Public morals / [James Marchant, editor].

Date:
[between 1900 and 1910]
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Credit: Public morals / [James Marchant, editor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Opportunity, in my chapter on “True Individual- ism” in my Studies Scientific and Social. To that and the preceding chapter I have nothing now to add. THE REVIVAL OF THE CHURCH I By Reader Harris, K.C. I am convinced that to prevent evil is always better than to repair the evil it has done. To punish the wrong-doers is right, to prevent them becoming wrong-doers is better—better both for the sufferers, for the culprits, and for the community. You may punish vice without securing virtue; but if you secure virtue you prevent vice. This should be the primary object of all efforts : the elimination of vice by the inculcation of virtue. It is to the Church in all its branches that we must look. The basal step in moral reform is the revival of the Church—we do not adequately estimate the influence of the Church’s example upon the public character. A true revival of the Christian religion in all its original purity and power would carry with it such a wave of practical righteousness as would cleanse the flagrant evils of our land as nothing else ever will. Let us pray, therefore, that the Holy Spirit of God may come upon the Church of Christ in Pentecostal measure, purity and power, and that right speedily.