The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-05-03
CHISTIAN UNITY OUTLOOK
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Continued from Ninth PageJ
pamphlet, carrying the controversy tc
the village store, the debating club and
the home. And now communities would
regard such controversies as our faith
ers enjoyed and applauded as unsaemly
The bitterness of the old time has
been softened. The outlook Of nearly
all Christian people is enlarged. There
is more appreciation of true religion
wherever found The fences are up on
Sundays but largely removed in the
remaining days of the week. The pee-
pie have larger knowledge Of what is
done for religion in the world than is
brought by their own UNCONVENTIONAL
weekly paper. In setting forward some
of the greatest moral movements of the
time Christian men and women have
worked together, remembering only
that they are servants of Christ. Our
Christian world is outgrowing some Of
the ills and limitations of fierce de-
nominational activity. Our people are
impatient of littleness and narroWness
once accepted without question. The
emphasis is being transferred on the
whole to the greater and more import
ant truths of religion, to those. things
which are held in common. The appeal
to some great and simple truth of the
gospel stirs men more than the appeal
to denominational pride. There is q
better sense of proportion, of perspec-
tive, more power to see things as they
are, to see things whole. There is more
brotherly feeling, more kindness, more
justice in our church life.
What all this means or presages I do
not venture to say. 1T would seam to be
the preparation for more in the way of
unity-that necessary preparation
which some thought might not be re-
CURED AS regards unity with the full
acknowledgment Of the present condi-
tions Think the century just ended has
witnessed great and substantial gains.
The cause is not won but it is not lost.
1t will never cease to be a living ques-
tion until the victory for unity is won.
I have no gift of prophecy and no
right to instruct. I do not think that
the present division and disorder among
us ought to be accepted, ought to be de-
Tended or to continue. AS disciples of
Him whoprayer that we might all be
one, we are bound to do all in our pow
err to remove causes of discord and to
bring in unity / do not think that any
one knows how it is to come. If we do
our part in the way of preparation, God
will do the rest.
THE LARGER CONCEPTION SURE
TO WIN.
Is it not reasonable to suppose that
the influences and movements just nam
ed will continue to work with increas-
ing power? Is it likely that men with
the larger outlook and vision will turn
back, become less generous, less dispos-
ed to emphasize what is really import
ant? Some people will become alarm
ed as the church comes out into the
larger, freer life of the world, where the
currents run more swiftly and the
winds blow more fiercely. In their
alarm they may be disposed to anchor
the ship in which they sail, or even to
make it fast at some medieval anchor
age, as if the currents of life would
cease to flow or the winds to blow Some
of the most timid preachers are those
who preach most strongly of the church
as the ship that cannot sink in the
midst of the storms which arise about
her, because her Master is with her. If
there is any leadership which the world
will not accept, it is that which lacks
courage, which looks back instead of
forward, which seeks refuge in mar
row channel, fearing the open sea.
There will be outbreaks of denomina-
tional zeal but the larger conception of
the church will win There will be ed
lies and back currents, but the great
stream moves on, bearing us all. as we
believe, towards what is larger. Hope
rather than bear becomes us.
FOREIGN MISSIONS MAKE FOR
UNITY
There will open before the churches
new obligations, making larger concep-
lions of duty and larger outlook. For
aign mission work will cloim in the new
century larger place than ever. A CEN
fury has been spent in preparation for
the conquest of the heather world, in
earning how to do the work, in opening
the doors which shut out the church
and the gospel. A revival Of interest