“We all understand,” said he, speaking very quietly, “what we have undertaken to do.  We pledge ourselves to do everything in our daily lives after asking the question, ‘What would Jesus do?’ regardless of what may be the result to us.  Some time I shall be able to tell you what a marvelous change has come over my life within a week’s time.  I cannot now.  But the experience I have been through since last Sunday has left me so dissatisfied with my previous definition of Christian discipleship that I have been compelled to take this action.  I did not dare begin it alone.  I know that I am being led by the hand of divine love in all this.  The same divine impulse must have led you also.

“Do we understand fully what we have undertaken?”

“I want to ask a question,” said Rachel Winslow.  Every one turned towards her.  Her face glowed with a beauty that no physical loveliness could ever create.

“I am a little in doubt as to the source of our knowledge concerning what Jesus would do.  Who is to decide for me just what He would do in my case?  It is a different age.  There are many perplexing questions in our civilization that are not mentioned in the teachings of Jesus.  How am I going to tell what He would do?”

“There is no way that I know of,” replied the pastor, “except as we study Jesus through the medium of the Holy Spirit.  You remember what Christ said speaking to His disciples about the Holy Spirit:  “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth:  for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak:  and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.  He shall glorify me; for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you.  All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine:  therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you.’  There is no other test that I know of.  We shall all have to decide what Jesus would do after going to that source of knowledge.”

“What if others say of us, when we do certain things, that Jesus would not do so?” asked the superintendent of railroads.

“We cannot prevent that.  But we must be absolutely honest with ourselves.  The standard of Christian action cannot vary in most of our acts.”

“And yet what one church member thinks Jesus would do, another refuses to accept as His probable course of action.  What is to render our conduct uniformly Christ-like?  Will it be possible to reach the same conclusions always in all cases?” asked President Marsh.

Mr. Maxwell was silent some time.  Then he answered, “No; I don’t know that we can expect that.  But when it comes to a genuine, honest, enlightened following of Jesus’ steps, I cannot believe there will be any confusion either in our own minds or in the judgment of others.  We must be free from fanaticism on one hand and too much caution on the other.  If Jesus’ example is the example for the world to follow, it certainly must be feasible to follow it.  But we need to remember this great fact.  After we have asked the Spirit to tell us what Jesus would do and have received an answer to it, we are to act regardless of the results to ourselves.  Is that understood?”