Limit their horizon to this life, let penury, sickness, and sorrow
change the man to a wolf, let him know no God and Father Who hears his
cry, no Saviour to help, no brother to bind up his wounds, let there be
on the one side wealth and luxury and wanton waste, and on the other
side poverty, misery, and despair, and there will be, as there has been,
a cry for blood. We wonder why men pass by the Church to found clubs
and brotherhoods and orders. They will have them, and they ought to
have them, until the Church is in its Divine love what its Founder
designed it to be--the brotherhood in Christ of the children of our God
and Father. What the world needs to-day is not alms, not hospitals, not
homes of mercy alone. It needs the spirit and the power of the love of
Christ. It needs the voice, the ear, the hand, and the heart of Christ
seen in and working in His children. No powers of government, no
/prestige/ of social position, no prerogatives of Churchly authority can
meet the issues of this hour; we have waited already too long.
Brotherhood men will have, and it will be the brotherhood of the
commune, or brotherhood in Christ as the children of our God and Father.
Infidelity answers no questions, heals no wounds, fulfils no hopes. The
Gospel will do, is doing, to-day what it has done through all the ages:
leading men out of sin and darkness and despair to the liberty of sons
of God.


In a day of division and unrest there will be many questions which
perplex earnest souls. Some will dwell on the subjective side of the
faith, others will think most of its manifestations in the life. These
questions will affect organization for Christian work, public worship,
and find expression in the ritual of the Church. There is no room for
differences if Christ be first, Christ be last, and Christ in
everything. The ritual of the Church must be the expression of her