New Britain herald., 1918-01-28
CHRISTIANITY NOT A
 FAILURE, IS CLAIMED
Key. ". F. Cook Claims It Has
 Not Had Fair Trial
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Christianity as an agency for good as not geen exposed as impotent in |he opinion of Rev. Warren F. Cook, kho spoke at his church, Trinity M. L, Yesterday, on What Christianity Asners Toward the Solution of the Present World Situation" The trouble Fith the world is that it has not siven Christianity a fair trial, 2 he Alaimed. If men lived up to and Aracticed genuine Christianity there soul0y be no war, worldly, rather that piritual emotions. have been allowed b become ascendant. The spiritual sas been shelved while man has al- Owed greed, avarice, envy and all the 9wer passions to dominate his acts.
 # Rev. MT. Cook championed Chris ganity against those who have claimed A is a failure because thousands of len 7who prowess to be Christians Ne now engaged in staying each Aher. He spoke as follows:
 # ''No one can treat this subject 8ithout facing the accusation that Christianity has failed either to stop @ arrest the progress of this war. So sninent an authority as Charles w.. Eliot, ex-president of Harvard uni Arsity, has made this charge of fail 6e ip the 'Cosomopolitan Student in Arong words, stating that the or #arized forces of Christianity, in Muding of course the church, even the Roman church, has not had the slight Mt power to stop or retard this con- @ct. He recalls that Christianity is Early 2,000 years old and has all Bays preached against war, yet less 8an 300 of those years have been 8a ac@ful years, and many of the wars Through the centuries have been re- Bious or holy wars in which the in-
 lence of the church was felt, and 3on which the blessing of the church
 #as invoked. MT. Eliot is only one of Hany who at least have misgivings Bout the whole matter Fosdick in #E little book on, '"The Present Misis'' says, "A thoughtful Christian Mu5t repent for himsef and for the 8urches for the lamentable made 2acy of our organized religion to
 eet the crucial need. Were it not for 8ch institutions as the Young Mems
 d the Young Women's Christian as- Relations and the Federal council of
 Ae churches of Christ, we should have M cover our faces in confusion
 arly minds today are like the social
 s who said to me at one time, We M we tried Christianity for nearly 8O00 years and it has failed. It is SMne for us to try something else"
 @ "Over against this we have the as rong convictions of man like Dr. a arles Jefferson of Broadway Taber- M cle, New York city, who, in his Mssok. What the War is Teaching MAnclndes that Christianity is the
 iy solution for the present world Sskpblem. Henry Waterson, editor ot X Louisville Courier Journal, evi- aBsn tIy thinks the same as pr. Jef- R son. for in a Christmas message he
 Es, Surely the future looks black zSkpugh, yet it holds a single hope SsM e and only one power can save Us
 hat is the Christian religion. De S cracy is the religion of Christ Ii N8 world is to be saved from destruc' Hn physical no less than splritua 9l# #sstruction, it will be saved alone by s@s Christian religion.
 a53 Harry Fosdick in the same book 8S 8 m which we have already greeted nirds us that while the church has Z been effective in arresting te war 8 td turn against Christianity fol
 @+ world be like an insane mar
 Aning against his loved ones and his 1#t friends. For he says he if Chris
 ity has failed then many other ot
 B lization's best agencies have failed o. Commerce has steadily set it. 8 against war, as also has science; SsStainly education, as we'll as interna |B hal law have been against war Ii a ristianity has failed, then these & failed also, and to cast these
 encies aside in the midst of peri
 8uldx be like a man cutting off his
 $ in spite because they had al
 Ted him to fall into a pit.
 Are not the facts these: Chris