The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-30
OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS.
Their Relation to tho Church shouia
Receive Proper Recognition

THAR Relation to tho Church Shou"
receive Proper Recognition.
co,asnsed from the Union Signal for the
EnterpriseJ q
A minister addressing CongreRa'ionai
association at owasso, Mich, paid triou'e
10 the Y, M. c. A. and W, c. T, U. claim
ing that they were doing work which 'ne
churches cannot do, institutional work
alongside the churches. He said; "The
W. c. T. U. claims that 1t Is essentially an
inside organization, almost every member
Of Il being a member Of the orthodox
church, a supporter Of all Its objects anu
psua,lv the white ribboners are "burning
the candle at both ends" in the energy ana
effectiveness of their church werk' ~
mistake to permit themselves 10 10
called "outside;" !" rather should they c'a'n
to be part and parcel Of the church
The W. G. 7. us proper atlitude iS'
from within, to demand the churches rec
oOnition and enforcement Of Its princi'
ples, as those exacted by commandment
and gospel, until the church becomes the
one great temperance society and makes
all other temperance societies needless,
He argues that churches are not primarily
the places for compelling assent to re-
formatory truths, because In 1t besides
"clear-eyed saints who look with keen
discernment upon the good and the eVil'
are also many who are "literally the
babes In Christ, with only feeble sense OF
sight and hearing"
"Try writing the forty.one departments
Of the W. C. T. U. on the tablets oil
church. If you get to antinarcotics WIN
, out sensation and without dissolution
= Won will do well. Fiom one OF the W. "
:, T. U. headquarters circular letter was
4 sent out to ministers, asking co'operatlol
!, with the work, which happened In thi'
= case to have in II nothing Objectionable II
the way OF politics. The replies came o
two entirely different strains. In part tn
:, letters were kind and helpful in part the
d were full Of bitterness. The good womeI
n fled them respectively in cubby-hole
n. named for convenience "Eba" and ger
zim." 1t is reported that so far was on
of the pastors from giving a reasonaol
ID support TO the work, that he wrote an a
n. ticle cri,iczing the union, which WI
ct afterward circulated by the saloon'keepe
as a campaign document
"There are two things which the churc
be cannot altogether overlook aud i've VI
ry is the welfare of young men and wome
the other the practical publication OF
cieiy and state. One is the work oil u
be Y. NJ. @. A. and the other Of the W. Z.
re u. If we are not doing and cannot do th
work in our churches we must do II
some other way. five have neglected a
is lion until the Lord has raised up agenci
ist that are grandlY operating, 1t is not II
us to play Achilles and sulk In our ten
II these agencies are going wrong 1t
an our fault. We may enter them aud wi
he our wishes set them right, We have q
privilege of voice in all their delibeT
tions and a vote in all their elections. v
ed have the privilege Of cooperating wi
these splendid regiments of the Lord
Hosts aud thus achieving everlasting vi
III tories.
"What, then, should be the relation
the churches to these agencles' | Rnt
MS of no other answer than this, that
churches should give them proper rec'
milton as their natural and potent aux
iaries in the work Of bringing this wol
SCI SCI TO the feet of our redeemer."
rin M, Ii, RI