Show RELIGION OP THE STREET Sermon by Rev C T Brown at Congregational Con-gregational Church In his morning1sermon at the First Congregational church yesterday the RCv Clarence T Brown spoke upon iA Religion of the Street and said In partThe The Bible history of humanity begins be-gins In the country nnd ends In the city The final destiny of the race seems lo bu linked with the city A city street 13 the world In miniature here we see riiena newest interests and oldest hal On our streets we have schools storcR shops saloons Fhe department and Hint disgraceful structure known as thc city Jail A slreet Is an epitome of our life and activities and OU Ifc acllte amoni these other institutions the church has C rightful place because the nature oman o-man calln for It I I man 11M not only l worker but C worshiper and all the activities of his life arc colored by his conception of God The church Is not the only means of learning about God but It is a moat Important one Our schools are not the only means of education edu-cation but C city without schools would soon become an Ignorant city and a city without churches would soon become be-come an utterly Irrcllglouts city The quality of a citys schools Is I nn Index of Its Intelligence and the quality of Its churches Is an index of Us morality moral-ity There Is no better place for a church than a city street because Chrlstlanily In I 3 religion with a message mes-sage nnd 0 mission to all the street represents Christ says to his followers that they arc not to abandon the world but to overcome It by I nerving It In the same high and practical way In which be served It Christianity calls upon Its men to grapple with the problems and the temptations of the street and not to run own from them |