TO RE-CREATE THE WORLD.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 9

TO RE-CREATE THE WORLD.

>' MISSION OF THE CHUECH. "What is the mission of tho Christian Church P This question has been asked time and again and replied to as often by theological leaders.. • Dr. Ingram, Bishop of London, answers'tho query bystating that the mission of,-the. Church is no loss thaii to' re-crcato the world. In his address before the Church Congfoss recently ho dealt with the social revolution created in the early Church, because tho early Christians believed that God was ; all in all. . But the tragedy of the Christian Church was that, after so splendid it start, it had not done more. "Think" over somo of the things still confronting us. like grinning .spectres, after two.thousand years of Christianity," Dr. Ingram proceeded. "So little has the doctrine of brotherhood between man and man been learnt that what is called euphemistically 'industrial unrest' is the special, feature of tho present day, and so little . has tho promised peace on earth yet been accomplished that Europe increasingly resembles an armed camp. Another hideous, grinning spectre is the 'White Slave Traffic,' end tho : extraordinary difficulty, of rousing even Christian public opinion to understand its powers, its ramifications, and its heartless cruelly. "What," ho.continued, "can redressths effects of individualism run mad? What can prevent, tho British buttoning up of pockets with the cry of' my land, my motor, my rights? Nothing but , the Christian doctrine ;of stewardship really applied. 'To aro liot your own, yo aro bought with a prico. What familiar words, and yet how revolutionary! Livo up to them, and we are half-way to the millennium j without them we-havo.not even started for it. :. . . TJp,. then, aud sisters, and without dtlay draw out of tho Church tho powor thnt yet can recreate tho world." ' ''