If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.
The reconciling gospel is always at the forefront of the church’s social action, because a full belly is not better than a reconciled soul.
The past and future Are conquered, and reconciled.