Man in the Light of Evolution 



Interpreter's House. The Church should be the 

 Greatheart to guide us on our lonely journey 

 through the Valley of Humiliation and up to the 

 clear vision of the Delectable Mountains, that 

 heart and faith fail not along the weary road. 



This is the chief end and purpose which must 

 always dominate and permeate the Church's 

 thought, work, and life. This does not mean 

 that the institutional Church is necessarily an 

 eccentricity. The Church may and must take up 

 any line of work needed for human progress and 

 welfare until some special institution can make 

 a study of the need and satisfy it in the best and 

 most adequate way. In many of our villages 

 and smaller towns the Church is and should be 

 the center of civic and social as well as of re- 

 ligious life. But when apostles leave the word 

 and message of God to serve tables, there seems 

 to be a misdirection of energy. 



The Church is the army of Jehovah, Lord of 

 Hosts, a disciplined army of hardy, heroic souls, 

 each soldier aiding his fellow. Its orders are 

 always '^ Forwards ! " A purely defensive cam- 

 paign is a lost campaign. It joins battle fiercely 

 and fearlessly with every form of sin and mis- 

 ery, without counting odds or cost. Respon- 



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