January 13

Christianity has not yet been tried. My friends, no man dares to condemn the Christian faith to-day, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain, not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men, not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial

and become ready to show what it can do. Therefore, we may struggle against our sin in order that men may be saved around us, and not simply that our own souls may be saved.