To fall in with every catch-phrase which goes whirling through the air betrays a want of thought. It is too common among preachers and newspaper writers. We hear a great deal lately of "Applied Christianity." Have those who have caught up this phrase paused to think what it implies? If they have, then they are convicted of having in mind a Christianity which is not applied. There may be theories about Christianity which are not applied, but they are as far from Christianity as a theory about farming is from farming. Drop the phrase, and repudiate its implication.

      Another of these catch-phrases is, "The Christ Spirit." What does this mean? I suppose it is intended to mean the Spirit of Christ. This last expression occurs twice in the Scriptures (Rom. 8:9; 1 Pet. 1:11), but in both instances, as the context plainly shows, it means the [150] Spirit of God. If this is what is meant by the phrase, why not say so, instead of adopting an expression which is both unscriptural and ungrammatical? President Loos has of late very effectually rebuked the use of the noun disciple as an adjective in the phrase, Disciple Church; it is a blunder of the same kind to use the official title Christ as an adjective in the phrase, Christ Spirit. Keep your heads level, brethren, and don't be dazzled by every fad in thought and expression which happens to be floating about. It is a wholesome rule to call Bible things by Bible names; there is a volume of wisdom in it.

[SEBC 150-151]