| Show os lS Tories TI ICS I New Ne York Mall Ial Express Theto The fashionable tuh r J prayer raer are ae not not as u w ad nd adt f t 0 personal or have hat hath havene h ami r ne Sometimes they tem seem to be nn In effort t to vet away from Crom the Idea ot God m no their possessors often orten fancy the theare thoy are doing n very ery modern moer ery er fici treo und Uld liberal thing In putting them up They hey do not that they oro Illustrating the tho Invariable the ble dependence of man In tl all al ages oges lever fer more complete com than thAI In this con fretful epoch on a n higher pow tr 1 The person who emancipates him celt from the tho prayer book or from tin tho direct appeal that he hI learned to utter at al his mothers knee kne but n I place Ilace of or this thle petition puts pull the aguer aspiration of ot Stevenson or the sonorous ous OiS concluding lines of ot Po So live le tint that when thy th summons comes Is but confessing anew hit his yearning to get awny from the din In ol ot circumstance and bury his hil head hen In bosom of ot Deity Delt I Worcester Spy 51 In a moment of ot Insane rage rge Cain Clin struck down Abel and crimsoned the soil sol of oC the early earl world worl with wih his broth brothels ets els blood When Jehovah Inquired ol or Cain as OR to thu whereabouts of ot Abel Aliel tho frightened murderer uttered the thc saying which embodies the tho spirit ol of olevery every eer man woman from that day 10 to thIs who seeks s ks to eVade eado responsibility In the commonwealth or the tho church I II I eak on broad and universal principles s when I say I that thA rights and duties reciprocal ond equal cual If I we enjoy rights we e owe oe corresponding duties utes l If we 0 demand or assume rights hut hUl no 10 corresponding duties ute In II return we are members of ot the tribe trl of oC Cain no matter matr by y what Christian name Mie we may be called Sun To the worshiper In spirit and 1111 in truth the little chamber Is turned In III lod leed Into a n temple In solitude through the fervor teror of at hil devotion he unites Ih tho unseen congregation that no hounds bounds like the thu shepherd shephen on the hilltop hitop In the dawn of ot the holy ho day I alon yet et up UI by b the tho unheard prayers of or multi multitudes mul tudes nil ni over ocr the earth Not BO 81 our neighbor the tho fairweather Christian Christan le Ic looks through his window and set see ng that the tho weather Is so o bad b de decides cLes to remain nt home bore He has no bought of t the little to chamber of ot prayer but only of ot his bodily bo comfort hil surely cannot b the higher religion ot oC which Christ poke to the woman of ot Samaria it Il Is low egotism e that con can an avowed duty dut neglected one on more I tory scored by our common toe oc Christian Advocate Mr Hall Hal Caine author of ot The City CI In a communication to he the London Dally Dal News Newl asks Is III Jesus at fault Are the laws of ot life le too to luch nuch for him Has las the world found out nut that tha BO far as the government of oC he the nation goes he M II impractical Im and llos In saving Ing the Individual did ld Christ the collective soul loul t n the lurch Is I It 1 right that while nen en In their personal relations should bould themselves thel like Christians they Inn nay remain pagans or barbarians in tn ni ill that pertains to tu their national life Ic IcOr Or was WI JeRUS a n l I gl lator for tur the nn na Ion as well wel as ns for the individual And Andt Jt t so 10 to what ends ilo his hi doctrines jf ot nonresistance nonn the fatherhood of at GO lod and tho th brotherhood of man lend lead leadus lendus us I M nations and Ind as nil races No Nu esus Is not nt at fault tall The world world IR IRIt It yet et to ba be fully tul prepared to accept But It will them 11 Us teachings I wi nr Then wars Wit will 1 taking the he growth ot of population Into nto they the are rapidly c me nen the world orl Ier In nil al their ula rela Ions will treat tach loch other as I broth brother lols I er r Deore this is done however hOler men rn must mi t become like Christ In spirit Jele Pressing ln problems pr again are arc before he the church no patching or re remodeling r modeling of machinery will wl help tIer her t solve lohe With a 1 lapsing la ling population and nd a birthrate x by bf tl a a day d I i the thc finds her priesthood dimin diminishing I by hy leaps and bounds The he nUNI usually assigned for tor this alarm alarming ing In tact fact such ns as modern mOler doubts the of ot other professions the subsistence for a 1 clergy and so 80 forth aro or true tre enough Hut Bul a deeper cause must be looked for tor There can be he no doubt that while tho church movement has done Its It II work ork In elevating ing the tha standard tone of ot religion In doing away aWI with abuses and creat ereal creating I ing nn on efficient machinery Ha Is force ns as an 1 enthusiasm Is to a n great extent spent The he luis died away the romance the tho sentiment the glamour of at the tho awakening revival hoe hae i worn wor off ot Of Ot course courle honeymoons must be succeeded by humdrum years ot wedlock but thoughtful churchmen ore are aware Iwae of ot n certain failure In the Anglican system and spirit to touch tiie deeper Idealism of ot the human heart henrt heartHer Her bishops never neer seem quite to be belee lee In her divine Ine attributes find au ou authority The church appears always too much afraid of ot the thu modern tem temper ter per cither to guide or to resist it I afraid to claim caIm the tho submission of or the will selves wi or the sacrifice of ot her childrens |
