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New-York tribune., 1918-02-24

In Berlin, Ont, a thriving city, the
fond GermanCanadians erected a
statue to the Kaiser himself. This
stimulated the British-born to erect
near by statue to his relative, Queen
Victoria. The good Queens statue has
had the better of the encounter, mas
much as the populace dumped the
kaiser'ss bronze replica into the pond on
the outbreak of war, and then had the
name of the city changed from Berlin
to t,, Kitchener to clinch the argument.
Was 1T in this war incident that Pro-
fessor McElroy got his inspiration?
Germans do not hide their light
under q bushcl. They also have on
Scott Circle an imposing and indeed
a beautiful monument to Hahnemann,
bearing this legend: "Similia Similibus
Curantur." Can this mean that
dose of German Kultur will cure the
world Of like Affections? Another in
scription reads, "Dic Milde Macht Ist
Gross" And still another, "Christian
Frederick Samuel Hahnemann, Doctor
of Medicine, Hofrath. Leader of the
great medical reformation of the
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Peace of God" by Saint Gaudens,
Rock Creek Cemetery

there not ingratitude here, or did The
early Americans know the situation
beeeer7 Certainly Beaumarchais, be-
trays all the counterparts Of a friend.
philanthropist and hero.
Benjamin Franklin at the Paris
court enlisted the sympathies Of numer-
ous persons including those we have
already celebrated, and among them
Beaumarchais. The man who wrote
The Barber Of Seville" was more than
t.. witty playwright. In his iconoclastic
"Ihe Marriage of Figaro" which
should, be dear to the heart of Ameri-
cans cans he shocked the aristocracies Of
Europe with his witty exposures and
almost Bolshevik cynicisms. 1t was
true democratic passion that prompt
ed him when he had made money in
speculation to loan his fortune to the
bankrupt colonies, to induce the French
government to make loans and to Sc
cure loans in Spain for the American
cause.
This he did without official encour-
agement at first, and finally in spite
OF OF the tact that his loans were not
pelng repaid. When he died in 1886
the United States government owed
him 100000 francs. which it had no
means of paying. The Beaumarchais
family IN 1885 compromised on 100000
francs. The fact that the nation found
1t hard to pay its debts then is poor
reason why the nation should now
neglect to pay its debt of tribute to
this French patron of liberty. Onlv
frenchmen, with their tremendous zeal
and devotion to a principle, could dupli
cate the sacrifices of Lafayette and
Beaumarchais
This ,dramatist fnanccr- patriot also
financed De Grasse, admiral of tbe se1o Gov
ond French feet, and sent to America
bIeanharnals. whose wife, Josephine,
later married Bonaparte. Bcaumar,
chaiss, then, it was who financed the
snlght errantry Of all the others, cx-
ceptlng the first Lafayette venture.
Among. these knights of democracy
whom Washington now celebrates in
prone were Won Steuben, whose new
statue stands OH the northwest corner
OF jackson Square, and Kosciusko.
whose o heroic memorial is on the north
east corner, kosciusko, the Polish
patriot won his spurs in the American
Revolution, in 1777, under Washington.
whose cause thus singularly appealed
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| see all denominational emnhasis
,et ociIo

| see all denominational emphasis
set aside.
see cooperation, not competition.
In the large cities l see great religi-
GUS ceptres, wisely located, adequately
EQUIPPED, strongly supported and in
spring their members to participation
IN all community matters.
In smaller places, instead of half q
dozen dying churches, competing with
each other, | see one or two strong
churches, uniting the Christian life OF
the town; great economy in plant, in
money, i'll service, in leadership: money
enough saved in this way to support
adequately home and foreign missions.
see the church moulding the thought
or the. world as it has never done be-
tore, leading in all great movements
as it should.
y l % see it literally establishing the
Kingdom of God on earth
Shall this vision be rcalizedo The
1uturc of the Christian Church depends
on the answer Christian men and
women give to that question.
We HAVE been considering the de-
w mand for united Christian
Church from the point of view of the
worlds need for Christian leadership.
lhere Is another motive, not less com
polling, urging the churches on toward
that end In the Germans and Allies
we may find an analogy that makes this
necessity clear.
