Show IN I THIS rhe Ilie twentieth century opened In n Christendom nom with nn on avowed Intention on the tho part ot of ninny many of ot the tho Beets to towage that wage VRR vage a ft warfare should make malle the age alile triumphant for tor Christianity Immense of ot O money mone to be le railed were In view vitI though not In hand hond It wn vaa 11 proclaimed Hint there thero would be e united efforts to evan evangelize the tha world The fhe contemplated not uni unity notty ty which la Is to the Ihl carrying out of ot the design n doos lOOB not seem to very Ier favorably The Tie division between the different not only continues with Its former force torce hut but still occur within the tho respective congregations This Tills is not only the tho case coso In to America but lut In other parts ports of o the tilO Christian world w The Liverpool Post of ot recent late date contains a lengthy report of ot nn on Evangelical conference bok In the Southport town hall hiatt Several church dignitaries were present and took look part partIn In the proceedings which were pro elded over by Hev Canon Hobson Hohson vicar of at Christ church Thu principal address was CiS by Hev Canon Aitken who referred to the skeptical spirit Of f the times tini q fostered fOstOre 1 by the contentions of ot modern theologians and by b the Iho Introduction Into the pulpit of ot the discussion ot of all Alt sorts of or topics V that hind had only the remotest t connection with Christianity If It they tho had hod any at atall all lie Ho d that what with Sunday evenings oven with the poets Sunday afternoons att with the what with the tho discourses on art and literature und and the discussion of ot modern social nod and political problems the One Gos Gospel pel of or the th gruce of God mid nit nil tho hue mo mu momentous momentous Issues that hunt hung upon It tt hind had to take a Jock bock seat and In camp fa ta favored favored places of at worship only very vary rarely allowed to make an and apologetic appearance He lie went onto say that the questions asked d by bythe bythe bythe the man In the street were such as ns these Why Shy should we bother battier Loth r our heads bends for tor forthe two the lU sake Buke of or religion about which Its own ln exponents cannot agree a religion that rests upon Ulon a n Hook that Is declared 1 to be mainly legendary mid mythical by learned professors sors who are paid to 10 expound It If It It has hall come como to this tM that the Incarnation and resurrection of ot Christ are aio to be tie regarded by Christian as ns open questions from rom tho the historical point of at view while the doc doctrine doctrine trine of o the Divinity of at our Lord Is to 10 tobe tobe be similarly liar retarded regarded from rom the theolo theological could they the wonder that men m 11 of the world ivorid should say Ra AO The Thoe game Is hi not worth orth tho the candle What sense can there be In ourselves In our en enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment of ot the things of ot this life lite for forthe forthe or orthe the sake of or a n religion that thaI seems a van vanishing quantity According to seine Mine tit Lot litany any rate of ot Us lis accredited teachers who iho claim calm to 10 be as Illi experts there scorns Item but little left len In iii the either to live IIvo for tor or to die dlo with Is ho nothing for tor It II therefore but to make th the but best we can of ot the bird In iii the hand It It may be a n very vcr poor thins thing hethe two which may mil or may not bo La boIn LaIn bein In this particularly dense bush Lush take car caN of ot themselves The Canon argued that t the tho fact tact that It i wa will ua to 10 a aRk k such questions did dl di not hot look very Wr ery much muth like spiritual progress tl Turning to 10 the tIle condition of or orthe the church and particularly to tG the branch of ot It to tG which the conference belonged he asked a whether it could be said that the prot t was Willi encouraging ing log He declared that he Joe apprehended They TIley sadly s tJ contemplated a condition Of or Intern Internal I strife more fierce anti and anI de tie t than anything that had been witnessed within her tier pale before They rhy were fen confronted by 11 a n deliberate at nt tempt tempI to the creed the cus CUI customs toms tome and the thoe of o the middle aga 11 blended with considerable in fusion rUston of o what did not exist even then loon the th mon fully tulI developed superstitions of or modern Let It II be clearly Ull that Ihal In the parlance ot of modern the word ord Catholic stood steed for tor medieval val and therefore usage meant t then en Bid this thu wem to well for tor the spirituality 11 lit of the Ih Were Wre the middle a aea i by br a n high ton lune of true spirituality or were r they generally characterized characterised by a II or of f gross ro s superstition kl o of A generally low lu moral noral tune tone nbc of ut craw crass Ignorance inorante I I pervading all alla I lId nd a horribly corrupt and un on condition The Th aoa tern tied had been tried under the fa and weighed In the th of ot anti and it had been found hopel I wanting Wai Wu Its re rt a hopeful omen fur till the all allty ty Wo ef the U e future Fur Kor or lil tots own Oln part I art he hp li to ta AI be able to say lay that the