| Show IVUAKNUSS < 01 M fl V11I VMSM The Interstate ClvlcIlilllntlm conference closed Its iNcel0a ucslott at llattle Creek Michigan on Saturday night During the week some note bla papers were rend relating to the moral physical political and religious state of the world The dlncusKlons of the vailoum questions wr not con flned to a national vlewbut embraced < the state of tho whole world especially the civilized portion There were some von direct statements regardIng regard-Ing Iho drift ot society toward a < on IIlion that requires a radical change In enter to check social degeneracy To end the sit days meeting of the conference there wa lroalIt1 nn mlJrms by Rev 8 1 Ilfrrtn of Chicago on the topic How to Drain the Social Sewer In which the preacher who la I necictari of the conference made these marks The Barrel ewer In I the greatest Ovil of today In Christianity Should lie Ills curt but the orllnlll1 Chrlsllall church 11 I 0 Cnll Th proUt ebUr < h does not touch thi gnat evils Ilon to hent wound must be a broad 08 the wrongi aie In a Chinese Chi-nese city are twenty seven Christian ae < ts but imgtilRm does not knot they are there In Michigan only one nnn out pI ft dozen goeo to church nllll many more ae moved l 101 Ihe Spirit of Christ who Ore true Chrl thing nlthouKh nupportlne no urn Despite I adverse irltlolrm no church 5 doing a great pliflunthnwouruhilrle today n > tho Catholic yet rnasifflnnd serniono will never rcmolb what la needed churches burdened with debt cannot easily help others Intemperance In-temperance Is I thriving despite efforts ot the chuuh More beer and wliMy tire Ing cnumed than vi or N fare The W e T II was orgnnla1 RIOT most a thrill Ihlugh the land Iou It has gone Into political til h kry nod will never put down lh tlalhl ThY Th-Y NI C A meant to 10 f 01 but is I Worldly It ought to 100 burlI It in l a cur I H as a philanthropic i v nIl tIt I t-It IK fraud though aa a club It H I nt rt inlng Th r ar qi rr Is ov r the olllr rs but no r al re d I Ion There will bo main who rgald Mr IIrrrln statement all Inadvisable Inadvis-able and even natlc hut 1Ir will bo none to dispute successfully III ae curacy especially with reference to what he calls the organized Christian Chris-tian church Ills charge In etfctt Is I that that church Is I npostale from the real work of Chrllllanlty anti tho fact that the great bulk ot tho people take the same view nhovrs that Christendom Is I about converted to Its own apostasy from the prlmlllvo Christian Church which was the reverse of failure In Us lunch upon the greater as well as the Usncr eills nut the discovery of the d pvrtur of the alleged organized Chilstlan chuich la I not n new piece of information to this century for nearly four wore yearn ago away back In 110 a divine mngr came from tho heavens and declared the universal aportasy of Christendom And the fact that the professing Christian sects had a form of Godliness but deny the power thereof The enlightened world religious nnd otherwise Is I comlll to n realization 01 the truth IIC the divine declaration referred to and will grow rapidly closer thereto from this time 00 The Inherent weakness oC sectarianism In I becoraluli apparent to all thoughtful mlndi |
