| Show FOR REFORM rev bey charles martyn a presbyterian minister in chicago has had recently bad an idea concerning the work of the christian church in the present age he exert expresses sees it according toan to an exchange ahw begin as christ did with the body free baths before free bibles soap before tracts bread before prayer meet ings A hungry man is not a fit candidate for grace make the church an institution i ution of all why should it not rescue from poverty from ignorance from coarseness as preparatory 0 to o ana and significant of sp spiritual ritual salvation wry good the christian religion was without doubt intended to help elevate and save iran tran kind from every evil moral spiritual social and physical the minister mi 8 of christ were intended to be the instruments in the hands bands of the almighty to effect this great and wonderful salvation but to do this at least three things are requisite first that the ministers themselves are what they ought to be saved in all these regards and secondly that they have the true means of salvation at their command not high sounding bunding Jun ding theories and flowery figures of speech but the gospel of jesus christ with the divine authority so ao it and thirdly that they are willing to consecrate their live snot for the obtaining of so many thousand shousan d dollars a year but for the salvation of their fellow men the christian ministers shoula 60 t hope to save the world before their own salvation has been effected |
