Show WOULD INDICTED Tune The question why the modern church churches churchS es ea S of ot tho thin world are ara nr not a vital lal moral morat force foice In society t clety will not down Those optimistically Inclined endeavor to cx ex explain plain Phalli away some somo of the tho most trouble troublesome some come fact but without a great grent Mol deal of ot The Lender has hac recently revived Interest In the subject Accord lag Ins to that Journal the entice O USO Is to bo be found lu In tho rho taut that the church him Una hll ceased cell ed to lo be a 11 church where whore Hie the people may come coma for f r worship and nd receive tho the Influence Into their souls Tho rho church wa W n e lire are told toil has hap become a I social nodal center n 1 lectureship a n I school chool n II college COllego collegen u n 1 society a 11 place pInce of ot an urea meat a 1 bazar a I library nn an Institution of philanthropy n nursery a 1 kinder kindergarten kindergarten garten a 1 soup kitchen I an nn eMployment bur bureau au or n a caucus It has lias abandoned lilt Ito tn own peculiar Held neld anti and ent rod other feldo tor for which It Is la wholly unfitted unfilled The result is a meet moitt mo l deplorAble According Ac Ao According cording to tu the Journal quoted Vo We witness today loday the tho nt of ot one olle af after ler another of tho the 1110 virtues until our lire are the tho rn ra tt preach of ot the world I orld orid our legislatures state crate ami tutu corrupt almost be tc beyond yond belief In lit JI fact wo we are aro new ne neseeM K of or tabs public degeneracy which I should appall us u uJ From J thIs dark of public morals the writer turns fires to the tha social aspect ot of 0 Ills Hit verdict Is 18 isTine Tine Tho world arll has line gone niad the object of ot all work Is III to pet get money mone for ph the tho cars alai steamboats steamboat are jimmied Jammed 1 with do I seeking excitement and lu In thin tho summer tho the churches lire are cIO once ont for tOI weeks now for tor months month oneo I to Rive give the minister n a rest rost now to give for tor rha the p people 1110 an nn opportunity pleasure Thought U is given alone to physical gratification until all nil moral sense cease U It I paralyzed and the one dedin deello d In Is to l keep keen up UI with tile the of at revelers headed by thi Newport group of ot the tha where we ve have the tho exhibition beat best lit U ocl the mo most mORt t highly cultured the tie but hest fed fell and boot best dressed anti wealthiest t fruit qt 1 our national life lito and oro forced to ony of ot It II that with nil all these thee envied not In the worst slums of ot a 1 grent great city nor yet Inthe In tho the deepest wilds of or savage Africa Is hero thero to be found greater debasement ment of ot Erman life or more unparalleled de do debauchery hul of ot morals w This Is III n a 1 terrible verdict Hut But we wo arc aro also ao told tol l ot of tho the caUse causa ot of this condition On this point the writer ays And you 11 ministers are responsible for this absence of ot soul poul rife life You Yeu have soul your divine birthright ht for tor n a mess mesa messof of pottage You ou Oll have hac not stuck to your our calling you OU run after litter Ovary every 60 scheme of ot 1 sa hug tho the world orld by bt tint Hat or by vote rote ole or by purchase or by 11 organization or by Institution when there thero I Is III no other name under wider heaven by b which the world can be saved oared ex except except IX Christ Jesus anti and It If you do hOt not believe bellove bello that what are you OU doing In tho the Christi ministry You mow know Un ten times as RS much about the tho Bible DIble as the tho did but you do 10 tint not know as 18 much BIble you ou know ell all nl the tho theories s of prayer but you oU do not pray proy You ort ore the victims of ot every fad you ou hind luul rather quote Bro Browning than Jesus Christ you hind had rather lecture on tho tic North Pole than to lo preach the gospel yo you od had rather write n 11 popular po novel than u sermon you Ou ride tide your hobbles hobbies you get l up excursions you glen entertainments you ou take lake up nn an agency k fI r C or run ron a n I hotel hotal anything everything ex ox except eXcept 10 to your our ening And Arid Hi Christian church Ig la being starved to tn death by Its It friends limed alel end and nil weakened weA ned title this once onet o regal figure stands with outstretched bends pitifully the tha privilege to live Once Onee now d de ono once now once loved and now and ra to The Tho wont of ot all this la Is that hat It li Is true And liter la Is no other remedy tor for It then a n mIghty revival through DIvino nuncy nl nr such nn had hu ut lit Interval Intervale In the tho history of men imin n place IIa and given glen to all ell human a s new direction There Ther Ic is tin an miner nth remedy than Ihan thin taming coming among the dead bone lIon of the II spirit of prophesy that list slope alone can un illI bring order out of or chaos and kin hint kindl dl di the llam latno of Ufa lit If In III lie III midst of or I uth And Amt this thU work la Is I Using done clone pv st fon en n now through the proclamation of the Gospel It 11 IN Is encouraging to Lo know that there ron ran b be no doubt Il as an to the tha lintel triumph or of m over oyer error orear right over oer wrong rood good ovi r evil 11 th the appear r t tray may InQ be at ilL p raw tit Christ will ul be b the l heed head of the nations means of ot the lie world The che waves may KM rise anti Ind tall fall but tV evs y new wave weve will roll on 01 a little further than th n the previous To 10 the he rye pre of faith the re is redemption I of ct t the tit world warhol Is aa as 1 certain o ns as n asIt If It It w were rO already thready d The Theold out old may irwy have to be bo swept wept out nut no nl lib Iud cad c vendors W driven front troll the he seared but jilt Ilia work dt or will go on oat n until hall th the ha shouts of I are ore no long bug longer bugor or er but Instead the glad |