Show Neither Church Nor Creed There is a religious society with members mem-bers in Great Britain the United States Canada India France Germany and Russia which is composed of professing Christiana and yet has no use for church or creed The headof the society is the Lord Chief Justice of England and many bright lights in law literature science and nrt are connected with it Ii is called The Christian Kingdom But bears no rule does not assert any authority au-thority has no tenets to which its members mem-bers must subscribe and only asks that they will endeavor in all thingsaccording to their knowledge to be loyal to tho Spirit of Christ Voluntary contributions are received by it but no one is required to pay dues nor is member rated in any way by the amount of cash he contributes It is expected ex-pected that members will bring thesoci I ety and its aims to the notice of persons with whom they associate Its object is to encourage fairminded people of all classes sects and opinions to confer with each otheron moral and social questions and so far as possible cooperate for the general welfare of mankind It is expected ex-pected that each will lead a clean and honest life It is claimed by leaders of the society that Christ spoke of The Kingdom hundreds of times of the church but twice and that the Kingdom was to be one of this earth not of some other plan or future state Tho brotherhood brother-hood of man is what is desirable and the rich and influential did not in Christs time and do not now enter the Kingdom as a rule because there is little in it that is attractive to them The more lovely are those who endeavor to observe its rules and promote its interests The secretary of The Kingdom is a graduate of Trinity college Dublin an ordained minister of the Church of Eng land who has held important curacies and could now be head master of a church school with salary of more than 3000 but has declined all such positions to servo The Kingdom There are about 2200 members in the society besides a branch of 1200 juveniles under sixteen years of age T This is aneasy and simple sort of religion re-ligion if it may be so called and forms a refuge for devoutly inclined people who cannot accept the dogmas of the churches It has no organized propaganda but depends de-pends on the voluntary efforts of its disciples disci-ples for extending its cause It is a Kingdom King-dom in nothing but its name |