Show POOR CHURCHES 1 r J al i ai over a conof 0 o f arany sects tir Q ia beig Os c ajr dh jn they nr kept on a hay diet and can 1 diio keople arc f overtaxed over taxed to feed even on liar for the first timo in the history of christianity representatives af pf churches upon the same platform with swo f arid unitarians iu the effort to promote a common christianity said rev R heber newton m the anthon memorial in new pity lately Su chape in as vill probably result from this chirck congress is not likely to bring alic millennium too precipitately hu nian nature will continue about what it now is for some time to come and ex sting organizations will not buta real step has bean taken in the d of christian unity such 1 as was held last week would not have been possible in peace and charity a generation or perhaps a decade ago dr how ard crosby haa stood alongside af faglier grafton and preston poi ter 04 Yale College has stood alongside afi ja mea freeman clarke each out his own mind each recognizing in the other of the ra child odthe same heavenly father Thae vilot our present divided Christiani tare manifold and pal tent the economic waste of di vision sis becoming an unjustifiable burden upon society population in industry revolutions gp irigon and it is n duty pressed upon 1 civilization to economize all non producing functions they are the highest funo irons the outcry of labor against them is stupid and unreasonable so long osithe proper relation be producing band non ard classes is observed every man whose work calls him to a 1 non producing employment is ie essl ls sl too rapidly and as a result a heedless and unwarrantable burden misplace is place on productive labor which supports the lawyer teacher apri wo more men turned iram non producers to beca useve need a vastly larger production of for better distri anlin at ilire is a largo development the bet civilize timi today to day would beto nip the budding hopes of a host of preacher and doctors andr lawyers and to ib be professional workers into tasks tive lab or jhc thc world would man radons briefs prescriptions paint ing and poems and they themselves bould be better race wilbe bet croff set the example by consid its responsibility in ministers and of fax the wealth of the country which ildia tributes tri buted with would only suffice to give each person an income of fitly cents a y inthe faco of the church which ato ireae over peo shores in tho future the fol lyof our american ilya england v asage you bec eec thread f ouri churches and full of all aro r gling to exist they all adl be run into me strong church crowded full of people really buin ister alie which often leave hirn poorer than before in the presence of such a task as confronts our christianity the divisions of protestantism form nothing leei than a crime the ministry ii stunted by YOU cannot horse put you wan tc trot fast or to pull heavy loads you cannot keep him upon a hay bieti our ministers are on a hay diet the average parson can scarcely find potatoes for his pot much lesa books foghis for his shelves hasp juicy ho studied in thab theological seminary cheng over the cud of old knowledge and rehashes early theological tiong we expect a minister of d large church to preach twice on have to say cadi time to visit hundreds of camilie fa milie and to come in agabi soon upon each household to apol after and afflicted and or church charities to bainter i viewed by liny body at any andriany subject to correspond with p caplo coplo from all quart cra upon all en he ihas else toyo und aay you ministers have nothing to dd aou stand up or twice on sunday and talk for a little while and then take it easy until the next sunday it is the mental poverty of underpaid and overworked men which blocks the natural path of progress of the christian by coming to conr possession sound creeds and faith might be built up the multiplication of tiona each gathering around some special dogma or institution keep false ideals of before the people the baptist minister encourages cou rages men to become good baptists firki and after that goad christians is equals ly true of bur own church if ahe apostolic succession is tho only con of a truly organized church of it there is no organized christianity then of necessity the man who thinks this will say it a gibat deal more than he will eay some other thine such as truth justice and charily and his hearers will come too it of prime importance to be churchmen and ithan ra oua energy left will turn it into becoming goo d interposed between the souls of christian people and the true ideals of the baptist the episcopalian the presbyterian methodist who lock to dogmatic theology as union commit amazi ngi folly neither is unity of worship practicable because worship must express the character 1 and culture of tho worshipper wor shipper I 1 have been in a negip revival meeting when the brethren 1 were having chappy time was to rue a mockery or worship from which I 1 quickly retired to find a more real worship as I 1 look lip from the dark streets of the city e silent stars I 1 had no right to judge them I 1 simply left cheri to their own form thankful that I 1 did not have to go to meeting with these dusky fellow christians if we wait for any christain reunion until tho time whence shall all feel like worship ping in the same way awe must wait for the time shall sing one song unity of methods in church life and work 13 impracticable what unity then is possible what wo want is not more creeds matac of dog left behind our american episcopal church took a step in the right direction at its organization after alic revolution by omitting the athanasian creed and it seriously contemplated the omission of the niccie creed even the apostles creed is too large an amplification to afford a basis of ecclesiastical unity few men can read even this comparatively simple creed straight through without qualifying alie language if wo are to have any creed at all then as a basis of reunion it must be some simpler statement of tho essential faith which is continued in una creed in form the creed of protestantism must be an 0 the spiritual truths leaving absolute free dom interprets tian af them and in ahe mental so lution bathe bf the great problems of life and nolting only the affirmation of the faith in god in the eife to tcp me and in the spiritual mastership master snip of Jesus Christ let us all cease atho unprofitable task of thour opinions while the christian churche shave not realized realf zed the gigantic task be th eui ih tho of society they have biad leisure foe intestine elf but when flioy confront ithe deal upon the field of battle they cense to be baptists and l anil become |