Whatever we may think of the mo-
tive that actuates Germany in this
great war, there is one fact in the
German situation which commands our
dmlratlon-that is the perfect cooper
alton IN which the whole nation is
working, every individual interest and
desire being subordinated to the one
great object for which the nation is
fighting.
The Allies, on the other hand. be-
cause of the unavoidable lack. at the
outset. of close cooperation and suh-
ofdlnatlon OF the interests of each to
the common interests of all, have in
consequence sacrificed hundreds of
thousands of lives and billions of dol
lars which otherwise might have been
saved.
Do we not find close parallel here
10 the eternal warfare which is being
Waged between the forces of evil and
the many branches of the Christian
Church? The former, like the Germans.
always stand in solid, unbroken
pnaianX, ever ready for any onslaught.
While the latter, like the Allies. al.
though headed toward common goal
are often so preoccupied with Their in
dlVldual interests and petty differences
that their attack upon the common foe
is not united, is less effective and more
eXtravagant in its use of the sinews of
war
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The Allies are coming rapidly to real
lze that national interests must be for
gotten OR at least subordinated and
every ounce of strength and nerve
thrown into the common cause, if the
victory is to be won. SO Christian men
must come to see that only by the full
est cooperation and the withdrawal of
emphasis from all non-cssentials can
the many branches Of the Christian
Church, standing together on the com
mon ground of Christianity, hope for
victory in this great warfare against
sin.
WHEN Christ came into the world
w lie found the church loaded down
with ritual and Journalism. Every
mlnutest detail Of daily life was gegu-
lated by religious enactment. In the
eyes of the church the most religious
man was not he who gave to the poor.
who helped the unfortunate, who was
uhselhsh, meek and lowly, but he who
Nept most punctiliously every jot and
tlttle of the law. The spirit of Worship
mad been displaced by empty form.
10 establish spiritual righteousness
IN the world, to build up an internal
rather than an external religion. to em- ,,n-
Ehaslze the responsibility of the in
alvldual to his Maker, that was Christ's
MISSION on earth.
Few and simple were the forms uo
set up or sanctioned, such as baptism
and the Lords Supper, but they we're
wonderfully beautiful and filled with
sacred inspiration.
Saptism, typfying the washing away
or SIN by the baptismal waters and =
reolrth into newness of life in Christ
Is an ordinance of profound symbolic
meaning and one of great helpfulness
20 many people. Christ himself was
baptized: He preached baptism; he
&C commanded His disciples to baptize;
ne regarded baptism as an expression
ol o. a"ectlon between the soul and the
Saviour. He did not, however. make
1t a condition of church membership
as is commonly assumed, or look nnon 1p'
1T as an act relating the believer TO
the church; nor did His disciples.
baptlsm was made the door of the
Shurch by man, such action being
oascd on lnferences from the words Of
Christ and His disciples.
inc Lords Supper, typifying our
aS5slmllating Christ's very body and
nlocd, that we may be more like Him
IS also an ordinance rich in symbolic
beauty. Far be it from any true fol~
lower of Christ to minimize the sn;r;t-
ual value of these symbols. In this
day of materialism they should be nre-
served and guarded with increasing
jealousy, for they foster the idealism
OF our religion.
In the face of the great problems of
sin and evil with which the world is
confronted to-day, can we imagine that
were Christ to come to earth aeain
lie would regard the observance or
non observance of these and Other
ordinances and individual beliefs. or
the manner in which they are observed
as OF sufficient Importance to iustifv
the separation into rival factions Of
good men, all members of His spiritual
Kingdom, and controversy among them
about doctrines? '"e'''
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the right, logical and natural solution
OF the problem. 1t must be realized,
and the responsibility therefor rests
upon each member Of the Christian
Church.
Let us picture for moment what
this reborn church would be.
1T would be called the Church Of the
Living God.
Its terms Of admission quould be
lore for God, as He is reucaled IN
Christ and His lving spirit, a1,d the
r1tol translation Of las lore into a.
Christllke life.
Its atmosphere would be one of
warmth, freedom and joy, so sympa-
thetlcally and distinctly manifest as to
attract and win into its fellowship the
followers Of the Religion Of the In
articulatc.
1t would pronounce ordinance, ritual,
creed, an non-essentlal for admission
INTO the Kingdom of God or His Church.
what a man does, not what he pro-
1esses; what he is, not what he has.
