CHURCHANITY AND CHRISTIANITY.

Northern Advocate, 4 May 1933, Page 8

CHURCHANITY AND CHRISTIANITY.

To the Editor,

Sir. —Churchanity and Christianity are not the same thing, not always go together, but most Christians belong to some church. While making allowances for a lot of spurious imitations, there arc in every church a few devout men and women who have some of the Spirit of Christ in them, and are striving to make themselves worthy to receive more. These are the salt of the earth, that keep our civilisation from going bad. They have their failings, but try to overcome them, and according to their lights, each is working for i Christ and His cause, the salvation of j all humanity who desire it, by establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, when His will would be done instead of iniquity. Instead of robber ruio, with selfishness and vanity dominating everything, and evil sustained by force and fraud, love and justice would prevail. It would not be heaven, but a paradise compared with what it is now. The Christian nations have just been keeping alive the remembrance of Christ’s great sacrifice for His cause. Like all true reformers, ‘‘His cause” was more to Him than His life, and He was quite ready to be its first martyr if by so doing He could do more for His cause than by living. He justified the sacrifice by saying: “And I. being lifted up, will draw all men unto Me.” He knew’ that. His death and the manner of it, would appeal more to the divine in man than His life, beautiful as that had been. The Jews, by rejecting God’s representative, and condemning Him tb a felon’s death wdiile clamouring for the release of a robber in His stead, condemned themselves, and incidentally the rest of the world, to many centuries of robber rule, with all that it entails. Their cry, “His bloou be on us and our children,” brought a curse on them that is still working, for of all people the Jew’s have been the most persecuted. The Gentiles, as re-

presented by Pilate, have also had their share of tribulation, for the Roman governor allowed great injustice to he done for fear of endangering his own position. Is the world ready to reverse the verdict it gave then, and accept Him who gave the only permanent solution of all our social problems? If so, liberation is not far off, and the 1900 years of stewing in our own wicked juice has made us see the error of our ways. I believe that the victory for Christ and His cause is only delayed by lack of unity between the churches, each only working and praying for its own success, often indifferent, even antagonistic, to the work of other churches. Differences of opinion there may always be on matters of little importance, but if all co-operate for the great victory, we will .soon see the dawn of a better day. It should over be remembered that those- who are for us are not against, us, and that a victory for one over the forces of evil, is a victory for all.—l am, etc., A VISIONARY.