Identifier: christendomannod02gran (find matches)
Title: Christendom anno Domini MDCCCCI ... A presentation of Christian conditions and activities in every country of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, by more than sixty competent contributors
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Grant, William Daniel, 1853- ed
Subjects: Church history -- 20th century Christianity Missions
Publisher: New York : C. Holt
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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on in our day that my text rebukes. There aremen and women spending their time in delectation over their saved state,going about from prayer-meeting to prayer-meeting, and from church tochurch, telling how happy they are. But show them a subscription paper,or ask them to go and visit the sick, or tell them to reclaim a wanderer, orBf)eak out for some unpopular Christian enterprise, and they have bronchitis,or stitch in the side, or sudden attacks of grip. Their religion is all wing,and no hand. They can fly heavenward, but they cannot reach out earth-ward. The highest type of religion says little about itself, but is busy for Godand in helping to the heavenly shore the crew and passengers of this ship-wrecked planet. Such people are busy now up the dark lanes of our cities,and all through the mountain glens, and down in the quarries where thesunlight has never visited, and amid the rigging, helping to take in anotherreef before the Caribbean whirlwind.—T. De Witt Talmaqe.—Ed.) 376
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JERRY McAULEY. RESCUE WOliK. 377 It is but within the last half century that an attempt has beenmade in any degree commensurate with the requirements of thecase to reach and to rescue what is frequently called the submergedclasses. This rescue work, while receiving the cordial sympathyand support of the Christian Church, as it should, originated in theprayerful thought, as it is now in the hands and on the hearts, ofthose who themselves have known the bitterness and the foulness ofsin. It was recognized that the church through its ordinary serviceswas incapable of reaching the very classes which most needed thesympathy and the support of Christian love and helpfulness. Inorder to gain their confidence and win them from their evil waysit was not enough that the church should open its doors and sayCome in; the Masters call to go out into the highways andhedges and compel them to come in must be obeyed. As Dr. Pierson says in his Forward Movements, these brethrenof ours are in a pit so d

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