| Show OP OJ ItS He Joseph II If of Greenwich Ct Is reported to have ha ve given Sl en voice oleo to the following lamentations The rho church today confesses with sorrow BOrrow and shame the alienation of the toilers The common are with difficulty persuaded to enter places of ot Vor Many of the most ing In and Intelligent among tho laboring cl es stand today toda outside outRide the church KU II luiis of her sincerity discredit discreditIng Ing th till Illey of or her h lj and re refuting roo o the Invitations to in work antI worship Now 0 Hare Bays the Herald that hill I the trouble has hn boon clearly diagnosed who will wll prescribe for Its cure oure Those who risk this question seriously l er what the church was at n It n power what the churches chur are arc to today day The Th members of the primitive h oro taught to meet m et regularly and often orten not Indeed to have their ears cars tI with Ith vain eloquence or their vanity by odious o lous reflections on nil 1111 the th world outside their own On circle They Th met tn t to do honing ge to the Cruel Kin and to bear the tho truth church first of all maintain ca NI Its character as us a n divine In through Its ministers who proved their mission an nil of the Founder Its Influence was of an nn practical nature merging mankind Into one doln away awa with cv e etry try ry font of yet ot combining U of at nil It 1 abolished the theold theold old d te und and yet ot preserved a 1 most brotherhood It ended the tho mys ms teries terl l of secret pt cret societies yet et Im Imp p U i n II knowledge hidden to the world It eliminated national bound M f yet et gathered all Us Its followers Into on one It enlarged the Idea of a n family by proclaiming a n universal al it lifted the clave to the spiritual level of the tho muter master and laid I the foundation toi to the tho true of woman It entered Into every enry rc of life lite spreading over oer all the light USh of ot its origin It 1 truth and ennobled ennoble patriotism null and Kindled anew an oW the flames of That Thill was the nason nl son of or it II wonderful success Sll What of a n practical nature arc the Churches of ot today toda do doIng Ins Ing Does Docs the listening lI to a n modern sermon generally make men and wo women women men better Does DONI the preaching stem litem the awful tide of drunkenness suicides murder wars and ond kindred evils Does Docs It Il belter the conditions of at laborers socially economically and spir spiritually Do the churches take the part of o the oppressed the ty t 4 I rants Tho weak weale against the tr I Has not nearly every stop step forward on the ho road to liberty lIbert and betterment bott rm nt u human been opposed by ono wing or the other of the tho church plo pia If It ad what wonder It the tho toilers are alienated the people with arc persuaded to t outer places II aces of worship They rhey willing enough to Join labor unions and that promise to take cognizance of ot their conditions and even socialistic cooperative and tic societies hut but they cnn can eo no practical utility In a church organization that disclaims divine power and author authorIty a thor Ity and ond falls to point the time as nit a a clock that has hag stopped on account nt of the tho accumulated dust The nature of tho Itle the tho cure But It Is not to t d dby by human 81 The world needs now as ever eer the tho Physician Ih who alone cnn can apply the true remedy renie lY |
