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The Fundamentals tionizing. There is no social service worker in America today whose work can compare, in the very results for which the social service program aims, with that of Sunday’s. And so the Sunday School of true evangelism will do an effective work in social service; but it will do it in the Lord’s way. One last word. If the Sunday School is really to do its work as an evangelizing agent, the Sunday School must con sist of workers whose personal lives are radiant with victory. The Sunday School of true evangelism declares with con vincing power the message of the victorious life. Here is an evangel, a Good News, which is all too new to many a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ who rejoices in the Sunday School as his field of service. But our Lord wants it to be the experienced possession of His every fol lower. Evangelism that is limited to the Good News that there is freedom from the penalty of our sins is only a half-way evangelism. It is a crippled, halting evangelism. If we would tell “that sweet story of old,” let us tell the whole story. And the whole story is that our Lord Jesus Christ came, not only to pay the penalty of our sins, but to break the power o f our sin. He laid aside His glory and came from heaven to earth, not only that men might be saved from dying the second death, but also that they might live without sinning in this present life. Here is Good News indeed; so good that to many it sounds too good to be true. But, praise God, it is true! When the Holy Spirit says to us, “Sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace,” He means it. When Paul declared in the exultant joy of the Spirit, “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin,” he meant it. It was true. And the same Spirit of life in Christ Jesus is making men free today from the law of sin, when they are ready to take Him at His word. When the beloved Apostle wrote, under the
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