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treme the return. So it is on either
side of the line of the plummet."


side of the line of the plummet."
IF we are to have real churches, we
need a great deal of first-class pasto-
raj work, remarks the Watchman
(Bapt) of Boston. An individual MEM
beI of church is united to to the congre-
cation by hooks of steel when a place is
found for him in its activities in which
he can exert his powers with efficiency.
The popular conception of pastoral
work, which makes it consist in atten-
tiOn to the sick and to inquirers and the
distribution of social courteSies needs
to be vastly enlarged. True pastoral
work is based on that insight of char
acter which enables the pastor to fit
men and women into the life of the
church by assisting them to approprl-
ate service in it. The crying evil of our
modern church is the unutilized tai
entS of it's members. The young peo-
pies movement is simply an attempt TO
utilize the talents and services of one
class in our congregations. When
church is a hive of wisely directed
spiritual industry, it is bound together
in all directions by the strongest ties.
The things to which we have referred
are in the minds of the people. The man
with a gift of striking and dramatic
speech who simply gathers crowd and
does not organize it into the life and
work of the church, has had his day
Some of the newspapers are moved
by the endeavor to obtain money for
foreign missions to assert that the
churches do not believe that the
heather are doomed to perdition, and to
add that the study of comparative re-
ligions and the bringing together OF va
rious faiths. as at the Chicago Fair,
have taught men that there is a great
deal that is good in all the religions,
and that people no longer allow the eX-
elusive claims of the Bible and Chris
tianity There is some, and, we regret
to say, too much truth in these declara-
tions." observes the New York Chris
tan Intelligencer (Ref). "It is due to
the neglect of the distinguishing truths
of the Scriptures by the pulpit yield
ing to the demands of a part OF the
pews, especially to neglect or the holi-
ness of the nature of God ana the flgnl-
eousness of His government, and to the
substitution of a love which hardly
rises above indulgence and sentiment
alism- a love without holiness or
Righteousness. There is lack of back
bone and courage in some pulpitS which
is exceedingly injurious. AS 10 the
heather it is enough to say that they
are manifestly unfit for heaven. II
heaven is a happy place it is holy
impossible. The heather are not holy,
and are condemned by their own moral
codes. as every man is. What is TO
make them holy and fit for heaven!
rs it not quite clear" says the New
York Outlook, that TO follow Chllst Is
something more than to subscribe
creed. share public worship, or support
by money or by service the institutions
of religion? that it is more than what we
sometimes call religion? Is it not
equally clear that it is something more
than to go about doing good. as occasion
offers, here and there, incidentally, IN
busy life? 1t is deliberately to conse-
crate ones self to the cause of right
ecusness and truth in the world, cost
what that conservation may; to engage
in a life campaign against every form OF
iniquity-political social, industrial, IN
dividual-w that campaign
may lead and whatsoever it may IN
volve It is to determine to seek noble
ends only by noble means; to make ma
terial civilization take it's second and
rightful place; to escheW sensational
methods even for moral results; and,
above all, never to compromise with evil
in order to contend against evil, never
to fight fire with fire, never to take the
standard of ones age as ones own,
even for the purpose of improving 1t.
It is to challenge openly. publicly, fear
lcssly every form of corruption,
whether it be intrenched in high places,
honOred in church and buttresSed by
state. or whether it be embodied in pop
ular prejudices and expressed in popu-
lar clamor 1t means for the pulpit, to
rebuke Pharisaism in its own pews; the
press, to rebuke prejudiceS in its own
party It means for the politician, to
prefer political defeat to dishonorable
trucking: for the lawyer, to be min
lister of Justice not a mere Garner of
fees: for the merchant, to dare bank
ruptcy but never to compromise with his
conscience; for the manufacturer and
mechanic, to hate adulteration and me-
chanical false pretense."
The Christian Register Unit) of Bos-
ton says: Our Catholic contemporary,
the Sacred Heart Review, seeks to apol
ogize as well as it can for the PopeS
Injunction to Catholics of this country
to refrain from participating in relig
ious congresses where other denomina-
tions are represented. The Review says:
Leo XIII, who has undoubtedly given
the matter long and careful considera
ton, has evidently reached the conclu-
sion that the advantages consequent
from Catholic representation at such
religious congresses do not compensate
for the disadvantages attendant upon
participation in them The Pope does
not seem, however, to have considered
the question whether the Catholics have
anything to give. Certainly, church
OF its historic Importance and imposing
organization should be able to contrib
ute something. 1t looks as though the
Pcpe We're afraid to bring Roman Cath
olicism into fair comparison with other
religions. But in this respect he is not
worse than the Archbishop of Canter-
bury"
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