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PROGRESS IN 1 That the woiTd grows I centuries we would all lik< ation looks upon its own disappoint and discourage is Hagrant and noisy and ways recognize the more ( better things that come lit sentiments and ideals of b< The moral history of the a hue subject for study ar mist would find some thir dark and hopeless views, tinned to be a root of all k office, high and low; conpie in all manner of comb the rich and pretentious; respect for the Sabbath; ity and the seclusion and denial of the authority of of the Bible as a supernati will and love. One could logue of evils that are com, times .the VPrtr ...? ? VIJ iv/iiuviaiiun society are assaulted, anc spairing. But there is another ar back over the moral life o tainly some forms of evil conscience of the people h cated, and informed, and been created and expresse The duel, for example, < ment of God, and then an satisfaction for an injury c prevalent throughout the tury. Men of the highest duellists; Hamilton and C drew Jackson and Benton. Old Slid vniln rr lorrioln*/.? >?.giaiaiuia insults and settle private < sword or pistol. But Ion interpreted to rule that a li that principal and second stringent laws in all the I and educated opinion, anc exterminated. The lottery had very g from the earliest settleme State government used it. pitals erected, roads consl and all manner of small promoted by the lottery, neoole ramp tr? tlm* gambling under fair pret< structive. The State con: legislatures from legalizing participation is a crime ag ing of the body politic. Gambling, the gaming fc erty, once common, somel consented to, is now univer ly the common law did not THE PRESBYTERL 3UBLIC MORALS. >etter as it moves down the ; to believe. As each genertimes there seems much to Evil is ever present, and persistent. We do not aljuiet and modest advance of ce silent tides and affect the dies of people, people of America would he id a story book. The pessi iw invwuidgc 111111 111 HIS The love of money has coninds of evil. Graft in public spiracy to defraud the peoinations; wickedness among the widespread decline in the decay in family sancthappiness of the home; the God's law and the rejection ural revelation of the divine I readily make a long cata111011 and threatening. Sonies of moral order in human 1 we grow fearful and deid brighter side. Looking f the American people, cerhave been shaken off. The as in some things been edugenexal public opinion has d firmly in law. ance an appeal to the judgattempt to secure personal >utside of the law, was very land through the last censtanding in public life were lay and Randolph and AnCongressmen, naval officers, . editors thought to avenge disputes by taking life with g ago the common law was fe so taken was murder, and s were alike guilty. Most States have both expressed 1 duelling has been utterly eneral use for many years, nt of the country. The Colleges were founded, hostructed and churches built, and loc?l enterprises were Hut the conscience of the t was robbery, a species of jnse, demoralizing and de illiniums now proniDtt the the lottery in any form, and ainst the order and wellbe>r money or any other prop.imes public, and generally sally disapproved. Formerinterfere with gambling so \N OF THE SOUTH. long as there was no fraud, all gaming for money or an is vigorously prosecuted ai Profanity, and all blasj common is now an offence good, is an indictable misd< public sentiment, and in la from use, certainly anion) people. Out of this steadily risir science has come the greal land for the utter destruet Just as surely as duelling a have become unlawful and exterminated. The Church the people, Church memb tiati character is strenghi growing firm and forceful, joyed by all the people. THE SOCIAL MISSIC The emphasis placed b; they call "the social missic misconception of the prima primary end is witnessing of Christ. By her organiz; 11 _ ^ i ? ? i ne irum, oy Her pure and of the ordinances intruste edification of her members ness of her testimony, she where and to offer Him to she is making a magnificen to mankind's social interes be her first aim or thougl faith transforms the indiv dividual it affects also the in the mass, and brings at redemption," but this "soc incident to the faith. Faith nipnt wliirVi Vi#? 1-ioe ?-1,? <>w *iuo niauv. terment of humanity is m suits coming from, the fait It is this obscuring of tl and this undue elevation ol of society that is causing s the church, to declare tha denounce her because in so of herself a great benevoh that her end is the product for men, then in many cas unhappily pulls the churcl man organizations and ca their standards. The idea, ism. It seems to say, so much'civic and social resu the price; so, pay the price scheme of grace is turned i insurance ami men are pers will pay.. The projection o of humanity does not relie to the individual. This misconception opet accept it, to all manned of u ^ " ' v ' ? . t, jLit, _ October 20, 1909. But now the laws prohibit y other profit, and gambling id punished. jhcnious speech once very against law and the public ?meanor. is under the ban of rge degree has been driven j decent and respectable power of the public cont movement throughout the ion of the drinking saloon, nd the lottery and gambling criminal, will the saloon be i and the Bible are teaching ership is increasing, Christening, Christian manhood and the good fruits are en>N OF THE CHURCH. y many people upon what >n of the church" leads to a iry end of the church. This She is to tell the world ition, by her faithfulness to consecrated life, by the use d to her as means for the and for the greatness, clcaris to hold up Christ everyi dying men. In doing this it and effective contribution ts, but the latter are not to , TU- - r .1. i iic power 01 personal idual, and through the inaggregation of individuals >out what some call "social rial redemption" is only an grasps Christ, in the atoneIt sees only him. The beterelv one of the happy reh. le great purpose of religion t the idea of the betterment >o many to speak lightly of t she is failing, or even to me cases sue is not making ince society. If it be true ion of a better environment es she is failing. The idea 1 down to the level of huuses her to be judged by too, savors of commercialmuch religion produces so Its. The results are worth ; be religious. The whole nto a species of endowment .uaded to believe because it f this upon the larger plane :ve it of its evil as applied is the door to those, who mvarranted relations on the