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Christ, or only a speedier vehicle to destruction?

Can we make the factory Christian? Can men be foundrymen, railroad men, bankers, merchants, lawyers, and embody in their daily life the spirit and the commands of our Lord Jesus Christ? The one question, dominating all others is, can we translate the Sermon on the Mount and St. John xiv and xv into every-day life? If these are not practical, good for the battles of life, just what we want in its cares and evils-we want none of them. If religion is of no use in your office and store, it is of no use in your sick room and at your funeral. If the life which Jesus sets up can not be lived on Broadway and Wall St., it is of no use in this church. God makes not holiness and truth for Sundays; impurity and lies for Mondays. He has not enacted the decalogue for the sanctuary; knavery for the counters. The church is the armory, camp, hospital. Out there is the battle-the world. The real work of religion is to go forth from the church and plant the spirit and law of Christ in society, business, politics, and make this whole earth one vast cathedral whose streets shall be the aisles, and the hum of whose factories shall be hymns of praise to almighty God.

On you men depend the hospitals, libraries, colleges, the founding of missions at home and abroad. Yours are the resources on which all these uplifting agencies depend. Ask yourself honestly this question, not only "What am I making out of my business?" but "What sort of a man is my business making out of me?" For answer it to God one day you must. The old church of the Holy Ghost in Heidelberg pictures the first ideal society. Grouped beneath its broad eaves and supported by its massive granite walls are the shops of scores of traders, where year after year the hum of business and the voices of buyers and sellers

are heard. But within, the great heart of the whole, is the sanctuary and altar of God, with the spire over all pointing to heaven, whence come the voice of prayer and praise; these two in beautiful, blended harmony, mutually supporting, interacting one upon the other, religion and business, Christ and men; built together in loving unity, interpenetrating, together fashioning character, subduing the world, bringing men to God.

Do not live for money. You need Christ. "What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or, what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"

HUMILITY.

BY REV. DAVID M. COOPER, D. D.,*

Pastor Emeritus, Memorial Church, Detroit.

Text: "For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Luke 14:11.

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, was once asked what was the first thing in religion. He replied, "The first thing is humility, the second is humility, the third is humility." This uniform answer to the thrice-repeated question would almost seem to have been suggested to Augustine by the fact that our Savior on three different occasions repeated our text, as if he, too, regarded humility as the first, second and third thing in religion.

I propose to speak of humility first, in a general way as a natural trait in a man's character, and then, second, of humility God-ward, or of evangelical humility, and its reward. Putting it in a negative way with a view to remove some popular misapprehensions concerning its nature, I remark:

1. Humility is not cringing, fawning sycophancy;

* David Mack Cooper was born in Detroit April 18, 1827. He graduated from the University of Michigan, 1848. After spending 1849 in Princeton Seminary, he completed his theological studies under the care of Detroit Presbytery with Rev. Geo. Duffield, D. D., as special instructor. Was pastor at Saginaw City 1852-1859; at Grand Haven 1859-1864; at Albion 1866-1874. Organized Memorial church, Detroit, 1885, and was its pastor till 1896, and since then its pastor emeritus.

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