Show irl 1 confils or jr ir 1 it is a matter or taul surprise prise that Is mon men whose christian honesty Lon esly purity and belf are eld dd on every hand tire arc often men with whom lom we do n not 0 t like to moti mon to we vie do da not find ourselves attracted attract edmen mety with whom we ITO lave little that thai is u common there thera aro are clergymen or 01 great power and nil influence in their own denomination who are so 0 entirely out of place iu in general society that th they cy never neter appear in it luicir whole life runs boru in a sectarian rut and tends toward and ends att a tie vanan goal there thera are great ot of laymen hymen or of the timer atre a tort soft wb who lava hato no associations outside of their own church tho the thought that thoy they monopolize the truth they can regard no other sect with hearty toleration and ref pc CL their sympathies thies aro iu every dt and their culture daib to be ad mirable be because calibe it ib is 13 based on one sided views of truth and limited I 1 by 1 the 1 pre ascribed scribed tenets ol 01 their it 1 is no not an to this thia statement I 1 to nty bay that true christianity is never popular and that even its founder was wall not boru por ular it was the narrow sects eccli that limed b him it ittai haq the sm ibes end pharisees Pharis ees whom ho difo denounced umed that hat despised the th common keople people heard him gladly 1 ly and followed him jim and received ila society bud and minis ministry by the thou ands it itis if not ot to ta la be donica that th CT gro styles of character all and d culture only 0 u 17 indirectly formed by christian idem or by that aro are extremely lovable there are arc nien men and women who hiiri h it ve ind 1121 no n 0 con ac in Us chretian C bricca 11 experience abo faith is is either cither a negative n cg or roost most indefinite i quantity wo alq ma make ke no pub public lie of piety who do not even privately count themselves among in name yet who art iciness 4 citing the mast a mill baet hat we know their courtesy their their toleration and charity chanty make them iveal un fay oriton thoy they ign ignore all sects and all religious an and p po 0 I 1 loucal and social ji sometimes for tho church itself many prefer them fr for companions part ions to choso who aro are enrolled with them on church registers and aro aux pux filed 0 a know why it 14 that tab CI them MOTO more than they do those who tire ore nominally their brethren ilij a subject of borrow among tho the brebes cb of the country that thal tho the higher literature of the day is is very largely the product of men and women who have I 1 atlo christian chr autian faith or arnono DODO atall at all did it ever occur to these churches or the preachers prea chera who represent thorn them to 0 ask why this is Is the tha why ii 11 it that base men and women have tho the culture that makes their production acceptable to atho world why is ia it that they without may any organized schools to holp help them or organized bodies to patronize them produce that which is n read hy by all schools schoola and all bodies and are ard the acknowledged leaders in literary art thora thom is somo sufficient reason for this and it is not bat a 5 keawn that re red dounda to the credit of the type of christianity ChriStu mItY which DrO vaila it 14 1 4 time to look chii matter cly and candidly in bathe the lace face those these men inc and women romen ore are not bao baic ba ic o usurpers usurp ers of I a sway which by say fairly right belongs to others othera they rule because they lave hato the power to rule they if because ot of excellence the public f ato aro not deceived by them nor is their preeminence pre eminence th the a rull result of accident beet elthor either their sympathy of humanity in is better as a basis of culture and on an lo of df thought than the sampat sympathy y a of firer christianity or tho sympathy of christian Christianity ty puro pure and largo large and catholic Cat Bolio does docs not among the churches something is wrong somewhere and we can find that something nowhere nowhere butin but in the ILL narrowing nar rowin and dwarf ine in influence of 0 f sectarian culture cu 1 lure the byrn p humanity was strong in i shakespeare sh desp cal to and it was given to him III to weave at once his big own crown aal an that of tile the langua language qc in whit which h he ha wrote it was strong in Dic dicken kerm and the whole christian world turned aw away ay from its fountains founta ios to drink at that witch which his magic pen n uncovered it is strong in t tho 0 hundred n d r ed men and boulon whose brains tied and hands bands provide prolific the books which the world is reading today to day Is there no higher source of inspiration 7 wo we believe there i is a and n d that it is that sympathy battly of christianity which not bat only ignores but despises and hates all sectarian bonds bondi and bounds the christian who does docs not embrace ri all mankind in his hia christian regard with the largest toleration and goodwill Rood goo will and who does acs hot dot refuse to become the slave slate of a system and the creature of a creed can never produce a literature whish the world will read it his bas leco been tried i in n bools books in ma gablow gaz low in in newspapers and on the platform and it has always failed ff a must have a 3 broader church before we get a letter better literature and before the present literary powers will bo be deposed from their away 7 0 the hie tw dr J G dortz for lo liall |