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with contributions from W. D. P. Bliss, Issac O. Rankin

Our churches lose their grip only as they fail to let go of the outlived and outloved. They have to recognize that the people have become utterly indifferent to those affairs which dominated the old pessimistic era. Who indeed constitutes the Church to-day, and who are best qualified to represent Jesus Christ to the present generation? Is it those who have formulated creeds out of antiquated science, which they insist that we shall fight for, whether we believe it or not, who have built costly churches which they lock up for six days in the week? Or is it the industrialists who work six days in the week and do all their work, but, if, on the seventh, are not found in the assembly with the minority, are somewhere giving themselves for the betterment of the world? The matter has got to be looked into. Who are the Christians of the twentieth century; and to what class does Jesus naturally belong?—The Christian Register.

If again, we are to do our work in the present day, with all its sociological and economic problems, the Church must speak the language of the people. It must, to take an instance, know the manual worker and the social reformer, it must feel what they feel of the injustice and oppression at which their souls burn, and it must apply Christian principles to the solution of their problems. The victory will be more than half won if the Church can make them understand that it knows their problems. The victory will be a miserable failure, and the repel men who ought to be won to its ranks, if it cannot bring them its inspired message translated into a language that they know.

The Churchman.

It is an old-time question, How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? The attitude of the present age is one of neglect of Gospel rather than positive opposition to it. The Golden Rule is admitted—and forgotten. It is not a case of theoretical, but of practical irrecognition of Gospel. But neglect of the Word of God is really contempt of it. There is no neutral zone where that may be found which is neither Christ nor anti-Christ. The type of character demanded to-day is that which is out-and-out for Jesus Christ, Nothing else is satisfactory; nothing else is safe.—New York Observer.

"Great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt," The man of great faith may always count on having way. The warrant and the safety are evident to him who knows what faith is. Through faith man's will is made one with God's; the only possible prayer for a man of great faith is the prayer of Gethsemane, "Not my will, but thine, be done," Large faith prays until it has its own way, because it comes in any event to desire God's regnant way.—The Pacific Baptist.

Can we who believe in Christ doubt that to-day, as old, he, the unchangeable, comes to offer the healing touch? While we wail loudly, "If thou canst do anything to help us," surely he waits, saying, "All things are possible to him that believeth," for he does nothing unlawfully.
The author of "Pro Christo et Ecclesia,"

The Hibbert Journal. God's delays not refusals. Sometimes we have to say to ourselves, "This is trial time: now, if ever, I am to put my faith which could only be taken out, like a delicate garment, in fine weather? Issac O. Rankin. The Congregationalist. Life is continuous and unbroken. There is not this world and another world; there is one world. There is nottime and eternity; it is all eternity. Immortality is not a future hope; it is a present possession.—The Outlook.

The Lord of Life cannot be enthroned in our hearts, unless the life of the Lord is lived in our daily deeds.

REV. W. D. P. Bliss.The Churchman.

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