Show tt The I religious outlook of ot th the ii V la IS worthy of or our special attention it rt y cannot l be he denied that both hoth Catholicism und LI IUd m Protestantism i esta Ut iso a to losing bosi ii their rt power Iwer Over u human society while new 0 1 r l cled systems ani theorIes s fare n fire taking hold of ot thui Ih heart henrI In III of our In n tho the Interest of ot reason and i tl J c a it Now No lEaven clergyman t I t Newman Smyth collect attention It P to this fact In lii a sermon n I jo ro rot i t of Jr tho the we wo gather Bather that the tho qc speaker himself hi a 1 rca Jy ly I that can ann cannot it I nut not bo b i tho tic t mill nuil it ml bui heat pl of or the lie Christian religion It II ILl t mission HI wan wall stu the Iho e of ur in lii r f ii d It I liberty timid and this thia eon cun to n never hover bo Ito j 1 undone hut hilt that h hit t illusion is III about c elided According to 10 Dr Ur Smyth Irol 0 hats hus ms hod luul two t j ha H of ot which thu tho wit was Iho Ihl ago ngo of or Jr protest lIt against tho tue ont one great r at church then lien t existing exit hug and um ii ml the tho Willi Ihu ha I Il of or of ot now mid Il ld Thin hl second Ihus is III now 1 ended Tho tutis t linn exhausted i Itself lr und for tor two Iwo or thice generations cr have hue l to tu I liu Ie cattier ruthel than integrated Hu hit freely that la Ii of at furnishing limo from with within wIthIn in lii it t tho imo I n nuis w Cut huh ichi U Iii Uto I Ito to itt unite Christendom it IL having lost host tho thu unifying power 1001 Thu Hainan i s says lIa H pr UI Smyth once wall vas vasill ill ilK a II nUong cable one ono cud end of ot t J Willi was iut bound 1 to 10 tho thu power mil 1 thu other othir und amid of ur which was wan fastened to thu I hue v hole much at ot hu hutt i luau mun JIu ilfe It 11 controlled the thu world anti and 1 It U It would in ha antUm tho thu rope ropo on n Itu Ih human owl ha hut hall hallJr Jr fm oll iti out Olt ii tIL Into Inlo I nb many I l No N win tiit Kin eill il i iii lu of or if It Is la enough to tin tM whole social u It III ID lilt HO lii 0 many lit itt hauL one l n unity may move InO a jt I tell faw ev Th TM of C thin 1111 is III that IH Is to pans uway asay It In is to ho he merely mi nil dement In I mu II combination Oti with it It other elo cli el menta of ot the tha ultimate religion Willi IH III s true truo ot of In lit this thu respect In ht equally true rue of ot us is jut evident trout from Its status in III France FranceIn In 11 and in III this To 0 Irom Ironi tIme the In the Spring SirIng Held also huts hua 10 the old uld authority and has Mm host n I 1 rj over tho the control lug log forces of ot modern life lite that It lim IlIr It lost tho thu voicu of or authority in tile the state Indeed In a n Jew JIW and amid hits his lately hI been elected mayor naDor of or Homo lie tho holy 1111 my city that It has luza lost iott control over large huge of ot religious thought wild has lost to give 10 to thu the pit lIlt a 11 good religious education Dr of ot the failure ul ut Ilot Is it In iii reality u a or of thu tho fall tin of ot tile III Christian In I n nil ii ii of or Its I I s bra brunches The Thu iut it he ho faces is ha has tho the Chris Christian ChrisItan tian Itan church culminated Yes Yen that Is till tho great question of at tho present It facet faces us UA wherever r wo wa look AH As 11 revolted t tho of or Horne Home anti and appealed to III t the so so o higher revolt revolted ed Cd 1 1 against tho authority of ut tho th and now not holl many it Christian pulpit No matter how hov much It molly may bo ho regretted there thero la Is h decay deca df In lit tho thu religious world The rho Is 18 n a time of at transition Thoughtful observers of or history can cun no hM tolled felled to notice that at ut just periods the tho Almighty always alway has laid JaIl the tM foundations for br larr reconstruction In I n of or moral Lunch and religious de do decay cay i Noah was vas commanded to build the file e At such a II time Moses loHes Was t l ed up lIP and i eared In tho the wilder 1 i heHs ness liens Frat und and raised up oil under similar circumstances At St such n ft time the tho Son of Man Mail came Again In our age which Is acknowledged ed ell to bo ho one of ot religious It If not moral confusion the tim mighty Almighty Al has establish cil hiu ChUrch Ch n II ci a IL preparation for tor a Il anew anew new era erR lIe Ho has hl restored the Priest Priesthood Irle Priesthood t I hood und and tile the gifts Ho ITo has hus reopened the thu channels of communication tion tiun between heaven beaten and earth eurth Th Church of ut Chi 1st represents the om 1111 Modernism that hue has in It tho the elo elu ment of catholicity on Oil which unity can cnn bo br established The rho Is III Gods offer to mankind of lit an 1111 rem rom remedy romert remedy edy ert against till nil both social metal I moral and oud physical Ills iii of ot the world It has ban hn proved to he bo oven untie undo of or adversity lI such Buch as liS no Amer Amner American ican religious society Bodet has been called upon ullon to endure The Church however Is growing Anti And that Is it one of oe if tho the great signs of ot the tIme present |