The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-19


granting that evangelical Christianity
Is involved in the true settlement OF
the issues of our day How is evangel-
ical Christianity going to do her part
in the settlement except on the basis
of her doctrinal convictions? What
force does she possess apart from these
convictions? What is she apart from
them?
IT, then, this is so it becomes a very
simple query whether evangelical
Christianity can be preached to these
issues of our day and not be preached
doctrinally, or, put 1t in the light of
the themes of our discussions. The
practical issues of our day involve
evangelical Christianity in order to
their true and rightful settlement. They
need 1t, In order to be settled, But
Christianity is nothing apart from
the foundation doctrines which under
lie her. Nothing in essence. nothing in
influence and force. How can these
issues then need Christianity to be
preached to 1t, and not need 1t preached
doctrinally?
Can sociology need evangelical
Christianity preached to 1t and not need
1t preached on the basis of Its doctrinal
convictions-not need it preached from
the standpoint of her belief?
Not simply in the fatherhood of God
and the brotherhood of man. but her
belief in God as holy and righteous
and just-as the lord to which the capt.
talist is responsible and the master
under which the Knights Of Labor does
his work. And her belief in sin as
standing behind the slum and condi-
tioning It. AS inhabiting the brothel
and the saloon and enspiriting them.
AS being the thing to be removed, II
effectual, permanent results are to be
secured and her belief in the Holy
Ghost as the one and only ultimate
power to accomplish this removal and
build up the character and life which
are to make the social organism what
God has purposed it shall be-
Why, here Graham Taylor tells us of
a poor woman who comes to him with
cries and tears for her little children
that they be saved from the possibilities
Of life which surrounds the place she
calls the home. He goes down to where
she lives and finds it In a court Shiny
with dirt and sickening with sin--with
a brothel at the corner and a dive under
ground. Practically Cyou ask where
Is there any chance for life with such
breath of hell? Why there isn't any
chance. Men get her and her children
out Of her surroundings. Get them out
where Gods light and air and sunshine
are; where sobriety and decency sur
round them, and you have simply
after all there is life within-soul that
reeds more than bricks and mortar and
lir and light to change IT, There 1t
stands in its relations to God. There it
waits in its personal need of a Saviour
-of a Holy Spirit Let the burden of its
lin be untitled and It's possibilities of
ife and character will remain forever
and unreached Now evan
sellcal Christianity believes this. Why
houldn't she preach ito her workers |
Ito those for which she works? Soclo- |
ogy needs evangelical Christianity. |
low can she need her apart from her |
loctrinal convictions and the preach
ng of them? Given the practical |
roblem of modern up to date sociology,
With all its profound needs, can it fail |
o suggest the need of doctrlnal preach |
ng in its practical adjustment to those |
eeds? So again, can municipal reform |
eed evangelical Christianity preached |
o It, and not need it preached on the
asis of its doctrinal convlctions-not |
eed 1t proclaimed with everlasting \
from the standpoint of it's
elief?
Not simply in the historic God Of the
Iayhower Pilgrims and the historic
act Of a Puritan foundation to our ma
onal life, but her belief in a present
ay Almighty of Eternal Righteousness
nd irresistible Justice and His present
ay creatures who live and ACTIN pub
c office even more than in private life
under eternal responsibility to Him.
do not believe it will need the turn
lg of very many pages Of DR.. Park
urst's sermons or very many chapters
his account Of the fight with Tamma-
Y to find the clear and full admission
lat whatever practical work was nee
isary TO be done In detectives before
lie grand jury, in influence before the
3 BlHltlultt III lltiltiulGllliS away dL pun |
: opinion and in organizing the cam
aign of fall elections, that after an it
as only as lle stood on the basis of
Lese eternal truths and preached them
preached them so as to saturate with !
em friend and foe alike, that he was
,werful to accomplish what he did.
Does municipal reform need evangeli- {
j Christianity apart from her eonvic- {
1ns Of these eternal veritles? Can
Christianity take up civic | t
oblems apart from them given this !
oblem as 1t confronts us to-day? Can {
suggest anything short of doctrinal I
4
So, finally, can the young men of our
mmunities need evangelical Christi
Ilty preached to them and not need it q
cached on the basis lof her doctrinal
need it heralded to {
EN- on the standpoint of her belief l
t merely in the nobility of religion r
d the manliness Of a confession of :
lth before the world, but her belief in o
. need of personal character noble, +
anly and true, for this world and the
rid to come-a personal character not T
mere outside culture, but of real in a
e condition of soul, and this personal h
ii character as the product alone of I
: spirit of God and the vital influence -
Jesus Christ; her belief in the actual n