The Christian Faith in the Modern World
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Christian Literature, General Christianity
| Author: | J. Gresham Machen | ISBN: | 1230001944419 |
| Publisher: | CrossReach Publications | Publication: | September 30, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | J. Gresham Machen |
| ISBN: | 1230001944419 |
| Publisher: | CrossReach Publications |
| Publication: | September 30, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
At the very beginning, I may as well tell you plainly that I am not going to talk about the topics that are usually regarded as most timely just now. I am not going to talk to you about the gold standard or about unemployment or about the NRA or about the Brain Trust. Possibly some of you may discover that certain things that I may say have a bearing upon those topics, but those topics are not the topics about which I am going to talk.
Instead, I am going to talk to you about God, and about an unseen world.
May I reasonably expect you to be interested in such very intangible topics as these?
There are many persons who say, "No." We are living, say these persons, in the midst of a serious emergency. One economic system, they say, seems to have broken down, and another is not quite ready to be put into its place. Everywhere are to be found unemployment and distress, almost everywhere there are wars or rumors of wars. In the midst of such distresses, who, these persons say, could be so heartless as to spend his efforts upon doubtful speculations regarding a life beyond the grave? Time enough to deal with that other world when we have set this world in order! Let us deal bravely—so the argument runs—first with the problems that we can see; and then, when we have done that, we may possibly find opportunity afterwards to deal with the unseen and intangible things.
At the very beginning, I may as well tell you plainly that I am not going to talk about the topics that are usually regarded as most timely just now. I am not going to talk to you about the gold standard or about unemployment or about the NRA or about the Brain Trust. Possibly some of you may discover that certain things that I may say have a bearing upon those topics, but those topics are not the topics about which I am going to talk.
Instead, I am going to talk to you about God, and about an unseen world.
May I reasonably expect you to be interested in such very intangible topics as these?
There are many persons who say, "No." We are living, say these persons, in the midst of a serious emergency. One economic system, they say, seems to have broken down, and another is not quite ready to be put into its place. Everywhere are to be found unemployment and distress, almost everywhere there are wars or rumors of wars. In the midst of such distresses, who, these persons say, could be so heartless as to spend his efforts upon doubtful speculations regarding a life beyond the grave? Time enough to deal with that other world when we have set this world in order! Let us deal bravely—so the argument runs—first with the problems that we can see; and then, when we have done that, we may possibly find opportunity afterwards to deal with the unseen and intangible things.
