Living In a Revolutionary World

Chronicle (Levin), 3 October 1949, Page 4

Living In a Revolutionary World

T. ■» L u ■ - "If you refuse to countenance revolution in your henrts you wili meet revolution in your streets. We live in a revolutionary world," said Rev. A. Saimond, preaching inSt. Andrew's Presbyterian Ohurch yesterday. v "Nothing les's than. the radical renewal «of man and of fiis environment can'be the end of the proclamation of the Gospel. A, communioy • that imagined the Gospel coul'd be preached°and that all things would continue as they were, misunderstood the true nature of the Gospel. The proclamation of the Gospel reached men at the deepest levels of nqman experience, and changes were wrought at the very springs of human existence. When Christianity ceases to change men and women something vital has fallen out of it. *The Gospel transforms , individuals, but revolution for the individual is not the last word. The Gospel' is intended for total man in his whole life situation and indivMuals are saved not merely as indivi'duals but as members of a family— the family of God — 'ihe life oi which is always larger and richer and with^a far wider outreach - than the most perfect individual life can ever have. "For the Church, individual salvation, though fundamental, has never been enough. God's grace achieves even greater miracles,"