The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-14
EDITOR sTEaD's NEW CHURCH.
1t Must Include All Men and Proclaim the
Latest Truths-A Haven for Cranks.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The latest prominent man MIR. Raymond
Biathwayt has interviewed is Mr.. w. T..
Stead. who talked about his modern church
and how ne is founding it.
II said to him." writes Mr.. pathways,
pray tell me for the benefit of my readers
what was your first and general idea in
bringing ont the Review of Reviews. What
was Its ethical intentp
quite promptly hereplied;A The funda-
mental necessity for on organ that should
have one foot in New York and the other
foot In London. i want to make a link
that will help in joining together the W hole
of tho English speaking world. L am a
preacher. sometimes from q platform, some
sometimes at the editors desk, but where
ever am, am always o preacher
but now, sand 1. how are you going to
do this preachiDgr
church, church which shall include all
sorts and conditions of men, which shall
run theater, keep public house, and not
exclude atheists from it's membership if
Manning used TO say. 'All good is of God;
stick 10 that" i try to do so. God reveals
himself In the highest thought of the best
people. The church must find out the
latest trnth about all vital things, and
teach II 10 the masses Is the church doing
thisf Two years ago went to Rome to sec
those who were nominally at the head of
ChristcndOm, anC to ascertain ut first hand
whether they were willing and able TO dis
charge the duties belonging TO tho religious
leadership OF the world.
i think every man who sees what he
thinks the church should do. should, In his
own humble way, endeavOr first to rouse
the church 10 do that work, .and ii the
church refuses he should then try. to the
best of hie ability. to do the work himself
In however small q way
But what is 1t that You are trying to
do that you think the church should have
doneP
Ito endeavor to bring, month by mon tn,
at the lowest possible price, the best
thought of our modern thinkers. the most
vivid picture of the divine but human
world, its unity, Its aspirations and Its
sutierings. and q record of the most prac-
teal methods by which good can be done
among men. before the widest possible
number OF my fellow w. creatures is my
aim. IL is the old Catholic ideal struggling
Tor realization under modern forms. free
from ecclesiastical domination or mediaval
suDerstitions. / praise up even the HARM
less, necessary crank, as they cell them in
America. But do you realize this. that il
IS Jnst among those very cranks that y on
always find the new TRUTH The new
teacher is always regarded as hereto,
=
lhave learned with Lowell that. "All steps
TO the Father turn, when self the feet hav q
sDurned.p i believe IN poor Jem Bludso;
so did Kingsley. The Lord wasn't goin'
men" Thus. you see. in my own
clumsy. tentative fashion ! am try
ing to build mp what is practi-
cally new church. l want to build them
in every part of the world-taking the
world. that is. by towns and Cities wont
people To realize that church is the ASSOC
citation for common effort of all who aspire
after the realization of the ideal. AS a
practical step toward this l should like TO
see established a spiritual counterpart of
the Town Council in England or the City
Hall in America IN every city in the En-
gIish -speaking world. Let preachers re-
alzs The. Importance of everyday matters
OF bodily and mental health: The m ain
and perhaps added Mr.. Stead. with mer.
| ry laugh. "a good deal moro pressing.
"'Christ If he were on earth, would open
the churches as play grounds for the little
ones If no other places were available.
am sure He would be very strong on the
main drain. Now, as mattersof fact, here
| in England. ana dare say in America OF
| Australia, the churches know nothing and
| care less about the death rate And yet
| half the people who died in Sunderland the
| other week would have been alive If they
had been in London. The Church here in
| London, or in New York or in Melbourne
| or Sydney. would prepare a map of Lon
don. or of New York. or of Melbourne OF
| Sydney, and it would ascertain how many
| agencies there were of the devil In each
street and how many of God. 1t would
| then set to work to diminish the one and
| TO increase the other. Side by side with
| the Ten Commandments in church We
would see statistics of baths. of public
houses, of TeadipR-rOOms, of all the
agencies which make for good and which
| make for evil. And when the agencies fol
| evil were multiplied there would DO held
| days of humiliation. and when they were
abated there would be days OF thanks
| giving"