Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-13
NEW TYPE OF GOSPEL NEEDED
All Denominations to Aid in Forming
Christianized Social Service.
VIEWS OF PROMINENT WORKERS
~ Charch and society Are AEain
United it Must BE by spiritual
and Physical Regen-

and RhTHlC1A heGtm-
eratioa.
SILVER BAY. LAKE GEORGE, y. Y
/ Aus 12-Beproseu Tor tie first time
/ in history concerted acton OF all Protest
4 ant DENOMINATIONS and backed by the most
prominent business men Of the United
States and Canada, final preparations were
completed here today for the launching
Of the Men and Religion Forward Move
msnt. which it is expected Will bring a
new type Of Gospel to the North American
continent. This will be the Gospel Of a
I socialized Christianity or a Christianized
social service. which will be the slogan u
+ an eight-months' continental campaign to
I be launched at Minneapolis early In OCto-
4 Der and to include the ssventy-fivc largest
cities CT the United States and Canada
! Prominent denominauonal leaders assem-
/ BLEED here this week, after a study OF the
American social and spiritual unrest eX-
] tending over period OF two years are
convinced that they have found the cause
Of the weakness Of the present-day church.
and how to remedy *, and many of them
have pronounced the Men and Religion
Forward Movement campaign the crystal
lization Of their Investigations. as the
/ greatest religious movement for three
hundred years.
! Delegates from nearly forty Of the
states and provinces in this country and
/ Canada cheered the declaration OF Fred
/ 3. Smith OF the international Young Mems
| Christian association committee and the
campaign leader, The modern church must
either run from It's plain duty or come out
/ on the nlins line and fight for a new
vision OF the brotherhood OF usa-'Socia!-
/ lied Christianity or Christianized Social
] Service.
! Record of shameful Cowardice.
Maintaining that the history OF many Of
the churches in our great cities has been
| a record OF shameful cowRrdice,' and
that they have retreated from the great
/ problem Of the day, the Rev. ". J. VIII
la,nson pastor OF the Third Baptist church
/ OF St Louis, another OF the leaders OF the
/ conferences, stated. II the modern church
would regain its lost prestige and become
[ virile factor IN the twentieth century.
it must turn about face and meet men in
practical, human effort to helping an
swer the burning social questions Of the
day"
The Rev. / J. Lansing, head Of the Re
form bureau OF Washington, d. C, who
will be one of the prominent speakers in
| the continental campaign. which the Men
] ana ENGlElDn OEWa4u A1bNtAA4Eul VIII H.
augurate in October. stated. 1T is not
enough for the Gospel to make q regen-
Grated man; II must help him to make a
I rcgenerated society. Unless It can aid him
to make a better environment for him
self and for his neighbor. it cannot be
virile force in modern life The time
is past when it is enough TO say that we
/ love our neighboT we must prove il, II
we are going to take the church down to
mems hearts. and the men up TO the
| church's heart"
Must Reclaim NciEhbOrhOOds.
Raymond Robbins, the noted social
worker Of Chicago, who is deyoting a for
tune TO the practical upIift OF the city
slUms, and has agreed to become one OF the
{ leaders of the campaign, declared: Too
many OF our churches are Ike a street car
with the trolley off-if they are to use their
power they must get their troIleys back
on the circuit They have wonderful power
10 do big things; the trouble is that they
are not connected up right. They must
learn that il is not enough to reclaim the
individual; they must reclaim the neigh
borhoOd and city in which he lives. They
must learn that It is not enough TO dis
cuss ethical or Biblical problems 1900 years
old; they must meet and answer not By
words, but by actions the great social and
civic problems Of today which they Will
find not in the church. but out OF the
church. Every problem affecting the social
environment Of today should be a problem
of the church; the relation OF capital and
labor; the Sums, corrupt government, dis,
ease-breeding milk supply, life crushing
tenements, tuberculosis our disjolnted
school system, question Of our boys and
girls. The church must deal not only witt
the questions OF a mans morals, but with
the question of a mans health, education
amusement II is useless TO preach to hin
the gospel OF a future salvation when h,
and his family are more concerned witt
the question Of securing their daily breaC
than they are with the question Of theil
souls"
Too Much He'll on Earth.
The Rev. Charles Sickle OF Brooklyn
the head of the Presbyterian board o.
church and labor. declared: Talk abou
preaching hell fire to the inhabitants o.
a city Stun district, who have forgotten
how 10 smile and to whom TO laugh is &
lost art; what they want to know is how
10 get out OF the hell in which they ar,
now living. No hell in the future can hold
as many horrors for them as the hell which
they know most about in the present. To
such, what does it matter whether I'll,
doors Of the church are closed or open
What attraction has the nowery sermon
and the brilliant Grafton. what meaning
have the fatherhOod Of God and the broth
erhood Of man? Where is God? they ask
and what cares man? they say. The church