Papers & Essays for Churchmen; Being a Series of Studies on Topics Made Timely by Current Events (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... WANTED, AN AMERICAN SUNDAY ..". where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." // Corinthians 3:17. It has come to be a commonplace to speak of changes that the ending of the War will bring. All know we will be living in a new age, in a changed world. This change, all agree, will affect both men and manners, all society and all our institutions. Among these, none will be more thoroughly remoulded than the Christian Church. Other problems are more often referred to in current discussion. New light--some think as of a lamp, some of a torch--will be cast on some weighty problems; the Negro Problem, the Labor Problem, the Social Evil, the Divorce Evil, the Temperance Cause, the Suffrage Issue. But I am wondering: What of the Church? And of phases of this last problem, I have one in mind particularly: What of that ancient institution which has played the major part for centuries in making the routine or weekly services both necessary and convenient? As a question, this is old in point of time; but it is new in form at present. It is startling to review what havoc the War has been working in this case especially; what it has done, and is now doing, to practices of Sunday Observance. Just now many things are forcing that so ancient institution to a new revaluation. The whole question of its future is 'jne of most importance to many who think least about it. It is intimately connected with the ordering of all men's daily lives. In the present stage, of such rapid transition, it is one not half sufficiently discussed. That is, it is not often enough discussed sanely, nor by the right people. I believe the time has come for a new kind of frank consideration. A straw, showing how the wind blows, has been the discussion, in this city, the past...