The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-07
THE COMING CHURCH.
-, a FAY MILLS TELLS WHAT II
nv OUGHT TO BE.

Cav. the Basis of Fellowship enoa'a an
e''. voo,..iasticai OF Dootrinsi Test-The
liberation should Be Thoroughly |
--.,,o-The Church's Mission.
u,o Rev Benjamin Fay Mills spoke
,Iusic hall at Boston the other even
~ ~ "The Coming Church-What 1t
ipe ~ 70 Be-" In part he said;
ou .sIn the first place, the basis OF Eel
shin should have no ecclesiastical
sooyr;nal test nor any barriers arising
e.om formal shiIia"ons. Jews ana
nonti,es barhariahs snd ocytnians'
s senS end Free agnost:ss. sTirituaiists'
pon .or;nIists end people holding every
ni laSIIl theory under the sun should
in'e ohro 70 he conscientious members OF
riybteous church.
..as11olIowship will be based upon the
,nitv of the race. The religions OF inc
lost have all grown out OF humanity
pa as one of our poets says, they may
nv, ont of us still There should be
ei0. .ost as TO attainment Of character,
hut only of purpose.
.In the second place, the form OF or
oorization should vary in differing COM
Quantities and circumstances Inc ad-
ripistration should be thoroughly GEM
nanotic The initiative and referendum
Ond imnerative mandate should be put
IN practical operation, both because OF
.ho;r reasonableness and on account OF
tbe nossible training for their use in the
nolitics of the near future.
"In the third place, the mission OF
.ho chnrch should include the utterance
% q message and the most practical
service. The message is simply the
word If faith that this is good race III
a good world in good universe. the
message of hope that all things must
change for the better. not necessarily In
essential character, but in outward con-
ditions and attainments; the message OF
love as the key to all problems, philo-
sonhioal. scientific, theological and
practical, and the revelation OF the mys-
ferries Of earth and heaven.
al do not mean that the church
should ever become identical with the
state. The time was when the church
was the state and the school and con.
trolled all educational and eleemosynary
institutions. As has been we'll said, a
mart of the work Of the church is done
when the state assumes such service,
but it is tho business of the church tc
have a general concern for the we'll be-
ing of humanity and to make the state
too holy to tolerate any wrong.
$50 too, in her relationship to indus
try and commerce, 1t is her business
hopefully, patiently, wisely, to discover
the laws of human intercourse in mate
rial things Believing in the progress
and the universal author of the law o
love, she should see which way thu
world is going, know where it is nov
and what the next step to be takei
should be. She must insist upon he
economies being founded on justice.
"In education she will set herself t
Danish ignorance. She will be the in
spiration for truer character building Il
the training of the young. She will SO
that there is better care for the poor
insist upon the enlightened treatmen
of the insane and all other unfortunates
regenerate the criminal and civilize tn
prison. She will promote the trues
brotherly relationship of the employe
and the employed. boston Herald.