All May Be Saved

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One great difference between the Christian and the non-Christian worker is this: non-Christian workers say that there is a certain proportion of men who cannot be reached any way. As a modern English author has said, “There is no substitute for a good heart, and no remedy for a bad one.” O frightful gospel that some of the philanthropists of our day are preaching! Is that all the message they have to the world—no remedy for a bad heart? What does the parable of the lost coin mean if, though lost, there was no gleam of its original luster? What does the parable of the lost sheep mean, if there was not some dumb, inarticulate longing for the shelter of the fold? And what does the parable of the lost son mean, if there was not in those distant fields a cry of longing for the father’s home and heart?

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