The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-01

monks out of England: France has
suppressed the clerical orders; and now
even priest ridden Spain has risen up
against them.
Where have they gone? They have
come over here, to Canada and into
the United States Right down here
In Washington, If l am not mistaken,
they are digging new catacombs and
laying the foundations of magnificent
buildings, and intend to WELD the flu
ture in the land Of liberty.
DR.. Holyoke said that a deeper rea-
son for the failure of the monastic
system was that 1t failed to obey the
command of Christ to go out into the
/ World. This command Is the basis of
the new monarchism, the new order Of
I Christian servants He mentioned the
! Keswick movement as an example of
! the desire of Christians to retire into
quiet life to fulfill a high ideal.
| He said that the new order must be
sworn to maintain the service and
works of the church up to the stand
| ard set by Christ; 1t must go out into
| the business and social world and real
| ize the ideals taught in the Sunday
school; it must have a new ideal of
patriotism-the old monarchism forgot
the nation in the papacy.
\ DR.. Holyoke illustrated the type OF
the new monarchism by a reference
to President Roosevelt whom he char
acterized as the "only absolutely in
dependent president we have ever had. .
He called him a man fit to stand be-
side Loyola and Luther and one who
could become the leader of new gen
Grafton of men who wish to serve theil
country next to God.
In introducing Dr. Lorimer, Presi.
dent Moore said he could not call hin
DR.. Lorimer from Boston and he did
not want to call him DR.. Lorimer fol
| New York, so he presented him as
| George C. Lorimer of Christendom.
Without an Introductory word, DR..
Lorimer began upon his subject, Man
hood in Christianity" He said:
1.-THE theoretical tendency of modern
science is to dethrone man from his
high position in the universe. AS
| tronomy has enlarged our conception
as to the size of the universe; it has
declared that our earth is only a sec
ondary body and that man is mere
creature of very small Importance.
| Geology has extended our knowledge
of time so that we now talk Of billions
of years and millions of ages. Biology
speaks of man as a product of lower
forms of life without a previous life
to account for it. whittier current
| theories will yet lead no one can an
ticipate, but it is becoming in us
/ Christians to withdraw our thoughts
1 from this belittling of man and to con-
slider manhood in Christianity. AS we
pass from the shadows of science we
4 come into the light of Christ.
viii you permit me first to speak of
the place of manhood in Christianity?
Some Of us are apt to think of Chris
tianity as a great structure. We art
| impressed with the magnitude of St
Peters and the other cathedrals of the
old world. with their histrionic trap
pings. But not in all the New Tesla
ment is it commanded to rear a meet
ing house. VIII you remember that
our Lord turned his back upon the
splendors of the temple at Jerusalem
He looked upon the church as an end
not as a great structure. and the end
Of the church is fulfilled when it pro-
duces manhood. Man is greater than
the church.
THE reason that the church lags in
these days is that even the Protestants
have lost sight of this fact. We busy
ourselves in questioning whether we
shall wear robes or how the Lords
supper shall be administered and other
secondary matters, when our sole busi-
ness is to make men, If we have tC
do it in barn"
DIR. Lorimer told about seeing in a
plCIuIe Bdliefy Ut NOlllnBndI1ly ENG
, land, a painting of a shepherd tend.
ing his sheep. Soon after in Londor
he read in a paper of a baker whC
after standing 16 hours in the oppres
, sive heat of the bakeshop dropped
, dead He connected the two and though
, Are men of less account than sheep?'
. He emphatically affirmed that In hi
opinion the average Christian believes
that man is no better than sheep
mo man." he said has a right t.
enter into a business contract withou
taking thought as to whether its eff
feet will be beneficial to those under
him and to those over him"
The second division Of the address;
was on the character of manhood il
Christianity. He upheld Christ as the
pattern of the perfect man who ough
to be our inspiration. Fraternity anC
thivalry-the spirit of sacrifice-rur
all through Christ's life. After thu
singing of praise God From Whom
All Blessings Flow" Dr. Lorimer pro
nounced the benediction and the con
Vention adjourned.