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saved by legislation, that only by his being "lifted up " 

 could all men be drawn unto him. He saw that he could 

 not save the world without sacrificing for it; no more 

 can we. The saving power of the Church is its sacrific- 

 ing power. 



The gospel is the radical cure of the world's great evils, 

 and its promulgation, like its spirit, requires sacrifice. 

 Money is the sinews of spiritual warfare as well as carnal, 

 and a sufficient amount of it would enable us to meet 

 these perils with the gospel. 



Christianize the immigrant and he will be easily 

 Americanized. Christianity is the solvent of all race 

 antipathies. Give the Eomanist a pure gospel and he 

 will cease to be a Romanist. It has already been shown 

 that Christian education will solve the Mormon problem. 

 The temperance reform, like all others which depend on 

 popular agitation, must have money, and is being re- 

 tarded b}' the lack of it. Concerning the remedy for so- 

 cialism, accept the opinion of an economist who has 

 made it a subject of special study. Says Prof. Ely : "It 

 is an undoubted fact that modern socialism of the worst 

 type is spreading to an alarming extent among our labor- 

 ing classes, both foreign and native. I think the danger 

 is of such a character as should arouse the Christian 

 people of this country to most earnest efforts for the 

 evangelization of the poorer classes, particularly in large 

 cities. What is needed is Christianity, and the Chris- 

 tian Church can do far more than political economists to- 

 ward a reconciliation of social classes. The Church's 

 remedj^ for social discontent and dynamite bombs is 

 Christianity as taught in the New Testament. Now in 

 all this you will find nothing new. It is only significant 

 in this regard: others have come to these conclusions 

 from the study of the Bible; from a totally different 

 starting point, from the study of political economy, I 

 have come to the same goal." i 



1 From a letter by Prof. R. T. Ely to Rev. H. A. Schauffler, D. D. I regret 

 that lack of space forbids my quoting the entire letter, which may be 

 found in The Home Missionary for October, 1884, p, 227. 



