The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

OF GQ6 RT6dG ITS0DOOUGIS VI uOu0Iu COLu'
merce seems rather to increase in pro-
portion to the discomfort and opposition
among the masses. With threatened
labor uprisings in many nations, the
money kings Of the world have just pre-
cipitated one of the greatest panics Of
the nineteenth century. They have made
billions of dollars. But few more such
victories and they are lost Are they
oil fools or are they born idiots When
confronted with the problem of selfish
gain on the one hand, justice on the
other?
THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE.
Third-We observe the fact in the
habits and methods of the modern eo-
clesiastical machine.
In the past the church has been the
bulwark of society against every reVO-
luton.
Napoleon used it to maintain his
crown after he had walked over it to
mount his throne. Will the church now
be able to hold in check another revolu-
tion2
It is exceedingly doubtful. It is q
question if the church have not already
lost her divine opportunity. The revolu-
tion at the Vatican and the arousing Of
hundreds of Protestant ministers within
the past few years may have come too
late. We hope not. But we fear it.
Certain it is the church as yet sits calm
ly by in stupid Indifference, or, worse
still, is active in hostility to the cause
of the common people who "heard him
gladly"
The separation Of the masses from the
church is an appalling fact of this age.
The contemptuous neglect Of the masses
by the church and the disgusting toady-
ing to the rich is a tillsadder fact. Mr..
Moody said some time ago, "The gulf
between the church and the masses is
growing deeper, wider and darker every
hour"
DIR. Strong declares that the census
shows that over 100000 of our people
in America never enter church of any
sort-Protestan or Catholic. Of the
other half of our population which nom
inally attends, not half of them are in
vital touch with organic church life. In
Vermont, for instance, where 40 towns
were canvassed, only "A per cent of the
population called themselves churchgo-
ers. In Is counties in Maine 1873, 445
families were canvassed, and 67,842 Of
these families reported themselves as at
tending no church. The same proper
ton holds in other states Of the Union
where careful canvass has been made.
The working people do not attend
churches as q rude. Not only do they
refuse to attend, but thousands of them
hate the sight of church building.
Four Brooklyn pastors, whose churches
aggregate 2,2OO active members, repre-
senting four different denominations, in
comparing notes recently found that
there was but one workingman among
the aggregate Of their four establish
ments-one lone carpenter among 1900
professed followers Of the Carpenters
Sonl On the other hand, DR.. GLADDEN.
found in q canvass he made of one Of
our cities that of the leading business
men n per cent were regular attendants
upon church
Canon Farrar, speaking for England.
says, mot per cent of the working
classes, who represent the great mass OF
the people, are regular or even occasional
communicates"
The Earl of Shaftesbury declared be-
fore his death that not Q per cent of the
English workingmen attend any place OF
worship-papal or Protestant
woRSHIPIN9 GOD AND MAMMoN.
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