Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-03
~ EEPER. richer, truef than ever is
the religious life of the average

~ EEPER, richer, truer than ever Is
the religious life of the average
~ layman throughout the country.
AT any rate, l come back from q
months visit in the east and register
that conviction, after personal touch
and investigation.
1t Is daybreak ON the horizon of mems
service for Christ and the church. Pas
tors are cheered by that fact, and
churches are being revived In conse-
quence. There is something in q genu-
Inc mans real religion that Is simply
irresistible. Until recently the women
who have done SO much for the cause OF
missions have been alone In their eff
forts. Now the men of the church are
beginning to appreciate their place and
Part in the work and worship of the
church, and will no longer permit the
worthy women to have a monopoly or
service. The large missionary meetings
held In the interests of home and for
eign missions are heartening and bid
fair to enlist the rank and file of the
church in very large enterprise
Where hundreds of dollars were given
in the past for the eyangelization of the
world, thousands are now pledged. The
mems conventions in Omaha, indian
apolis, Cincinnati and Philadelphia,
some of them with more than thou
sand delegates, picked business men of
really mean business. There is the lay
mans missionary movement, which is
interdenominational in membership and
International in representation. Nearly
one hundred prominent Christian busi-
ness men, at their own expense, have
left this country to visit foreign mission
fields. Their testimonies on their re-
turn are convincing and their spirit
contagious.
The Brotherhood movement In the
churches is another expression of vital
organized business for Christ. The OBJ
ject of this work Is movement TO pro-
mote. assist and federate all forms OF
organized Christian activity Of men in
churches. The result already is noticed
In the spiritual development and use
fulness of men. When you take into
consideration that men, through COM
mittees and personally, are bringing
business methods into church extern
sion, you have a right to believe the
"world moves"
Philadelphia Is Awakening
This Brotherhood is also bringing the
Christian men of our churches to
fuller recognition of the high claims of
citizenship and closer association In
hearty service In behalf of better stand
ards of commercial integrity, civic
righteousness and personal purity Es-
cause of temperance and securing the
enactment and enforcement of such leg
islation as helps to deliver communities
from governmental corruption and mis-
rule. from the shame and sorrow of
broken homes. from the financial loss
and from the spiritual degradation and
death which result from the liquor
traffic. The keynote of the utterances
of these Christian men is commercial
integrity, civic honesty. home and So
cial protection, personal winning of
men to Christ, personal purity in heart |
life.
and life.
organized evangelstic councils and
committees composed of laymen exclu-
sively. Los Angeles has recently or
ganized one. and 1t Is patterned after
the Laymen's Evangelical council of |
Chicago. The president of the Chicago |
council is H. p. Crowell. president OF
the great American Cereal company |
His life is as simple and as strong as
the Quaker oats he sells.
The council over which he presides
is the natural outcome of several con-
ferences held in the various clubs of |