The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
WITH THOSE WHO LABOR ss IN THE LORDS VINEYARD
BY D. V. FRANCIS

Haynes Holmes; "What to De-" the Rev.
 Stephen s. Wise.
 The next series of five services will be
 held in the Church of the Messiah, Mad
 ison avenue and' Thirty-fourth street,
 commencing January 1. The subject and
 speakers will be announced later. The
 closing series of five services, under the
 charge of the Free Synagogue, will com
 mence February 5; the subjects, speak
 CTS and place of meeting will be an
 nounced in due time.
 pr. Holmes in explaining the objects of the meeting said:
 These churches have united for the
 purpose of conducting meetings of this character, in the belief that religion
 must find its ultimate interpretation in terms of social responsibility. They diff fer. no doubt, in many things. but agree in this conception of sociaized religion, and by this are they led to accept the further principle enunciated sy Henry
 D. Lloyd that every question between
 men is a religious question--a question of moral economy before it becomes one of political economy-and every politi- cal, industrial and social action, there fore, Is a function of the church. Espe- cially is this true today.
 Our age is pre-eminently the age of 1 the social question. Everywhere do we see men laboring for the emancipation | 1 of industry, for clean streets and decent homes and tolerable conditions of labor, 1 for the destruction of the liquor traffic | and the social evil, for the abolition of | congestion and the banishment of tuber- I culosis, for the equitable distribution Of wealth and the conquest of poverty. | They are building hospitals and schools,
 model tenements and public playgrounds, 1 they are passing laws for the ever-wid- | ening extension of social control, they are refashioning our entire machinery l of government on the ground plan of | true democracy.
 Nov, all these social questions rightly considered, are religious problems, and all these social activities. rightly con- sidered are religious functions. And 1t lis in order to make this fact clear that the Church of the Divine Paternity, the | Church of the Messiah, and the Free l Synagogue are uniting in this common | task They would open the church to
 every sincere prophet of social justice, whatever his. particular theory; they l would place the church squarely behind every honest movement for the common good, whatever its seeming end; they would identify the church not with the | Interests of any one social class, not with | the destinies of any one social order, but with . the interests of an emancipated
 humanity and the destinies of a perfect l ed society. The church, Sald Iheouore | Parker, should be the leader in every
 moral enterprise-in every work which aims at the welfare of men,. It is upon this platform that these churches would stand and act together"
 Dr. Campbell Morgan will complete in
 September, 1911. seven years of arduous
 work at Westminster chapel, London. l He has accepted an invitation to India and will leave London at the beginning of November. He expects to be absent about five or six months. Dr. Morgan has promised to lecture to the students l in Calcutta. He is not likely to under I take any itinerating work, but will give as much time as possible to personal in l tercourse with young men. Sir Robert Iaidlaw who Is & member of Westmin- l ster chapel has taken keen interest in | this proposal He believes that Dr. Nor gan's visit will be of the greatest ad- vantage to the students of India.
 The church extension committee of the New York Presbytery has given out a statement showing that since it's appoint
 ment ten years ago the committee has raised about $5O000O and has built wholly
 or in part eight new churches and added seven others. All this has been done outside of the s1,500.e00 that was be- queathed by the late John s. Kennedy. Of the Kennedy money $600O00 raised by the committee has been paid over Eand that, with the $600,000 actual Kennedy money, represents q, 100000 that has very
 recently been put into Presbyterian ], pzQpesty advance In Aanhattan and the