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of it with long ages of Christian progress.
And more than this Righ teousness dis
tresses itself not only over sin but also over
weakness, Incompetence, imperfection.
righteousness is idealisto. ut is not content
merely to rectfy faults in the domain OF
human life; it aims to fill it out till it
touches all tue meridians aud oil the par
abes OF its extrene sphere. Christian love
looks abroad upon the doings of men, of all
men, of all men alike, and its heart is big
with the question, what can be done for
the relief of man estate? 1t has already
done much. 1t has freed slaves; it has
abolished CASTE it has lessenod and miti-
gated war; it has substituted international
Intercourse for barbario national hatreds; It
has greatly lessened the distance between
social classes it has distributed q large share
of the benefits and blessings OF life to all
classes except the lowest, and is now with
thoughtful brow and yearning heart bend
ing over this last and most difficult problem,
how to lift and save this lowest class. Let
no man say that the social influence Of
Christianity has not been widespread, bene-
ficent, effective. But Christianity has as
yet achieved but the beginnings of what it
contempates 1t looks for greater things
than these 1t looks for new earth where
ed with the new evanecic spirit, now and
then get glimpses OF what this earth might
be, and shall be as a home for man, when
the principles OF Christianity shall have in
some good degree leavened the mass Of hui
man society. But no Utopia, no Atlantis,
has yet foreshadowed the new regime
which shall be when Christianity comes
forth from the sanctuary and the closet and
abides with men all the day in the senate,
in the forum, in the factory where the full
wages Of the laborer are counted out to him,
in the market place where buyers and sellers
are both gamers by every bargain In the
wide world where each man is free to choose
the calling which best BELTS him and to own
oil that he earns in it. One might be par
doned for thinking that It were good time
for a John the Baptist to stand again be-
fore the people and for each occupant to
ask him again: Master what shall do
An interesting and beautiful exhibition
of the Christian spirit in Christian social
life is given to us in the infant church at
Jerusalem Immediately after tho first great
religious awakening, as We should call it
as though consequent upon that awakening
the communistio life OF the early dis
ciples. All that believed had all things
common. 1t is all told in few words and
then we hear no more OF it. 1t was u short
lived community soon ended by persecution
and dispersion and the natural limitations
of such condition. But coming where it
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TO create new social systems, usually wit
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