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WITH YOU? the world would center on social service. We all read that book avidly. We thought it might contain the answer to the ques tion. But it did not. It left us cold. For there is but one question, and on it all the power of the church with us rests. Is there an eternal life? And there is but one answer by which the church can hold us—yes! All the social service in the world will not satisfy this essential and universal hunger of the soul. All the stren uousness in modern life could not keep us from packing the church where that answer was found. Modern science has tried to make skep tics of us. It rests with the churches to show us how modern science is only another manifestation of the unspeakable wonders of God. It rests with the churches to keep our souls open to the flow of the cosmic soul that controls the universe, A social center will never make a church. A business man will never make a preacher. And the churches will never die. We need them as we need nothing else in life; just the old-fashioned church with the singing and the minister, but with a sermon that makes our modern eyes see God.— The Delineator. OBSCURED teaching and great incidents should be ever and again recalled to the minds of Chris- tains. The Puritans of Cromwell’s time were wont to call it “the Blessed Refor mation,” and they had reason enough for so doing. Because Qf the tragic situation in Europe it will be more difficult to cele brate if properly than it otherwise would have been. But William the Second should not, with all the other evil he has done, prejudice by his course the minds of men against his great countryman. The clouds which hang heavy cannot obscure the mighty mountain bulk of- Luther .—Record of Christian Work.
TA O YOU go to church regularly, or are you like the rest of us—careful about the children’s getting off to Sunday-school, and careless about attending church your self, except on Easter Sunday? What’s the matter with us men and women today? Our own parents were churchgoing folk, but we stay at home to read the Sunday paper, to prepare the Sun day dinner, or to play golf. We say that our life is so much more strenuous than that of a generation ago that we need Sun day for a complete rest day. But'Is that true? When you think it over, who worked harder, or longer hours or more unremit tingly than our parents? As a matter of fact, did not they work harder and have fewer easy pleasures than we? And they went to church regularly. The churches are behind the times, we say. The sermons are stupid; the clergy men, men who would be failure? in any' competitive walk in life. The modern church, we say, should be a social center, and the minister a good business man. Then, we say, we would go to church. But would we? A distinguished author in a distinguished book, a year or so ago, tried to prove that the coming religion of CANNOT BE T HE Presbyterian General Assembly appointed a committee for the due cel ebration of the Four Hundredth Anniver sary of the Opening of the Reformation. This committee calls upon pastors to make preparation for the presentation of the sub ject to their people, and offers for distri bution lists of topics for lectures and, of books. One of these, Boehmer’s “Life of Luther,” is offered for sale at twenty-five cents at the depositaries of the Presby terian Board of Publication. Human society owes more to the Reformation than to any other episode in history since the Birth of Christ—clericals and ritualists to the contrary notwithstanding. Its great
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