Religion: Mighty Work

"The Church is curing a few headaches, reducing several fevers, and healing some lameness; it is serving coffee and sandwiches to the poor and suffering; but it is doing no mighty work. . . . Thinking of God as a glorified Rotarian will never create a disturbance in the human conscience. Until a man has come to an evangelic experience of the conviction of sin, all other doctrines are tinkling brass and sounding cymbals."

Thus last week did Rev. Dr. Charles Jefferson, 75, high-minded honorary minister of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle, address the 56th annual...

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