Christ. [22] CHAPTER SECOND CreeD?. Sec. 1. A Popular Demand of the Day T is quite the fashion in thesedays to belittle any definiteform of Christian subscription has beenrelegated to the realms of ob-livion not only by the outsidecritics of the religion of Jesus, but even by someof its most prominent exponents. Give us apractical religion, not a speculative philosophy,is a demand of the day. And in answer to thisdemand, episcopates and presbyteries are over-hauling their ancient formulas of faith, whilesome independent churches have already filedaway the creeds of their fathers, substitutingtherefor simple declarations of Christian pur-pose, and short covenants of church popular demand for a practical religion[23] ^i^at tjs €jSi8ent(al is expressive of a particular stage of the develop-ment of the religion of Christ. Indeed it isone of the signs which seem to indicate thebeginning of a new epoch of Christian activ-ity. If one were to attempt to describe in aword the mani
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