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Can a Man be a Christian on a Pound a Week?
Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these
THE ARTICLE.
I AM asked in this article to reply to the above question, and my first impulse is to answer—Certainly. Not only can a man be a Christian on a pound a week, but I do not see how he could possibly be anything else. He might not be much of a theologian, and he could not well be a church-goer, but a Christian he must be.
Let us define the terms we are using.
The man I have in my mind is a fully-matured human being, made in the image of God, who takes an intelligent interest in his own affairs, and in the affairs of the State of which he is a citizen. He works for an employer in some