Putnam patriot., 1910-11-18

tsHt lar oe It tfNiN Ills tN nut mat ne was lherc for any ether purpose than the prosecution of hiS holy calllng.M
 Suppose such reading came ta your eye in your newspaper tomorrow morning; il would amaze you beyond l words. My question is-~oasht this to b, ses Ought nat the preacher and the deacon to be as common figures la the police court as the pslrelman oi matfon ct reporter 0axht he not, for example, to be in the saloons talking politics with men the night before eleelions The men who are in the sa. looms arc the men who especially need the sort oi talking minister should be able, 10 give. In ancient days the church of the PhariSees went oil by it. self and chanted sweet psalms of trust To God who had not made them as other men were; bal In ancient days the church of Jesus Christ moved through the streets where men threng- ed; discussed with them the experience of the merchant, the money lcuder, the man who had io pay taxes, practical up.to-date questions everyone; was not afraid of contact with the uuhoiy, ape piled no hard test of fitness for mem- betship. rebuked sinners to their faces, and preached the gospel to the poor. Something has gone wrong since that day, there Is no doubt about It. At some point or other the church got ofi the track. Oh, she's not altogether oil the track. she has scme truth of Jesus, great deal of the truth ot Jesus, in fact. She has more of hts truth than any other single institution in all this world, and lhat k the reason she has been able tu persist in spite of her niis- takes But she needs Eo have mure uf the Chfist.spirit. She needs 10 have more of that matIial passion fof indt. Nidual and social righteousness which made JesaS,s career Eofevef burn in the sight of the world like a hot white flame.
 Thus We come to our thifd and final pfonosltlon This K to the effect that the reslsfstng ef the church will come not through feeisais but through se. clal service. When Il again begins to march through ihe devils territory IN m invading army, it will commend itself as worth while, it will ind te. cfuits enlisting unacr it's banners. The old religious appeal herr in New Eng land was "tome out of the world and Into the church, The new appeal Is s.Go into the world and there serve your church. The new conception of Christianity offers not spiritual Gtbfai. ter but bloody wilderness Campaign. fighting esefy day and tfeNcherics 10 guard against every night, struggle, retreat, pain perhaps, even death, but all the while the joy of being in . great magnificent battle for brother hood. And the natures who did not respond when the church asked them to save themselves out Of the world are leaping into the ranks when the church 0sks them to 70 out Into the world and save it. Church bells, they say, are often made of old cannon. The metal of the cannon when melted over seems to possess peculiar fitness for use in bells. Perhaps the shock of many explosions has reaffnnged the molecules so that they gtye sweetness true of human life. Bui the ilIusIra. church belts should not only be made ont of cannon; they should bc cannon. Then once the church has become n real army of invasion, every stroke of it's bell in the stecple should ring like cannon.shot through the air, giving inspiration to the army of the Lord, scattering dismay amoug it's foes. lt should nerve his arm with energy.
 The church should invade politics for one thing and serve the world there. IL i.hould apply Jesus sprinciples to modern conditions of government with the same definite emphasis that Jesus used when he applied the whips of backs. Our preaching must b0 mace fx.u ua xi ka [ sskat f<<A s9a U phrased that II we mean senator But- kelley our audience should know that we mean Senator Bulkcloy. Sefmonss Sermons. How many sermons afs poured forth upon the atmosphere hero In Connecticut every Sunday. And so far as definite results 70, how many of them are but the batter of April rain drops upon steel afmor plate! We must give an edge to our preaching, brethren. That is what Amos and Hosea and Elijah did and men did not go 10 sleep when they spoke.
 aOh, bat the church will get into trouble fl Il meddles with politics. prcjudices and the church will come to grief.u 10 urges the limid soul. Yes, the church will come to grief if she ties herself up with any single party. Hut the saloon goes Into politics and does not come to grief; the great business Inter csts of our country go into politics and do mol come to grief. Why potY Simply because they care nothing abont parties so long ss they get what they are after. Let 1t be 50 with the church. We Christian people ought to go to the cspi ol at Hartford Of at Washington with our demands as clearly formulated as arc the demands of the liquor business or the steel trust; and when oncc the church really busles herself thus with practical politics she will count for more.
 For another thing, the church should invade industry and serve the world there. Too much the motto of the in- dustrisl world k in three words " Bust ness is business IL ought tO be written In four words, . sBusiness is Christian businees.v One Of the re- markable books 0f the year is John Gfaham Brooks biography of the late President Baldwin of the Long Island Railroad. Mir. Baldwin was . Chris tian business man whose devotion to principle, even in the dubious mnzes pf faiIroadinR. earned for him the title ssthe Sir Gasahnd of the market. piaces' and t~cause he kept his moral ideaIixn1 uuimpaired hss biography was put forth as . tract for his times. And such . tract is ssfeiy needed, God knows. On one occasion It WAS point eli out to him that his scfupl<s would allow com petinx railroad t0 get the busines<: he replied in words that ought to be Inscribed over the office door of every factory and store and co.'s pofaGion in the land, 1.-The business which can't do straight, am willing