one feature In so 80 o much that on Int one d ilora was ti the md nd pul able 1 of m flo nut t a I few ft J l f cn tl tM the most moat of ot this thin Itt ut w a ve movement Rut But ThI the Ihl mon man an lIaised way away the Ih r mined Load and In hi that nry with the present condition of or th Ih tho of oC nl nJ of ut iro tre Greek Grik church him t rr r rec re no so 1 1 promise of r f spirit UK I ir I 1 r Fi g a I UI the t f pr ml h better tf Whet h r iroy 1 c d the hoe cun n dl t n i o f liet MU i ii I fl Hl b th I U gh be hI wm was not itt It ill III ii Pu RUM that It II wa i 1 i justified Ju of ot iii He lit U would not hot peak nf lit other OUI lanU of which Wl odge Mg g an nie me e to 10 i p Hut Jut Hutra ra rather of ot hlen were within the hoe of or them all an anI l with lIh the tbell thel these l before fare their eyes tyes hr hI rould only w saY III V that th t he ll that thoM he felt elt entitled to Blye an unqualified affirmative answer lie He that he hoe could be assured that the assertion so often oCUm made nv hi thOse th H who ought to know and be lie Ie beard ht rd It wherever ho went that tho the force of ot Nonconformity had to large silent Pent and that a Dissent lIt was tody a political thian n ot was Va d destItute of any sufficient foundation i iThe The These tram toni a n prominent II evangelical dignitary w were re not die dis disputed ted by b other oilier r eminent t clergymen who 8 oil 1 the tho conference Rev Hov Canon ld i however took up the tho sub J jet je ct t of at higher criticism lIe He thought that the school chool of ot religious thought wu Vu making a mistake take III In leav leaving ing 1111 ii alone the controversy ry pro provoked yoked by the arguments lIil condo atom alone of ot Us He 11 wild saul there item two of ot hIher critIcism n one however to the tho th mind mimI left leU leUven every ven doctrine of ot th hoe faith alth but th the other sought nought to shAke hk the tho th entire foundation oun of CIt our faith Itt Jt It work WAI wu that of ot lan 11 n nr 11 i He lie th there r wan ivos nothing more mol foolish h than Ih n to try and silence doubt doubts they th oulI not satisfy anti and they should to be prepare to admit that m had load modified their on many nones pointe He lie II sold Pith tho thou dismay and 0 nIl felt feit by the church when the theory of ur evolution waa volt put forth by hy Darwin had away unity had ha l changed It its standpoint and more to too new lIew environ environment ment nf of I thought He lIe declared It that evolution Will its generally agreed was waa W I a worthier more rational and more truly trul philosophical visit vIew of divine will than that advocated by y a Po special crea oron creation tion Uon HP un thought It was wall tho thin duty dut or of orthe orthe the school to recognize the of or mod rn thought absolute Other speakers I referred to the hoe lm lot portative 1 of ot modern J dealing with such questions as the tho no n nIng Ing of at God Cod the theories concerning the creation creat Ion thor the Inspiration Of ot the tho the fall rail and redemption of at man the possibility of ot miracles and last anil of ot all as all affecting all the tho personality divinity anti eternal au an authority of 01 Jesus Jeans Christ upon nil all iou their hopes or f a n resurrection of at the ito body Lolly or of ot a future life lito absolutely de ele depended Archdeacon Taylor said It If they got rid nil of ot and anil 1 considered 1 as tables fables the tim creation the toll fall the hoe promise the th Hood and the tho erection of It the UIA Tower TOlor of ot they tiley the got rid of oC Christianity It ittel tel becaUse Jesus Christ and St Sl Paul both buth tonight taught that lint Christianity rested res led upon the ha th foundation of oC historic fact sot set forth In lit the tho cathy Chapters of ot Genesis GeMMill Tho The miraculous facts of ot tho the Old Oid Tee Tes Testament tomcat referred to by b our Lord In Inmany Inmany Inmany many places as facts and Important lessons were based th eon The Tue discussions at ot this Evangelical conference are a n fair sample of or what Is going on In other branches of ot modern religion The great trouble la is that hint the tho Is 18 with them item a n matter of ot Intel Intellectual speculation The questions lOcations In Involved Involved arc Arl open and undecided Their are ever looming learning but loot never able to como come to a n knowledge of at atthe the truth They are all nil upon n a yea sea of ot uncertainty Thoro There Is no definite au nu authority to decide their differences De le Depending pending upon tho the dead letter of o ancient scripture thoy they disagree among them thorn themselves selves delves nit ON to Its meaning and without th the f voice olce of or revelation or the GuIdance iC or Inspiration or any recognized head bead and end of o controversy they have la e to offer afTer to the man unan on the street or or to tonny toor any or Inquiring Or doubtful mind noth oath nothing nothIng ing log but ut mere m re opinion and beliefs that t change with the development of ot science and the hoe deduction of ot logical thought Not until the world accepts the doe doc doctrine trine and the fact of ot present revelation wilt will the that stand In the tho way of at the worlds evangelization be effectually removed |