Many who call themselves Christians are mere human moralists. They have refused the gift which alone could enable them to honor Christ by representing Him to the world. The work of the Holy Spirit is to them a strange work. They are not doers of the world. The heavenly principles that distinguish those who are one with Christ from those who are one with the world have become almost indistinguishable. The professed followers of Christ are 316 no longer a separate and peculiar people. The line of demarcation is indistinct. The people are subordinating themselves to the world, to its practices, its customs, its selfishness. The church has gone over to the world in transgression of the law, when the world should have come over to the church in obedience to the law. Daily the church is being converted to the world.

Mange, der kalder sig kristne, er blot mennesker der lever et pænt og retskaffent liv. De har af slået den gave, som alene kunne hjælpe dem at ære Kristus ved at være vidner for ham over for verden. Helligåndens gerning er fremmed for dem. De er ikke ordets gørere. De himmelske principper der gør skel imellem dem, som er ét med Kristus, og dem, som er ét med verden, er næsten umulige at se. De, der bekender sig til at følge Kristus, er ikke længere et særskilt og ejendommeligt folk. Skellet er utydeligt. Guds folk giver efter for verden, for dens skikke, sædvaner og selviskhed. Menigheden har stillet sig på verdens side ved at overtræde loven, i stedet for at verden skulle have stillet sig på menighedens side i lydighed mod loven. Menigheden bliver dag for dag mere lig verden.