ALL the activities of human experience, from the beginning of time, have been influenced by the concepts men have held of other men. There is no basis to uphold society or business affairs but the human thought of what constitutes mankind. The various systems of religion which have influenced the world down through the ages have proven a curse or a blessing in proportion as they have rightly interpreted man and his relation to his neighbor.
It is not necessary within the limits of a short article to argue this conceded fact, that Christianity has proved itself to be the most potent factor for good that the world has ever seen. The nations where the Christian religion prevails express the greatest freedom of thought and life; and this is true, although Christianity as commonly accepted, has been and is so largely intermixed with human conjectures as to differ in many ways from the original teaching of the first Christian, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus himself, in his own individual experience, proved by his spotless life, his great works for others, and his final triumph over the claims of mortality, that his teaching in its purity must be Truth itself; hence it follows that if Christianity, imperfectly understood, has done more for man than any other religion, Christianity, as Jesus taught it, must give to man a perfect rule of conduct.
