The Press., 1893-06-08

lures 10 deny, In word and deed, this nec- esssry supremacy of evil over good, is it not net with wall or horror over it's de- gen6raey and repetition of the old, thFeadbare assertion that Jesus Christ was Saviour and not a reformer?''
 Not long since clipped the following from the columns of The Wine and Spirit Gazette:
 1 sThese blatherskite preachers are not iceably men of one idea. They are wrapped upsan the sacredness of the Sabbath, the evils of rum drinking or some other hobby, radically distinct from, or but distantly related to the legitimate work of the pull IpiE-the preaching of the gospel. These pulpit shriekeIs make religion @ farce in the eyes of the irreligious, by representing It as something concerning mems lives and habits and pursuits"
 Somehow the Master seemed to have antdea that religion was 'something concerning mems lives and habits and pursuits; but it must be extremely grat- l flying to the constituency of The Wine and Spirit Gazette that comparatively few of His followers agree with their Lord in l thiS view Of christianity. - ~,- The "work of the church?" Whatever afects humanity for veal or for woe is tho work of the christian church. What ever flinders the coming of that day when ] "the eaFth shall be filled with the knowl- edge Of the Lord as the waters cover the seap' is the work of the church to remove. Whatever helps any human being towards goodness, towards purity, towards up- rfghtness, towards happiness, sthat is the work of the church. Nothing is too triv- iai for it's work. Nothing can be too great. There is no avenue through which it must not work. It cannot claim a mo- n0poly of the experimenting to the ex- cinsion of the ballot-box It's mission is not alone to sing Gods praises, nor to raise the Individual soul to an ecstasy of devotion and introspection, but to bring abontssuch 1ife- conditions as shall make 1t possible for universal humanity to live Gods praises in upright, happy lives. Its ideal accomplishment is nothing less than absolute conformity, in inward spirit and In outward life, to the image of the Son. /" Now what is the work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union? Its name m part answers the question, but its rec- ord gives fuller revelation. It is the identical work which Christ left to His church. Seeing the world prisoner in the bonds of sin, it seeks to break the chaini recognizing that there are every where blind eyes, it seeks to carry to them sight; with heart aching for those who have been bruised by sin, it hastens to carry to them healing. It sees that the fbeauty of holy living can alone replace the ashes of the unholy; that the oil ot joy IS the only cure for mourning, and the garment of praise can alone displace the spirit of heaviness. It realizes that the one need of humanity is to know God but 1t likewise recognizes that, before such knowledge can be perfected, there must be taken out of the way whatsoever worketh abomination." It believes in the experience of the ''indwelling Christ, ," but 1t believes equally in the experience ot the out-reaching Christ Christ whose spirit inspires His followers to make straight paths for others feet, Hest that which is lame be turned out of the way. y l Not only to make the individual man good, but to bring about conditions which shall make it possible for the largest mum. ber of men both to become good and to continue so, this is the work of the Wo. mans Christian Temperance Union.
 To this end it's forty three departments were born; to this end it has adopted the .'do-everything policy" to this end wherever 1t sees wrong, whether en- throned in law, as in the liquor traffic or in perverted nature, as social impur ity or in selfishness, as oppression and monopoly; whereverit finds wrong of any kind, it recognizes it's own implacable foe and is in turn thus recognized. Because of it's fearlessness, because of it's breadth Of purpose, because of it's determination to hasten that day when Gods Kingdom shall come and His will be done in eartt as it is in heaven, therefore is it the nat ural ally of the church of Christ.
 It's ally? It is the church itself. Where does there exist dividing line? Why should there be the slightest feeling O difference? Who are the members of tn, w.. CT. U.? In ninety-nine cases out O each hundred they are members and fol the greater part active members of som. one of the many branches of the christian church. Why, then, do we need an in divfdnal existence and separate organi zation? Why do we need the Sunday school? Why missionary societies? Wh, the Christian Endeavcr? But these ar
 branches of the church," you say? So fl
 the Woman's Christian Representation
 1t IS part of the great whole, but par
 which has its own special province as trul. as any of these enumerated, and whicl
 believes it's recognition as an individua
 part to be essential to it's best working It is composed of the chosen few from al
 churches who have been baptized into
 knowledge of the worlds needs and
 longing to consecrate themselves to tn
 meeting of those needs through the sur
 render of self and ease, and life itself,
 needebe.
 When there is an a1atagohism betwee the heart and the hando between the vii
 that moves and the organ which respond
 to it's power, then there can be a genuin
 antagonism between the church and tn
 W. c. II. U. It is true, If one means b
 "the church'' his individual forty-foot lo
 in the great city of God, he may find de
 cided proof of this antagonism. Our ol
 ganization is too great to be contained b
 any one denomination, nor can it subol , dinate the universal to the individual, tn
 greater to the less. But, if man be him
 self broad enough to grasp any true cor , ceptfon of the scope of the kingdom C
 heaven. then must he recognize the We
 mans Christian Temperance Union as l vital part of that kingdom, and rejoice
 that 1t is so gloriously aiding in hastenin
 it's universal dawning. Then must h