Show Tim TIlE THEa AGH a or OP TilE Tim HAS liAS SJ PJ U. U Back In th tine the days iIa's written n o of by Jack London In hi his Before Adam or In the e essentially better Story Y c ef cf efAh Al Ah h by Stanley Stanle Waterloo It may have ha been possible for or a 0 man main to win converts h by whacking them 11 ocr oer th the tite head end with an on axe and politely asking th them m as ns they In lay helpless and Imperiled on the tho ground whether o r or not nol they agreed with him hUn anti and to 10 win in adherents to o oil ills il cn cause use h by t that hat process But Dut the day lay has Inns passed Now If It you want a n. man to 10 stand t with you OU throng h thick anti and thin you OU have p to convince him that you nr ar right You have hav to 10 win him with tho the ono one ar which will vill hold You have to capture hl his Intelligence Church people have havo been hen working a good man nan years ears Some of oC their organizations have havo grown Irown arf aind some Mme havo have not It Is curious to note that thal those proc proc on the theory that the they would have to win the renter If It they wanted to save sa the souls havo have been most me- me I ue It Is not of oC record that Pere Marquette farqu tle o or Bishop Asbury or Alexander Campbell Camphell carried an ax axe Each Ench had a a. a gospel which seemed to him necessity necessary c cf f acceptance But they did not menace the lives JIves of oC pc po oe who wanted to be shown Tho They Thoy went up anti and down th the earth seeking whom they might convert And the tine fields field they planted have been hearing bearing magnificent fruit eve er ever since Of all organizations a n. Christian nn church should speak kindly Some little hint In support of or this dictum ml be gleaned from rom the th following report printed In a n Ne New Nev NewYork York ork paper The Tho lack of ot general Interest taken taken In the Sunday Sunda schools schoola throughout the country countr I Is a subject or of sorrow sorro and regret to man many pastors and to the few ew who are active workers In that branch o of church work Figures recently appearing In a newspaper Item Hem showing the percentage of Increase among amonS' various arlous religious bodies during th the fifteen years ears from rom 1890 to 1905 1105 were as follows Catholic 74 14 per cent Episcopal 52 Lutheran 49 Methodist 40 Congregational 35 36 Baptist 33 The Mormons are sale said to have havA Increased ed during the same period to tho the amazing rate of per cent and the reason advanced is that tha they Y have t th bPI SUndaY hool In 11 the country Now there Is no use use launching Invective against tho the Catholics or the Mo Mormons which mons-which which two seem to make mak tho the best showing in the tho reported advance If Christian workers want to win in adherents th they y would bett better r employ their energies in persuasion If persuasion If the they are right Anger Ange will only repel A big bit broad Christianity which convinces convinces con con- vinces a man of his need ned which offers him what th the advocate b believes Jle es In hl his own soul Is Js tho the best way to supply th that need an assurance that the advocate I Is these thee sincere these are aro the credentials the tha title deeds to Mankind Is none too good and none nono too happy Somewhere in the human heart I is Implanted a sense o or of groping for or the things that are unseen It I Is the province o of the churches to make worth while what lies es bc beyond the tho thet t veil ll But Dut In the name of oC Him who ho ate with s sAND AND SAVED THEM THEM let let us not be he trained to f r i 1 uncomfortable blo If W we should In Heaven an any of or any church other than our own |