Article September 20, 1900 Issue

Twentieth-Century Religion

The Interior

The twentieth century will not be a century of atheism or mere secularism. People still have souls to save and they are interested in those vital and fundamental themes which are ignored by the political and literary journals. Religion is still a mighty element in life, but it must be the real thing, not some imitation of it. The old polemic treatment is as much a thing of the past as the bleeding and cupping to which our fathers heroically submitted. The religious weekly of the future must be irenic or it is lost. It must breathe the spirit of the Master and be instinct with his life. It must not only admonish sinners but comfort saints. It must emphasize all the manly virtues and the womanly graces. ... Into the household it will come enriched by all the resources of art, itself a product of the highest mechanical skill and displaying genius and faith in every line. Many papers now living will die, in some of them the process of dissolution can be no longer disguised, but those will survive which are fittest to survive, and those are the journals consecrated not to a catechism or a past, but to a living Christ and a glorious future.—The Interior.

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