Article October 28, 1905 Issue

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with contributions from William Kirk Bryce, F. J. Gould

The Boston Transcript, in an editorial entitled "What Have the Churches to Say?" suggested by revelations of mal-administration in the great insurance companies, says, —"During the next decade the pulpit of this country is to be tested on issues which are not sectional as the slavery issue was, but are national. Clergymen are to be called upon to decide between democracy and oligarchy, between denunciation of evil or acquiescence in it, between maintaining churches solely as resorts for mystical devotion and rational edification or as power-houses for ethical and civic regeneration, and in the process of choice and consequent action a marked re-alignment of men and leaders and followers within the churches will come to pass."

The suppression of God's word in the conscience does not dismiss its message forever. The handwriting on the fleshly tables of the heart is brought out in more visible form as one goes on in sin. A man who does not heed and read the first gentle intimations in his conscience loses power to interpret God's handwriting as it becomes plainer. Moral and spiritual obtuseness grows upon him. He cannot discern the finger of God in his experience, although a vague terror may fill his mind. There is necessity for a Daniel to point out clearly the meaning of divine signs.

The Watchman.

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