Only consistent Christianity, through the power of the risen Christ and His omnipotent Spirit, can (and shall) defeat anti-Christian communism and triumph on a cosmic scale. The Church of Christ must once again live according to “all the counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). It is not sufficient for Christians, with the undoubtedly dedicated Breckinbridge, just to “preach the gospel to every creature,” vital though this undoubtedly is. In addition, we must say with the more consistent Thornwell (Collected Writings, IV, p. 48-49), that Christians must also subdue the entire cosmos to the glory of God:
We may differ from Dr. Breckinbridge as to the competency of the Gospel dispensation, under augmented measures of the Spirit, to subdue the world to Christ but we are heartily at one with him as to the duty of the Church to preach the Gospel to every creature. We may differ from him as to the state of things preceding and introduced by the second advent of Christ, but we are at one with him as to the necessity of watching and praying and struggling for His coming. It is the great hope of the future, as universal evangelization is the great duty of the present…
