“The Gospel is God’s great agency for the regeneration, the purification, the enlightenment of the world. Its mission is to give light to them that sit in darkness; to comfort the mourner; to discountenance vice and eradicate sin. To accomplish these results there are needed both men and means. Church membership involves the subjection of one’s resources to the service of Christ. A man’s time, his influence, his money, all are to be consecrated — laid upon the altar to be used as the Lord has need. This is the kind of church membership we need to-day.” — T.D. Witherspoon, The Christian’s Surrender to Christ (1885)