We can no longer say people are not ready to receive the Truth, for there is a large class who are really hungering and thirsting for a higher and more practical standard of Christianity than they now enjoy; and unbelievers are waiting to be convinced that the religion of Jesus Christ is not a picture of the imagination, but a practical, every-day reality. All they want is the assurance that this system is not a humbug, not a new-fangled ism or ology, but Truth that can be demonstrated. Unless we can back up what we say by demonstration, we are no more than any other theorists. Our work is not to antagonize or tear down other organizations, but to build, on our own foundation, a structure on the rock of Truth that can not be moved by the combined and seemingly terrible forces of error, but will stand through all eternity,—must stand, though all else be lost.
How little we realize the magnitude of this work—to judge others by myself. What a great responsibility rests upon those who know the Truth! Upon us devolves the duty of carrying this blessed gospel to those to whom "the man of sin" has not been revealed. Men will leave home, family, friends, and give their fortunes, and their lives perhaps, for love of country. Why is it accounted such a sacrifice to leave all for Christ? Where our treasure is, there will our hearts be also.
If the world was ever in need of workers, honest and true, it is now. There is a great battle to be fought. It has already commenced. Let us with one accord buckle on the armor, and never look back until we have won the grandest victory the world has ever seen, the triumph of universal Truth. People must see, sooner or later, that Christianity does not consist in forms, ceremonies, outward worship, and conformity to the world.
