Article May 23, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Doane

[The congregationalist.]

Dr. Gladden believes that the Church is awakening to the social message of Christ, and that the time has come for a new leadership and a new evangelism; a new call to men, not so much to save their own souls as to enlist with Christ in service for mankind, with the redemption of society for their definite goal. This, says Dr. Gladden, "is indeed an enterprise so vast that we may well be appalled at the thought of undertaking it. . . . This is the heroic note of the new evangelism. The work of making a new world out of this is a tremendous task. But it can be done." Here is a definite return to the ideal that was central in the preaching of Christ, the bringing on earth of the kingdom of God. Never in the history of the Church, since the apostolic age, has this task gained the place it now holds in the minds of men. It is the dominant thought. It is capturing human hearts. It is manifestly the mission of the coming age. Have not all the centuries been moving toward this? And now the hour has arrived.

[The Universalist Leader.]

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