Campbell Institute Bulletin, Vol. 14

Download or read book Campbell Institute Bulletin, Vol. 14 written by Washington Gladden and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Campbell Institute Bulletin, Vol. 14: October, 1917; America and Her Allies The Institute is advertised by its loving friends. At the state convention in Illinois the Christian Standard, containing the Institute membership list of 1915, was in every pew. This produced no other sensation than a conception of the solid character of our membership. During the convention three men sought membership and since the convention two more have applied. There is every reason to believe that this year will be the greatest year we have ever had for membership gains. Our only precaution should be that we secure men who sympathize with the aims and purposes of the organization. The world has never had such a demand for constructive scholarship as now. Already English writers are offering their suggestions with regard to the reconstruction of the world after the war. Those who read Mr. Hill's page in The Bulletin this month will realize the nature of the problem. This reconstruction must go on not only in the field of international politics and economics, but in almost every phase of human life. Can we doubt that religion is to undergo change, or that the church will need to change its methods quite radically? Our difficulty is that so many men continue to speak a message after its usefulness has ceased. Few are preaching a belated pacificism which was only useful when the world was at peace. Can we doubt that some will breathe out a war-like spirit after peace is declared? The note after the war will be conciliation. For the religious man. there will be a peculiar opportunity to preach the message of Christian Union. The war will bring a new emphasis on the philanthropic service to be rendered by the church. The new seriousness coming into the world ought to enable the preacher to strike the deeper notes in his message. After reading the stimulating article by C. J. Armstrong in this issue on the Confessional, we had the feeling that protestant ministers needed some guidance in performing this service. The Episcopalian rectors of the high church persuasion now have a manual adapted from Romanism. This might contain some help but not a great deal. Whether the minister wants to be or not, he becomes father confessor to a great many people. It is in the confessional that religion is directly applied to life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.