The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-18

of those days gave them. To-day they
are out of our churches Mayhap they
send their children to Sunday school,
byt by their habits and Indifference to
these powerful formative influences they
are weakening the ideal the CHURCHES
hold before their children They are to
live under the shadow Of shadow.
What Is the next question to be? is a
question worth while serious and anx-
ious thought. Do men out of the
churches want the ideal of life in the
churches to die out of the lives of their
children?
"Workinghlen should be in our
churches because the churches are re-
sponsible, visibly or invisibly, for all
the progress they have made. / know
this will be disputed The churches
have put themselves across the path of
the workingman's progress is the com
! mon notion in some quarters to-day.
| But / maintain my proposition. Con-
trast the condition, the rights and priv
ileges Of workingmen in Christian coun-
tries with those Of workingmen in non
| Christian countries and then trace to
their source the right of workingmen
to organize for protection; the right to
appear before employer on equal terms
before the law; the legislation on their
behalf and the turning Of the world
serious thought to the economies and
industrial problems of the age, and tell
me candidly, what is primarily respon-
sible for this condition and for these
things? Who are responsible for the
moral, social, political and industrial re-
forms of modern times, to go no further
back, but men nourished and trained by
and who have received their ideals of
human conduct from Christian church.
es. I need but mention the Earl of
Shaftesbury, to whom, more than to
any one else, we owe the reforms al1ud-
ed to. The workingmen are too impa-
tent The church is made up of men
like themselves, with prejudices and i'm
perfections Slowly she is coming to see
her duty. Men fear she will do 1t when
she sees it.
Men should go to church for most
of the social progress of the world is
her work. The condition of women,
our mothers and wives, and of our chill
dren, is the work of Christ's spirit in
the churches. A look backward to So
cal conditions even among the most
cultured nations of the world at the
time Christ came and outward over
the nations to-day where the light Of
His truth and the power of His grace
has not come, ought to be sufficient to
convince the most skeptical.
Men should go to church for the
church is responsible for the growing
spirit Of benevolence and sympathy in
the world. l mean that spirit that
manifests itself in hospitals, asylums,
homes for friendless almshouse reform
schools, and the bettered condition of
prisoners I mean that spirit that
shows itself in fraternal organizations,
charitable societies, industrial homes
and associations for carrying good
news to the millions of earth. mean
that spirit that goes to battle fields to
care for the wounded and dying: that
plunges with the sweetest ministries
into plague stricken districts; that
prompts to share and help in every time
of disaster and need. In short, that
spirit that puts yourself in another's
place and does to others as one would
have others do to us. In the name of
this spirit / appeal to men to go to
church and help in the great work Of
filing the earth with the spirit, the
growing good Of the world"