Article October 13, 1898 Issue

THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE

B. Fay Mills

Church Union

Rev. B. Fay Mills, in the September Church Union, Boston, thus speaks of the Church of the future:—

The world will see a marvelous change when the Church confesses that she has a mission not only to the individual, but in behalf of the individual. Regarding, for instance, the great principles of health, where are we going to discover a cure-all for the world's disease? Some of it in our laboratories, possibly. I believe in laboratories, but I believe in something more. We are sick because we are incomplete, because we have not learned to control the things that are beneath us. I beg you not to sneer at people, even though they may seem to you to be filled with superstition, who believe that there is a spiritual remedy for the physical ills of man. There is such a remedy. How can a Christian minister denounce from his pulpit the people who believe that there is a spiritual remedy for physical ailments, when he believes the stories of the healing wrought by Jesus of Nazareth?

I believe it should be the part of religion not only to discover the secret of health, but also to discover the secret of material prosperity, and to banish poverty from the world. I believe the church ought to be a leader in everything. I can see reasons why she has lagged behind in the social procession. It has been because she had a theoretical basis instead of a practical basis.

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