The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-06

and Congrcgationalism will hc hler l. ed into one. In Canada we are beginning to feel that the church will never set tho world on fro until It has ceased to bo a prism and be- come convex lens in which the diff erent phases of truth will be so sn- cusscd that Christ will appear as an unbrcken whole.
 And thls leads mo in conclusion to say that as the gigantic enterprise of foreign missions has driven the great missionary churches to a united and cooperative campaign of which the laymcn's missionary movement Is an eloquct sign, SO tho new sense of civic danger and responsihility the menace of socia and industrial 1 problems before which mere individ. ualistic effort Is hopeless must soon ! prove prohibitive of sectarian vain glory and competitive waste More and mora united front will he compell- l ed at peril of defeat
 ! Perhaps tho most significant ut- i terance at the general conference was a set of resolutions recognizing the emergent character of these social l problems and the imperative duty of l tho church to consider tho social nm rest and changing order in the inter csts of the kingdom of God.
 They were introduced hy Dr. Will liam M Balch of Lincoln Neb a neighbor and personal friend, by tho way, of Mir Bryan. and bore among t others the signatures of Dr. McFar- land President Huntington of Bos- ton university and doctor now Rish ] op Anderson Dr James M Buckley, whose leadership in this field has been chiefly marking of time, oh- iected to the consideration of the Suh- iect at that time and count vote was required before tho objection was disposed of and Dr Balch could SO. cure the floor in support of his resolu- tions No more vital and prophetic speech was delivered during the month of May than his. He indicated the present social crisis with preda- tory monopoles on one hand and dis inherited multtudes on the other and the deplorabe but manifest fact that the masses are not only indifferent to tho church but also suspicious that the church Is indifferent to them
 ITO satisfy ourselves of the inius- tice of this suspicion is not enough We must satisfy the masses By true words and by deeds that speak louder than words we must convince the common people that the Church of the Carpenters Son is still their friend and. more than that, their indispen- sable friend" He pointed ont that through their highest authorities the Presbyterian, Congregational and Protestant Episcopal churches have already delivered their testimony while Methodism as body has not spoken, and expressed the hope that during the next quadrennium some. thing similar to the department ot church and labor in the Presbyterian or the standing committee on capita and labor In the Protestant EpScopa church might he formed His closing words were memorable warning Remember the Priest and the TeVite who passed by on the other side, possibly they were not SO much heart. less as busy men--men hurrying, per. haps, to a General Conference at Jer, icho where a High Priest was to bt elected and ritual to be revised And our conference will be all bu overwhelmed with elections and tenn poralities, with matters of disciplinar, amendment and ecclesiastical mechan ism In the clamor and confusion Q these things let us not dare forge that humanity lies plundered anC bleeding by the highway God forbic that we should pass by on the othe side"
 Nothing was hailed with deeper sat isfaction by the younger mon of Meth odism than the mass meeting at Lyri