ITS object would be to promote ap-
pled religion, rot theoretical religion.
inns would involve its sympathetic in
terest III all of the great problems Of
human life; in social and moral prob
lens, those of industry and business
the civic and educational problems; in
all such as touch the life of man.
AS Its first concern, it would n
courage Christian living seven days a
week, tlfty-two weeks in the year.
rather than speculation about the
hereafter.
1t would be the church of all the
people, of every one who is fighting sin
and trying to establish righteousness:
the church of the rich and the poor. the
wise and the ignorant, the high and the
Iowa true democracy
its ministers would be trained NOT
only IN the seminary, but quite as much
IN lie, with the supreme emphasis on
ilie. For 1t would be an important part
OF the preparation. Of each that he
should spend months, years possibly.
working with his hands in the fields or
the shop, doing business in the store or
the office. so that he might not have
merely laboratory acquaintance With
the problems of human life, but the
practical knowledge which alone comes
from actual experience and contact
with them.
Yes, the ministry Of this church
would live in vital touch with human
ity; it would understand and svmpa-
thlze with human difficulties, and
would exert its influence as much in
living as in preaching.
MOULD that l had the power 70
bring to your minds the vision
as 1t unfolds before me!
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spear Of Mars" bending over a youth,
giving him military instruction.

spear Of Mars" bending over a. youth,
giving him military instruction.
This much of Frederick the Great is
perhaps acceptable, irasmuch as Won
Steuben was not Frederick's gift to the
American colonies. nor vet was Won
Steuben's statue the gracious gift of
the Kaiser to Americans.
The Kaiser's gift was the statue of
Frederick, whom Professor McElroy
called "The Vile" 1t stands with sin
ister relationship in front of the War
College, suggestive Of his Machiavellian
craft.
Frederick the Greats gift was the
10000 Hessian troops who came over to
undo the democratic labors of the 5000
French volunteers. We say Frederick
though the Hessians came only in part
from Prussia. in part from Hesse and
from other German states. OF these
$1,000 returned to Germany. The
others, including the dead, thought bet
ter of it. No heroic statue of the Hes
slams mars the landscape of the ma
tional capital. nor any tablet to their
leaders, Won Heister and Won Knyp-
hansen.
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ing moderate possessions are making
great sacrifices to meet the demands
made upon them. And the Door. al
ways most generous, are giving their
ALL
~ o, as we look at this picture, we
\, say, These people are leading the
Christ-life. their inspiration comes
from God" Yes, it is true. but MANY
OF them do not know it. We ask, "Of
what church arc they?" But the very
thought gives them pause, for they
regard the church as the abode of
tne "Better-t than thous,' an organza-
tlon in which men and women are
gathered who profess one thing and
from which they go out to live an
other. 1T is, from their viewpoint
an institution which has little SYM
pathy with them or understanding of
their problems. Donald Hankey speaks
OF these people as followers ,of 'The
Religion OF .hc Inarticlatc." Their re-
llglon is expressed in life, not in
words.
With renewed faith we turn from
the picture and say with confidence.
"Chrlstlanty has not failed; the
ohurch may have failed, but not
Christianity. For never in the history
OF the world was Christianity a more
vital force III human life than it is
to- day
In the presence Of this great host
OF the followers of the Religion Of the
lnarticulatc, who, broadly speaking,
d,d not come forth from the church,
although directly or indirectly ali
have been more or less .afluenced by W
1t: many of whom have faced death,
have lived life far worse than
death. have sacrificed their all, we
ask, "W hat OF tha future of the Christ
ian Church? ?''
Will these people, freed from the
restraint, of military discipline, which
numbers of them have been under for
years, released from the high tension of
life, find in the church as it exists to-
Gay the leadership, the guidance and
tho anchorage which they need and
have right to expect?
Rcgretfully we answer, "No." For
the church does not speak their Ian
guage; it does not understand their
needs; it does not sympathze as it
should and must with their problems.
IF THIS be true, one of three things
is inevitable:
First, this unorganized spiritual force
winch Is silently dominating millions
OF lives will not be conserved, but will
die. Such thing is unthinkable; it
cannot be; it must not be. For so
mighty force, born of bloodshed and
suffering, If it can be preserved, if it
can be nurtured, will more than repay
the world in the days to come for the
sacrlfcc and loss of these awful years.
