The Progress., 1892-12-24

-. 10 his own
-. Ur. Parkhurst can go
Ills pulpit. We all pity the
4allen sinner, and we are trying to pro-
tect this poor creature from police black
mail by making the department enforce
the law.
If the law is wrong, repeal 1T and pro-
tect the gamblers and prostitutes. If
these people are worthy of special pro-
lection, let the state proceed to charter
them; otherwise let the police do less
talking and more work.
This movement is an age revolution
that will result in the larger incarnation
of righteousness in public life. Let law
breakers and corrupt officials see to it.
1t cannot be staid by threats or lies. 1t
is genuine revival of the public con-
science There are not knaves enough
in office, fools enough in the pulpit or
devils enough in hell to defeat it. Its
pioneers may blunder, but the work goes
on. 1t is the movement of the God of
righteousness incarnating himself in So
ciety. He that falleth on this stone
it shall fall it shall grind him to pow
der"
And Jesus answered and said, Master, we
saw one casting out devils in thy name, a1d
we forbade him, because he followeth not with
us. But Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not,
for he that is not against you is for you.-Luke
IL. 40, SO.
The recently inaugurated heresy trials
that center in New York and in the west
have raised in this century in America,
with an emphasis never raised before,
the questions of ecclesiasticism, of ira
dition, of authority in ecclesiasticism,
and of the basis of Protestant Christian
ity. 1t is a curious spectacle, curious
condition in which to find the church of
Christ today.
Il is worth the while of any man who
loves his fellow man and who is inter
ested in the subject of Christianity to go
into one of those churches and watch
the proceedings for awhile and review
from that standpoint the city with its
people-the great, dark, vulgar crowd
\ of men and women that sweeps before
4 feet, with more restless hearts, SHINING
falling, stumbling, trying to rise, fail
ing, dying. being lost. Then from thai
point look back through history at the
story of the church of Christ, look out
upon the future and the problems tha
confront it, and seriously ask yourselve!
the question, Is this the work of tht
church of Jesus?
What is the matter with those men
A great court assembled, the whole
working force of church-for what
To try two men. What is the matte
with the men? Are they inidel, bat
men? Does any man believe that the,
are not Christian men, have never beel
regenerated? No, l have never heart
any man say that they are not true fol
lowers of Jesus Christ. with the bes
light they have. No man has ques
toned the fact of their regeneration, o
personal faith in Christ. or that they ar
true Christian men. What is the mat
ter with them, then? The difficult
seems to be that they differ in intel
lectual opinions with certain other me
inside of their ecclesiastical body.
NOT AN INTELLECTUAL BATTLE.
Does Christianity depend on those il
tellectual difficulties? No. Hawthorn
said, looking at an ecclesiastical hbrar,
that if the simplest man can know tf
\ Lord and be saved without the use {
Many of these books they struck him
Aublime impertinence-that is to sa.
essential point of Christianity is nj
be found in these intellectual pro
n You are not touching the fund
mAQuestions of Christianity, becau'
higA saved in Christ without yo'
bort lower criticism, or al
tch0Qs sticism, old school or ne
are saved BY . sinPl