Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-10-15
THE COMING NEW ERA.
All Kinds Of Thinking People Seek to
Anticipate Its Nature.

Anticipate Its Nature.
That the present crisis is more than
military Is realized by most The
Presbyterians see it as the beginning
of new era" and they have already
set in motion the wheels of a move
ment" bearing this phrase for a title.
II is a "harmonizing of all the agen-
cies" of the Church-dealing first with
1.-The fundamental teachings and mot
ives of Christianity" After this 1t Is
promotive- seeking to arouse the
Church to the needs Of the age. and to
do her duty to meet these needs. and
TO arouse her to furnish the means re-
quircd." THE New Era" says The
Presbyterian (Philadelphia,) "is chal-
!cnge to the whole Church to renew
her faith and knowledge in her Lord,
and enter upon a new obedience to his
will, new fellowship in his suffering.
and a new sense Of the power Of his
suffering. and a new sense OF the pow
or OF his resurrection" The Presby-
tcrian Church incites her evangelical
listers 20 join her. the Philadelphia
organ observing:
After the war Is over a new era
will be upon the world. Men every
where are endeavorinS to forecast this
era. and determine its needs. and the
means and measures Of meeting these
needs. No man or set of men are
competent to make an accurate analy
sis OF the forces and conditions which
all feel confident are now approaching
and about to assert themselves. Some
are confident that II will be chiefly
political, and its leading questions will
re those Of Nationalism and Internal
ionalism. Others speak of II as funda-
mentally a question OF righteousness.
But the conception Of Righteousness
presented is rather that Of the Jew. the
righteousness which Is OF the law.
not the Righteousness Of the Christian,
which is the righteousness OF God by
faith in Jesus Christ: 1t is rather an in
definite abstract-righteousn grow
ing out Of the faculty OF conscience,
which recognizes the existance Of right
and wrong, without any law or know
ledge Of the will Of God to determine
what is right and what Is wrong. But
the more rational and comprehensive
view of the crisis and the coming era
is that of a renewed conflict between
Christianity and heathenism. The
outburst of heathenism has manifest
cd itself in its terrible atrocities and
its determination to rob mankind OF
liberty and to subject them to the
cruel powers Of a world imperialism
Christian states have risen in the
divinely appointed use Of the sword to
| check and subdue these physical and
military outraRes. When this is accom-
plished 1t will be the duty Of the Chris
tian Church to reconstruct in faith and
morals the new age on the basis and
Though the power Of the fundamental
truths revealed by Jesus Christ. This
will require the development in the
Church of a renewed knowledge Of the
fundamentals Of the faith. The gen.
Grafton which is now passing neglected
the work OF instruction in these funda-
mentals. and gave itself to mechani-
cal administration and nervous ac-
ton. with weak convictions. Wher
the Church Is thus renewed in hei
faith and knowledge Of her Lord, she
will be ready for response to the press
ing appeal of the New Era Then she
| must be shown the great need of the
age and the world. and her duty te
meet them"