The morning journal-courier., 1908-04-30

t'i puh U hll lHt IDllNllltIlS Hlell dlt " . come into their universal brotherhood . and sonhood.
 T specify two particulars In which | God would fain work out here in the microcosm of grace, would reveal in the miniature the benign purposes of His universal economy,
 In the first place, men arc grow Ing rich here, So rich the world round God means men shall become, The knack of making the material re- source of air and water and soil and rock yield in an hitherto nconccivablc fullness to the wants of men Is the glory, almost the despair, of this com tlnent With like store God has equipped his world the continents over, and such n knack of getting and spending, shall one day be an | benlzon, Here Is a plenty | to minister to all the human desires ! which foolish men have sometimes | called gross, Here men are crowding | into cities that thus they may furnish | the spiritual currents direct and un- broken circuit. So must men more and more crowd the world over, Our luxurious cities are a world phenome- non. The very wealth of their con structon Is an expanding factor in the kingdom of God. Some think it wise to say God made the country; man made the city" am bold to remark that discover scant wisdom in the saying, and only q blundering insight. God made also the city, made lt last as the crowning demon stration of Ills wisdom We commit distressing folly when we accept the increasing urban pressure of our civ illzation as in Itself a bane, and su- pinely endure It's abortlons as necessary evil.
 Our incomparable material civiliza- ton, Its oyernowing plenty, Its teem- Ing cities, its throbbing energies, its knack of making the most of the least, it's superhuman alchemy by which peasant is transmitted into prince, its celebrities of movement, its stressful zest of living its fair tragedies of achievement, its strains of industry making mpossibilities actual and real--al these, the latest and richest evidences of Gods beneflcence, we-shame on us--mistake for evils, and discover our utmost spiritual zeal in the impotent wall over an alleged materialistic age.
 We drudgingly travel the long road of grace, and then, by our spiritual bunglng and blindness, convert that one-tlme far off divine event toward which our whole creation has moved into a reekirg, fumlng hell. Tut, tut! tut! what weakling world-saviours we do be when we go down in such ignoble impotence before the final test of the spiritual efficiency of our scheme Can we redeem our American cities? can we transfuse the forces of this splendid North American civilization with the spiritual efficiency of our scheme, Can God? That is the end for which this divine laboratory was constructed. God and all the world wait to witness the demonstration. We toy with child's trlnkets till we show ourselves equal to that supreme task.
 In the second place, I nominate as the orld-redeeming mission of this continent, the bringing or men into the essential democracy of the common wealth of God. The commonwealth of God gains its vitality from no formal political construction. The democracy of the spirit will maintain the human brotherhood, whatever may be the ac- cidents of political formularies Such democracy all the sanctions of his tory and of history God have commis- stoned this continent to produce and maintain. It is holy mission. Let our political predilections be what they may, this enterprise Is the essence of the gospel of the Man of Galilee. IL at once transcends and subsumes all our state and church.
 The church of a class can never be the church Of Jesus Christ, And church
 which permits itself to be considered the society of class has committed q terrible bunder An organized system of patronage Is poor travesty upon q church The common people who heard Jesus gladly were not pleased to have him teach down, away down, put them complacently on the back and tell them to be good or to be warmed and fed. He never ndulged in such a mock cry He knew and cared too much for
 that The Kingdom of God is not q system of patronage, however well or
 ganlzed. A public charity function Is not the final manifestation of human brotherhood.
 Our so-called charities and philan-
 thropies do us little credit whenever
 they serve only the more effectually to
 widen the chasm between the classes. We may congratulate ourselves upon
 feeding the hungry with lavish boun- ties, but the hungry turn away filed to despse us and our system of pat
 ronage the more. The common people make them out never so common-do
 not wish ramshackle, sooty mission houses buided for their special benefit on the back streets They are yearning 1 for brotherhood and they will not find
 the Christ until that brotherhood is re-
 vealed,
 Oh now, they do not wish to be l fawned upon and fondled; they are not
 clamoring for seat in the million
 aires pew. They wish to be included as a matter of course, to be taken for
 what they are and for what they have | 1t in them to become in a Christian
 community, They resent beihS made
 the sensation of the On's and Ah'G and crocodile tears Of our missionary audi
 ences, only to find themselves summed i and acclaimed against by the squeam i ish auditors when it comes to personal
 contacts, They find none of the sin
 cerity of the Man of Galilee in such a program
 ! CORNELL LOSES FIRST GAME.