The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-11-10
A STIRRING ADDRESS.

a STIRRING ADDRESS.
Rev. DR.. Charles C. Albertson, the
speaker of the evening. was introduced
most happily by Rev. DR.. Giffln.
Dr. Albertson has the face of poet
| and the pulpit presence of an inspired
| prophet His address wonderfully
stirred his listeners, who felt that his
prophecy of the church OF the future
| might be a reality in which each one
could have a part.
He spoke of the multi-organizations,
perhaps the over organizations, which
characterzes the church of today, and
compared the present with the past,
rejecting on the fact that nothing is
as it was and nothing is going to be
as it is except in the realm of the
unseen. Schools and colleges of today
are not those of our fathers. Fifty
years ago hardly a reputable college
or higher school would admit a wo-
man. Things have changed since a
| college president advised the women
who knocked at the doors to go and
wash dishes, and if that failed, to go
and get married.
We have come to the place where
| power to learn implies the right Ia
learn. Fifty years ago the life of a
| college Centered in class rooms. Now
| 1t is in the laboratory or the library.
| Education really consists of independ-
ent research and individual investi-
cation.
People are asking all sorts of ques-
| tiOns now, and naturally the question
| arise, What shall be the church of the
future?" First of all, there is going tC
| be a church tomorrow Those are mis-
| cradle prophets who say the church is
| to fall or is outgrown. The religious
| instinct is infallible as all natural in
stincts are. The church will live after
| it's detractOrs have reached oblivion
| The churches might be burned, the
| Bibles might be destroyed, the preach
ers banished, to dungeons or execution
but there would still be church.
A LARGE CHURCH.
| The church of tomorrow will be a
| large church. The man who now says
he belongs to the big church will not al.
ways be able to say that. There will
come day when he must answer that
he belongs to the little church when
he means no church at all.
1t will be a militant church. 1t is t.
WELD weapons and wage warfare in ar
| offensive attitude against iniquity
Such is the timidity or cowardice Of thS
average Christian that to quote the
newspaper parody:
| In the worlds broad field Of battle;
| In the bivouaC of life;
The average processing Christian
Is represented by his wife.
In the church of Christ of the future
no one will either dare to openly defend
or secretly protect the saloon. But the
man who thinks the saloon the only
great evil today which should be Tough
makes a serious mistake.
FrOebel said nothing is known unit
1t is known in its relations. And the
| man who wages d one-sided wal
against the saloon is fighting an up Il
date devil with antiquated weapons.
The speaker then made a statement
that made some people open their eye!
when he said: "UnhyGleric cooking
unscientific housekeeping, tenement lif,
and the sweatshops are evils which
reed to be fought equally with the sa
loon. The liquor traffic will never
be abolished by sermons, resolutions o.
prayers, ballots or bullets. 1t will neve
be crushed until the church of tomor
row faces with unveiled vision thes,
problems and sets out to tear dowI
sweatshops, clean up the tenemen
| holtSa and train Intanpht ohildrap how