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Show upw en! IflRITY nuiiHli (jULILfnnl 1 1 I TREND OF THE M Great Church of Future a Spirit Movement Among Men, Not All Theology. That the relationships of mankind and nations are growing closer, and thyt the great church of tiie future will be r.oi so much a church as a great spirit, a mo e- j ment among men which will animate all 1 church organizations for man's advance- j merit, is the idea which was set forth by .1. Challcn Smith in iin address at the ! First Congregational church yesterday, j Mr. Smith's address, whose subject was "The Message of the Age," in part fol- I lows : j There are majiy who accept the statement that God gave a revelation t.o former ages, but. who deny that .He has a mcssago tor tiie present ase. I,ou ell says: "God is not dumb. tha.t He should not speak more; If thou hatt wanderings In th wilderness, wilder-ness, And find' st not Sinai, 'Tis thy soul is poor." God has a distinctive word for each century, uttered in the thunder tones of events. "Ye can discern the face |