Second, the Religion Of the Inarticu-
late Will develop its own church, which
vii! be the church of the future, find.
ing ITS leaders among the laity; and if
thus happens, as is not impossible. it
Will be conclusive proof that the church
of to-day has failed.
Third, the church must have a new
birth and be reorganized to meet this
marvellous opportunity and great
human need. This last alternative is
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Rochambeau, Lafayette Square

Nineteenth Century. Founder Of
homeopathic School," The "reforma-
ton" reduced the dose Of physic for
the sick world until later "reforma-
tions" reduced the dose to zero.
In Thomas Square, on fashionable
Massachusetts Avenue, stands the
stolid and heroic figure of Martin
Luther. with his hand clenched upon
a Bible. The figure suggests the
author of the robust "Table Talks"
He has not come under any recent
Kultur ban.
The search for fundamental tradi-
tions in capital symbols leads one to
the new memorial designed by John
Boyle to John Barry, the Irishman,
who was commodore of the United
States navy during the Revolution. Re-
publics are not entirely ungrateful,
then, for Washington, forgetting some
of our benefactors, set up most of
them upon pedestals, that youth may
swear thereby.
Taking ourselves away from the
beginnings Of the nation and looking
down the dramatic perspective of our
brief history, do we discover our me-
MORALS to be the true speech of the
national heart, the symbolism by
which it makes all its desires known
to the world?
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Nation s Builders
Not Represented

Alas, no! This has been nation
Of great achievers in invention, ex-
ploration, building and manufacturing.
But the avenues of Washington are
bare of monuments to the Fultons,
the Bessemers, the Clarks, the Nc
Cormicks, the Singers, the Reming-
tons, the Fields and the Morses.
There do not pass in review before
the physical eye those heroic figures
of earlier American tradition, Raleigh,
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to men who later made Europe ring
with their blows against mediavalism
In government.
win the freedom Of Poland. ''V4piin Of him it it
was written: "And Freedom shrieked
when Kosciusko fell" And so it is on
his monument in the square before the
White House, where he stands in his
Polish cap, surrounded by soldiers,
peasants and men enchained.
The Poles Are
Represented
General Casimir Pulaski, another
mounted on metal horse in vantage
point on Pennsylvania Avenue, at Thir-
tecnth Street, the inscription telling
that he fell at Savannah, in 1910. He
volunteered his services to Franklin in
Paris, and led "Pulaski's Legion"
The fourth statue on Jackson Square,
before the White House, bids US pause
For there on the pedestal runs this all
so German legend: "Frederick William
Augustus Henry Ferdinand, Baron Won
Steuben. In grateful recognition of his
services to the American people in the
struggle for liberty. Born in Prussia,
lI3O. After serving as aide dc camp to
FREDERICK the Great of Prussia, he Of
tered his sword to the American Colo
mes and was appointed major general
in the Continental Army. He gave mil
itary training and discipline to the citi-
zen soldiers who achieved the indie
pendencc of the United States"
Won Steuben came for a simulated
compensation under agreement with the
French government, and nothing evil is
said of him. Congress voted Won
Steuben the statue, a graceful one, con-
celved IN typlcally Prussian symbolism,
with figure bearing "the helm and
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Mr. Rockefeller has gicem Chuh oht be
eco9"n9 as ten churcen d the
INC or caoyn the failure and the
csence outside its os of body people v in the syt
~ processes 6h rejects its
me article IS reprinted IN fill Thc Saturday Eueniuo Post
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John Paul Jones, Potomac Park

Penn, Hudson, Boone, Marquette. Nor
are there bronze tributes here to Haw-
thorne. Irving, Emerson, Poe. Whit
man, Whittier, Garrison, Phillips. Ed
wards, Beecher, Bryant or Twain.
Adams, Jefferson, Clay, Seward, Blaine,
Sumner. Paine are unknown to fame in
Washington's streets. Kent and Story
are relegated to obscure inches within
the Capitol.
