impulse is to continue in this land, the church of Christ--Home
Missions--must answer.

We can not fail, also, to recognize the significance, for national
righteousness of the urgent demand of to-day that business, social
conditions and politics shall conform to an ethical standard.

This eager effort toward a standard of social righteousness is
not regarded by people generally as having its source and power from
within the church, though we of the church know that the impulse which
gave birth to this movement and the ideals and standards sustaining it
are the product of the church of Christianity. More and more, organized
Christianity is realizing its obligations along these lines and is seeking
to render the fullest social service. Emile de Laveleye, the Belgian
economist, says, "If Christianity were taught and understood conformably
to the spirit of its founder, the existing social organism could not last
a day."

A source of power necessary to the effectiveness of missionary
service is found in organization.

In all lines of human activity the eager effort to-day is toward
efficiency through highly developed organization. This is shown in the
realm of philanthropy in the great Sage and Rockefeller foundations,
and in the splendidly equipped charitable societies and multitudes
of others.

In the business world the Standard Oil Company, the United States
Steel Company and the Ford Automobile Company are conspicuous examples.
The past ten years has also witnessed combinations of religious and