The New Redemption; A Call to the Church to Reconstruct Society According to the Gospel of Christ - Softcover
Synopsis
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Excerpt: ... IV. THE REALITY OF SALVATION. Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved.-- Acts xvi. 31. It is a question whether many who are known as Christians have a clear conception of what the Scriptures mean by salvation. False and artificial notions of salvation have borne fruit in the professional Christianity which substitutes opinion for faith, and ecclesiasticism for life. The body of Christendom has outgrown its soul. There is as much difference between the aims and energy of the modern church, the passion for purity, the unqualified devotion to service, of the apostolic church, or of certain branches of the church in great days of revival and reformation, as there is between a living man, active with the vigor of sound health, and a luxurious invalid. I am not sure but decrease, rather than increase, will be the divine method of preparing the church to save the world. It may be that a small fraction of the present membership of Christian churches, a fraction of the present occupants of Christian pulpits, divinely selected, spiritually enlightened and impassioned, could do more to make way for the coming of Christ's kingdom than the present activities of the church could accomplish in a thousand generations. The problem of how to save the church must be solved before the church V- can save the world. It is idle for us to think and talk of converting the race until we find whether we have any adequate knowledge of how much is involved in receiving and giving the salvation of Jesus Christ. It is a religious self-flattery to devise ways and means to carry the gospel to every creature, if we do not devote ourselves to understanding and obeying the gospel. Salvation is not a change of worlds, but a change of the moral basis of life; a change of the moral properties out of which one...
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