The men who flung Brooklyn Bridge
across the East River. who reared the
skyscrapers, who built the railroads,
who invented the reaper. the cotton
gin, the sewing machine, the subma-
rlne, the telegraph, the steamship, the
1ronclad, the aeroplane-thes evident
ly belonged to another race. The open
spaces of the national capital do not
recognize their existence.
Symbolically We
Have No Women
America, then, is not a pioneering.
a discovering, an inventing or build
ing nation. Neither is it feminine
For. aside from the rather stupid figure
OF Liberty crowning the dome of the
CAPITOL. woman is taboo. She is not
the fetch of American institutions.
Not a single statue to women greets
the yearning eye in the capital of
nation that rises and doffs its hat at
the sound of Julia Ward Howe's Battle
hymn of the Republic"
Will this period when thinkers and
doers are scorned and when woman is
contemned presently pass? Doubtless,
Tor the gesture of a nation changes
with the times.
There are records here, discernible
to the archaologist, when the race
that inhabited this continent dreamed
loftily of liberty" and of the "rights
of man." Other layers of traditions
later overlay that Revolutionary period
of Paine and Henry Then came the
heroic age of "The Man on Horseback. u
In this feverish hour of war the thir-
teen heroic equestrian statues that all
but monopolize the squares and circles
OF the capital attest the rewards which
the Republic pays to its defenders. A
stranger might hastily suppose that all
our history was lived under Washing
ton and within the five years of the
ClVll War and that our chiefest ideals
are men on horseback.
Pennsylvania Avenue is the avenue
Oh the war-horsc. Grant leads the
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Wal, oan we fancy Him giving His ap-
proVai 1no &c TO such course, which results
LOO often IN relaxing the warfsre
against the common enemy. sin to
oppose which Christ came to oertl
ana IN causing men to FORGET tbe;,
common responsibility, the needy
DT1rother, to help whom Christ gave
himself so constantly?
p;i5: Leu ordinance, creed, ritual. form.
blollca! Interpretation, THEOLOGY. ali
pe USED to enrich worship, or to brine
'he Denever into a fuller understand,
W.; ;mg oi i1lm whom VIC. worship; as each
.niuiVlaual or separate church NAV find
mem helpful toward that end. But
Noa forbid that they should ever. INV
~ ~ men, dlvert the attention from or
~ regarded as substitute for that
personal, spiritual relation between
ene soul and It's God which is the
essence OF true religion.
God forbid that they should e,,or
<'1s ol 'aem' be allowed to cause divi
s.o',S among the followers of Christ
or DC set up as barriers at the door
OF any branch of the Church of tba
Living God. VIZ
w HAT the world Graves to-day il g,
more spiritual and less forn . !
reilglon. To the man or woman fac;n'-
death, great conflict, the big nroblens
OF human life, the forms of rclieinn
are hollow mockery, the spirit an
lmpregnable fortress. az
plead not for Il modification of
1orm, but for its subordination to +ha
Splrlt; not for the abolishinr of ord;-
1ahces' but for their voluntary rathe,
man obllgatory observance; not ths+
,hese solemn rites should be set asida
hnl 'hat they should be entered into
as sacred privilege. an act of Iovine
ooHsecIa'lon' rather than submitted to
as an enforcible law. SO and so onlv
|'ii 'nelr real beauty and meaning
ue unoerstood and their true purpose
4 S WE face, then. the worlds need
ot great spiritual leadership, that t
humanity humanity may be brought into vital.
oaiiy relationship with living God
ana 'llaV all the forces of righteousness
may be united in an eternal warfare
against the forces of evil. we ak ana;e ,.'i Z Z
the question, What of the fut,~ss FIT, al'f 81
the Christian Church ?" This j. tho
answer which l give YOU:
Wy various DIVISIONS OF the church
as IL Is organized to-day catch the
VISION, have the breadth, the tolerance
the courage, and, Setting aside all non,
essentials, all barriers, will stand unon
the bedrock principles of Gods love
ana Christs living spirit, mot satisfied
un.4 the church is the church of all
soou men and women, until all good
onough's and deeds are laid at the feet
~ ~ sne LORD o. all good lifc," the
INTO being, ushering in new era ''n az
Christian unity. eiA "
w HAT an opportunitvl VIII.
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WHAT an opportunity. What
w. privilege! What dutu, Ia
,ss Sod:s name l ask, does any one dare