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no salt in anything for breakfast next morning, and the meal was so insipid that the king could not enjoy it. He then saw the force of his daughter’s remark. She loved him so well that nothing was good without him.” Yes, salt gives flavor—and Christians, real, consecrated Christians, give a good flavor to their communities. Salt prevents the spread of corruption. So Christ ex pects His disciples to exercise a restrain ing influence in the world. Salt works si lently and unseen, but effectively—so should one side of our Christian life be. But Christ in the next verse says, “Ye are the light of the world.” Light is far-reach ing and brilliant. This figure of speech symbolizes the active side of the Christian's life—the part men see. Both aspects are necessary. But unless we are willing to be ordinary, inconspicuous “salt,” we can never be bright for Christ as light givers. If Christians really looked at the politi cal situation remembering their "salt” character and their light-giving power, our national, state, and local government would be different. Christians in official positions would be conscious of the active, prayerful support of the Lord’s people and would find their hands strengthened in their fight against graft and other corrupting influ ences in political life. America needs ever to remember her only hope for true happi ness: “Blessed [‘happy’] is the nation whose God is the Lord.” Christianity was never intended by its divine Author to be confined to the four walls of a church. Its mission is to enter the city and purge it of its moral leprosy, and to take hold of and cure men and women of all the moral and physical ills which pollute and destroy both soul and body in hell. This it can do only by enter ing each individual heart: and to do this, the fact must be carried personally and impress ed upon the individual conscience that he or she must accept Jesus Christ as Saviour. And the preachers and professed Chris tians who are not, in some effectual meas ure at least, so carrying and so presenting the gospel to the lost are a travesty on the name "Christian.”—G. B. F. H allock . II. A lternatives If you take a red-hot ball out of a fur nace and lay it down upon a frosty moor, two processes will go on—the ball will lose heat, and the surrounding atmosphere will gain it. If you are not heating the world, the world is freezing you. Every man in fluences all men around him, and receives influences from them; and if there be not more exports than imports, if there be not more influences and mightier influences ray ing out from him than are coming into him, he is a poor creature and at the mercy of circumstances. "Men must either be ham mers or anvil”—must either give blows or receive them. I am afraid that a great many of us who call ourselves Christians get a great deal more harm from the world than we ever dream of doing good to it. Re member this: you are "the salt of the Helps for the Leader i C hanging th e C ity
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