New Britain herald., 1919-03-24


 sense Now these deep religious forces rhay go on to a far richer and fuller Christian belief if they are taken in the right way. Or they may de- velop again into kind of religion which is dangerous rather than bene- ficent for religion which goes wrong is a very dangerous thing in deed The real trouble with our re- ligion before the war was that it never seemed capable, when it went wrong of driving anybody mad. It wanted reality-and power. But thank God the old indifference is disappearing fast.
 'In such a time of stress and settlement of national rights, we have either to accommodate our God to the circum stances or to find a God great enough to dominate the cir cumstances and us who are in them. I believe that is where we stand to- day. It is only a very thorough going Christianity that the world needs now-one witch practices whole-hearted belief m living God. belief in prayer, above all belief in God in Christ belief that in Him we ! have the very center of reality. We 1 Christians of all denominations have i to win this faith in d new fashion, 1 and have got to go out and dominate the whole world with that faith. 1 "Therefore the only Christianity ! that can prevail in the coming ages is one that. learning from the pres ent tragedy, declares that Christ i shall have dominion ever our whole 1 international life. Not the dominion
 of he church. but that of the Spirit of Christ. We have to strive and to
 t>
 brought to bear in a, new way in all l the relations of the nations of the world. that each has its part in the l common task of brin gi1g in His King
 dom and that eacl! can only come to it's true individuality in the comm on | life of humanity.
 1 But we have to tn nk not only of
 international life and of how can
 win it for Christ. We have got to
 think of how the church itself may
 be strengthened for the world con l quest.
 ''There is nc more crucial question
 before the church, than how We are
 to win the youth of .the rising gen
 eration for Christ. We feared that
 the breed was becoming soft. 1 know that many ministers and clergy men have marked with concern that i large nun1D DcfS Ol our NOulH upon
 whom the hold of the church was . merely nominal They sat there in
 the churches just because their fath
 CTS sat there and not because they loved it as their fathers did. Now | the trouble was that though these men sat there. their children would not sit there. Many of us feared f that the rest of the matter was that the love of pleasure had left no room
 and of God.
 But thank God we have all got
 the lesson that there has been a pos
 sihility of sacrifice in the youth ot ' our country that many of us never
 dreamed of. What coura ge: What co. - operation and self-sa crifice. and what q a united body.
 n "Now what I can not help feeling q is. why should the church not be . able to awaken that kind of sacri $ flee? We have summoned them tt h come to the service Of the country | because the country needed them. Cal ,r we not make the same plea for thu q King of Kings and the Country O. J., Countries? What arc we going t, e do with sOns our young men >s who are already coming back home ,e There is hardly anything that we cal d apply our minds to at present o
 greater moment than that. My con | viction is that it is not all their faul
 that the church has hitherto not wo
 them to her great service. Let Il A