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'H 'iSJ NSNCiOP 9uSu liICH' oPpOHltlue such temporary leadership as may be advisable.
 THE WORSHIP
 Here Is left wide range In the scrip lures. Some essentials, however, must be regarded; all this can be de- termlned by a careful referance to the New Testament. It will be easy to arrange the music, ministry, worship hour. The ordinance of the Lords house. When love and unity obtain all the little preferences, many of which are no more than habit with us, can be adjusted without Injury to any ones conscience. Simplicity and ear nestness with a a.sincere desire 10 follow our Savior will make a church blessed of God and having flavor with all the people," must not close this article without pleading with all to not misun derstand my purpose. Ths division Is offensive to me for many reasons, not least among which Is that one can scarcely avoid being charged with seeking to "get everybody to join his church." meaning by that that l repre- sent a "denominaton" and that l am looking only to the overthrow of others for the sake of building up my pet church." What have said in this article cannot lead anyone to such conclusion. but this same sectarian spirit often does, hence the warning
 Mir. Editor: hereunto append a dispatch recently appearing In the Los Angeles Times, It meets my approv- al. Mir. Shaw is big man and a great Methodist. Wonder how many Methodists agree with Brother Shaw on tnlS SuOJeCtF
 Chicago, Feb. 19.-Lesl;e NJ. Shaw, secretary of the treasury, in an address before the International Social Reform Union at the auditorium tonight, as- serted that he believed that there was one tiust that nobody should be oppos- ed to. This he designated as "the re- ligious trust"
 Secretary Shaw came out hatly in fav- or of the union of all the denominations, to put it in his own words, "whether Catholic or Protestant, whether Armen- ian or Calvinist."
 He thought, he said, that all the diff ferent factions of the religious world should be united on the one platform sof the salvation of the peoples of the earth.
 A great religious democracy, where the rich and the poor, those who have had the benefit of education aud those who have not, shall be united, was proposed by the speaker for an ideal condition in the ranks of the wranglers on the pur- poses and the ends of Providence.
 "I have never been an officer, counsel for nor stockholder in an industrial or trust," said Shaw, "but have sometimes thought 1 would like to help organize great religious trust, in- to which every needy soul should be in- vited and through which the gospel should be preached to everyone who would hear it, at the least possible ex- pense. :
 "While I am nominally a Methodist, and believe in the teachings of my church and am proud of her record, am suffic- ently catholic in spirit and hope to well come with delight a movement that would unite all those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior of the world and who recognize Him as the only hope of the race, whether Catholic )r Protestant, whether Armenian or Calvinist, in putting the word. of God nto every home and in making the gos- pei of easy access to every person"
 
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