Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-16

listing order the church has been on the
side of those in authority, rather than
those struggling for larger liberty and
opportunity.
1.-THE influence of the church has been
on the whole conservative, in favor of
the existing order of things. The pas
sive virtues like resignation, patience
and contentment have been preached to
people who ought not to have been re-
signed to their lot, patient under injus-
tice or content with their position in
life. There has been failure on the part
of the church to give voice to the new
aspirations and hopes of men, and so
prejudice against the church, commonly
or the side of authority and vested in
terests and against change, has grown
up.
The Rich and Powerful Favored.
THE development of our Industries
has separated the employer and the en-
ployee to the injury of both; social
distinctions have been made nearly as
mischievous in this country as the rigid
separation in the old world. The desir-
able parishioner has beer too often the
man who could pay for q high priced
pew or make a generous subscription.
1t is true that the churches have been
opened freely for all people disposed to
come and use and enjoy what they have
to give. but people only feel at home
where they can give and do as the rest.
Our pride and foolish rivalries as re-
CARDS our churches and their services
have their proper punishment in the
absence from them of people who can
not afford to be in them on the same
footing as all the rest
cur women are much at fault in
wearing their finery in the House OF
God and using 1t for a place of display
so that the women who are doing the
really serious work in the world can
not be comfortable in them. It is bet
ter for us to acknowledge these things
and to remedy them than to excuse
them.
1.-THE hope of the church is in plan
ming large things and thinking much
about their accomplishment. Men
need to be large-minded and able to
work with those who differ from them.
We Must Train Worthy Disciples,
1.-THE church, her clergy and her peo-
pie must be in full sympathy with this
great democratic movement which is
in the world, having for its aim the
giving of more of Gods children a
chance in life and a fairer division of
its blessings. We mist train up a
generation, not taken out of sympathy
with the great company of Gods chill
dren, by education, by the possession
of wealth, by the desire to crafty their
own tastes, men and women with a
sense Of responsibility and steward
ship, worthy disciples of Him who took
upon Himself the form of a servant,
who came not to be ministered unto.
but to minister and to give His life
a ransom for many.
1.-THE growth of the diocese in popu-
lation makes 1t plain to every n
that means must be provided to assist
missions in building chapels for con-
gregations which are being gathered or
ought to be gathered, and for assisting
some of the weaker churches in build
ing ~rectories and parish buildings.
1.-THE last yea. has not seen the
progress which ] had hoped towards
the subscription of one hundred thou
sand dollars for the increase of the en-
dowment of the e~piscopate fund to re-.
lieve the parishes from assessment for
the support of the bishop. 1t is a little
more than two years since the sub
scription was begun. Fifty-fve thou
sand and twenty-one dollars haye been
subscribed, of which sum $36. 22S.6f
have been paid and deposited, in saw
ing banks at 4 per cent. interest. Thers
are 2o2 subscriptions ranging from 81
to $4,000.
III we could have a revival of re-
ligion, of old-fashioned devotion AMI
piety, leading people to give. religion
in the life and in the home its proper
place, making for simplicity IN. think
ing and living, for self-restraint in
speech, conduct and expenditure. for.
larger sympathy and more. brotherly
kindness. we. would not have TO think
so much about money. We think We
need more money and we need more.
religion. - ~
ut seams invidious to namc special