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Show THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. Secular Religion a Feature of Present Day, Says Professor. The world can no longer bo considered consid-ered as a sphere of human life, sepa rate from or antagonistic to the church. Too much lollglon has gotten got-ten out of the church Into the world to allow us to think of all the good being in the church, and ot the world aB being nothing but evil. Religion Is taking on secular, in distinction from exclusively ecclesiastical, forms of expression. Thoro Is coming to be a world church, having a religious consciousness to which nothing that is common to man is foreign, and In a sacrificial service for all the world. We have buildcd better than wo know. Our philanthropies and reforms re-forms have sanctified the secular, have manifolded our mluisterles. The religious valuation of the single soul, sanctity of the ono life, worth of the person above things, is forcing broth-eibood broth-eibood upon bublness, and making It i ho corollary to the pioposltlon of tho 'athcrhood of God. Tho doctrlno of he kingdom, which is "righteousness, peace and Joy," is being translated into politics, civics, law and diplomacy. diplo-macy. Prof. Graham Taylor, Chicago. |