Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1917 — Church’s Weakness. [ARTICLE]

Church’s Weakness.

I* is still true that if we will “let him (Jesus) .. . alone,” unencumbered by our doctrine and dogma, unfettered by ritual and ceremony, undistorted by (he~fulse witness of life which denies faith, “all meh will’ believe on him.” Nothing is clearer than the fact that the world’s quarrel Is not with Christ, but with attempted human organization of his Influence. Yet the tragedy, not only of today but of former days also, Is that the church has not been able to leave Christ alone. This is the secret of her too obvious weakness. This is why she has so little spiritual grip' upon the world. She has lost the apostolic spirit of “no man, save Jesus only,” In her own life, and consequently In her message and witness. —The Christian.