Article November 9, 1907 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Charles Stelzle, R. J. Campbell

[The Congregationalist.]

Catholicity and churchmanship alike become meaning less terms when divorced from the life of the common people among whom Christ found the sphere of his work. Neither can exist without broad comprehension of differing opinions and flexibility of working power.... So far as our American churches, of any name, are exclusive and not inclusive; so far as they appeal to the social class and not to men as men, they are sectarian, for they have to this extent cut themselves off from the Body of Christ. It is always sectarian thought which takes for granted, consciously or unconsciously, that the people exist for the church and not the church for the people. And a body which selects its adherents, consciously or unconsciously, on lines of social or intellectual cleavage, inevitably so far writes itself down a sect.

[The Christian Work and Evangelist.]

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