The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-25

city or Philadelphia. at which a noted
missionary was tospeak, They Were
man a block wrong in the address
gwen them. SO they inquired OF sew
erai persons in the neighborhood. but
none knew % the church. Two drug
stores, both within a block OF the
church, were visited. but neither the
clerks nor customers knew the |
church. The telephone directory did !
not contain the church's name. Then.
That the WitherSpoon
building was Presbyterian h~eadquar-
tiers, the women telephoned there
only 10 be told that the persons al the |
otner end OF the wire had never
heard Of the church in question. At
81 the persistent missionary
women hunted up a Presbyterian
minister whose address they knew.
and learned from HIM the exact To-
cation of this great church which at
least once has entertained the Pres
byterian General Assembly. Then
they arrived almost too late for the
African miSSionary's address, All Of
which means, let us be frank to say.
That the congregation has not work
ed hard enough for its own neigh
TO IMPRESS its existence upon
the minds of the people who live
within its shadow. How can il. or
any other chur CHI, serve the country
at large If it As not ministering TO
the people at its very door?
If any church is not ministe-ing to
the nation, if she is not graphing
with the great problems Of patriot
ism which are at root moral and re-
NglouS and if she is not definitely
training her emberS in citizenship,
then that church has lost her salt
ness: she is a dead one" Her
candlestick has gone out. She might
as we'll be a social club or an old
ladies home. For she has failed at
the business Of being a church.
That mans the best ~cosmopolte,
Who loves his native country best.
-Tennyson.
The church of today is finding her
fleet and her hands. | am not sc sure
about her voice. But this is the So
cha service era. Work for the com
mon welfare is made the touchston,
of success for a church. Actual min
iStry to present needs is the new tes'
Of orthodoxy. In all her long his
tory, the church was never more eN
pert than today in practical service.
The life is more than meat. an
, IN Gobllt1N IL - lIIdh SOoo DiIli
, tation and thrifty conservation. W
: need to beware of the unitarian
who threaten to steal our soul. i
their relentless pursuits of materia
. comforts. Nations, like men. ar
. made by their ideals. AS a count
thinks in its heart, SO is it. TIL
unique Indispensable service whic
: the church renders the nation
in keeping the torch of idealisi
alight. She interprets patriotism i
. terms of the spirit. The noblest pas
sions are by her brought to bear III
on the duties of citizenship. Sh
fires the heart with a holy flame {
= loyalty to country which is a spil
= itual devotion. That is why a con
= munity needs preachers more tina
it needs fire companies.
: The highest good is impaired to
nation when it is given to God.
The Universal Church is just j;
n much a reality as any particular n;
10 ton is.-F. d. Maurice.
if The strength of Empires is in Il
llgion.-Ben Johnson.
ys Our present problems are soci
3 and economic, rather than p~olitica
. The cure for them. obviously, lies
If an alteration of mems minds. On
"a more neighborly, brotherly spir
can create a more n~eiShbOrly, broti
s erly state. At once we perceive tn
at it lies with the church to bring
is to this goal for she deals with mer
as motives. The new mind for the ne
"A times must be the mind of Christ.
Every time the church gives Il
a. State a holy, fearless and patriot
ie citizen She excels the service of t
~ makers OF cannon and rifles. For t
~ walls of our Sparta are our men al
OF vomen-"and every ones a brick"
no What agency, besides the Chr
tan church, is steadily, effective
o1 and generally holding the nation
OF a consideration Of the problems
III Immigration. of temperance, of G.
CONGESTION. Of probity in public me
The standards OF Christianity are i