6 May 1919 A.D. Prof. J.Gresham Machen: “The Church in the War”
6 May 1919 A.D. Prof. J.Gresham Machen: “The Church in the War” Machen, J. Gresham. “May 6: The Church in the War, by J.G. Machen.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 6 May 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/05/may-6-the-church-in-the-war-by-j-g-machen/ . Accessed 6 May 2015. May 6: The Church in the War, by J. G. Machen Perhaps one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read from the pen of J. Gresham Machen, not widely known, written during World War I. Here he dissects his times, of which ours are just a continuation. Machen again proves himself profoundly prescient, a keen observer grounded in and speaking from the vantage point of the Scriptures:— “During the past century a profound spiritual change has been produced in the whole thought and life of the world — no less a change than the substitution of paganism for Christianity as the dominant principle of life.” The Church in the War In many cases the church has done nobly in the war....