Show ENGLISH PULPITS AND POLITICS On One of the extraordinary features of the political revolution heb swept Ui th the I conservative out nut of or power and in installed installed stalled Ute the present British coalition In control of affairs was the tM part played tn in ti PM by the th nonconformist n min minister mm ister Iten i In PI r 1 hurdles h The IU tat lat ha al s been beeR Ip in sympathy 1 w th ih Ihra rai politics f to a large degree ee just juet as a the Established church ha hae it f ts b naturally with tw th Oll Iz rv party MIrty The af aC f or nf f both are entirely natural o une rone represents enta the oW ok order and t 1 oilier ether t her stands tand for the revolt again asahl 1 a it tate tato religion and lid control of opinion by uy y go government eminent authority It and most mot naturally too I that th participation of the n in n politics and the social move movement w ment menus attending political J activity have han reacted nn nfl the th pulpits until the charac charse character ter of or ministerial activity has ball changed remarkably remark bl in the th past Instead d dof of evangelistic tlc I rf nt the go pel which had its i iI it origin v with ith the th Wesley e and continued I I on tn n dt II t tn Spurgeons day the modern British h nonconformist minister has lias 1 become transformed tran into ino a political agent his hi Church into a center of or soda social 6 reform ref through h political means As one ORe of or them has put It they propose to abut about ab ut the kingdom of C Heaven on en onearth earth and do it by eal action I it itIn Tn In a study tudy of ot this halge haige in church hurch conditions me ORe oC of the theLon Lon J cites rite some In la sf stan an r in point SpurgeonS successor I as 13 th loader of In hi Eng England ng ngI I land Ian i I H l v T Dr r John Clifford of the I in tn in Iv hapel There will lq I nn in rater Pater contrast between bet bett two to t 0 rim rei than thai thre U is I the late latend mid ind nd r rp nt leader of f the free fee thui hW 4 hah hWA Hp was wa i a gie great U preacher who A I I had th po pOJ i i r to move mop mens tines and nd lo I o w n ri them Ih i m to t tight light Dr A 1 is also aio a treat great platform orator but Ma hl Ii i style st Is 18 not emotionaL He Is Its an IUt o organ oran n or er r and a director of religious movement and he be is II an avowed social socialist At Ai the recent Ent meeting of 01 the Free FIte Church thur 1 congress at Swanson Swansea he ho said saidI I 1 a as born a socialist I have been a socialist t and wv wW w toe ie a socialist In the next world Nothing further from Irow t e spirit of could be he heima imagined ima It t is Ie probable that he never Kave gat a 1 thought to political questions His HIM whole hot life was wu devoted to making men saints saint dint Arther exponent E On nt of tf the new ne move movement ment meet in ill nonconformity non is il Rev It R n J Jc c of nf the CU Ct Temple London the head front of or the ew Thee Theol Theology ogy oCy Campbell Is ic also Io an ll but with the difference dl e that h hi works work ork with the hE Salet party T rr Clifford devotes himself to In la lanig nig ing nd the Liberal Tart part other ther r political parsons of note among the free church ministers 1 are ant Rev ReT r P B R Meyer who i lor is s the present pr eat ir of or Spurgeons Spur ne pulpit and Bar Re Joseph and Silas Ial K Hocking brothers brothen woo who RIP are perhaps better known knon as novelist than hall t as a clergymen men Ret Kev Ite Jo Joseph Joeph seph eph started II a discussion ston all an allover anover allover over the country by a bitter attack on the nf f Rome at the recent receRt Free FN huT birr j a I Tr men mn have haf a Irgo 1 following cf f four our r among mon the t le If less notable mints minis ministers tei s of 4 f the free but Is l I 1 also a 8 strong tron party which Is III opposed to the ien oe tendencies of nonconformity t hut v has been n until quite recently The most nt exponent ex n tnt ent of nf this tins view iw is Rc Rt s flog n neM em erg v ho hn is I knon as 81 the th grand old 11 i t iman man of nr nonconformity and who de di dared dand emphatically at the end of the th thelast lost last meeting of the Free Church council that it ft ought to be abolished d Later he ic fI modified this statement somewhat and declare 1 that what he meant was that its constitution ought to be bf radic radle radically ally aUy reformed 1 Tt Jt has become a mere i caucus aulus he and it is not representative of ol the th torM bi I and tnt n most spiritual elements m in n m I The rho business bosnes of the i pt is s to t dl i i g 1 tr tn i nt ct t T oTt c ip i Foray Forsyth ih P D 1 D I of the theDr i j jJ J I al Mie and nd Dr 1 Vat r if v r of r f the I Ir j cashe r t oll s p ao aoI n nI I d cla a agat sf ir ti thi tilt 1 t tc c e ast f Ihl Not ot T r st s 1 t mat irn int si r t polities but It 1 Is II In 1 ts tz on the tha je nt oT o J 1 t I church rhu h in m n laRd U L 1 this coun country country try the M a far tar as they are area ar a active tive at t al all them theist themselves selves wives with ith tl ui ut 1 t ty iR 1 England the l churches are allied with the tile masses masEM in strong str stroe to the American churches elt In Inthis this tId country the institutional church is Sa comparatively rare in England it te Si a aa marked a feature of ot religious organization thin tion and Is Ia constantly growing in power Possibly that Is one reason the tile religious leaders leader of or the En U lt churches are able to to hoW hold the common comm n people hi in their congregations while the American brethren find their audiences constantly D in the attend attendance attendance ance anee of or the classes eta es that most need re religious reI direction and Inspiration I |