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Leading Articles. 



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liviug— that fact wonld interest immensely men who ilr 

 not seem to know that the greatest book of all is huTins: 

 jnat such place and power in the lives of four millions. 



SOME OF ITS SOCIAL WORK. 



The most distinctive feature of the movement is 

 the immense variety of work that is done under the 

 Social Committee. Mr. Amos Wells truly says: — 



The ingenuit.r of the social committee in devising ways 

 of reaching tlie young outside of the church, through social 

 gatherings and pure amusements, has certainly been mar- 

 vellous. The good-literature committee gathers subscrip- 

 tions to denominational periodicals; collects for hospitals 

 and missionaries the waste reading-matter of the congrega- 

 tion: opens churcli reading-rooms, literature tables, or 

 book and magazine exchanges: supplies with religious read- 

 ing baxber shops, railroad waiting-rooms, and the like; 

 keeps scrap-books tearing on the work of the different 

 committees; edits and publi.shes the church paper, and 

 often prints for circulation the pastor's sermons. The 

 flower committee decorates the pulpit, and afterwards, 

 with loving messages, distributes the flowers among the 

 sick or poor. The calling committee seeks out strangers. 

 The relief committee dispenses charitable gifts. The Sun- 

 day-school committee prepares itself to fill gaps in the 

 ranks of the teachers, hunts up absent scholars, gathers in 

 new ones. Missionary and temperance committees agitate 

 those causes b.r special meetings and by literature. The 

 uaher committee welcomes visitors, and keeps the back seats 

 clear. There are invitation committees, to distribute printed 

 invitations to church meetings; correspondence committees 

 to wat^^h over members as they pass from one place to 

 another, and introduce them into some oew society and 

 church home. There are pastors' aid committees, to do 

 little odd jobs for the pastor. The ingenious young folks 

 sometimes even form baby committees, to tend small chil- 

 dren while their mothers go to church. 



ITS .\IMS FOE THE FUTURE. 



Dr. Clark's mind is more and more turned to the 

 task of making the Christian Endeavour movement 

 a great instrument for promoting the brotherhood of 

 the nations. He was recently in Scandinavia. I 

 hope that in a very short time he will be welcomed 

 into Russia. This year the great Convention will be 

 held at Geneva, where Dr. Clark hopes that Espe- 

 ranto mav be found an invaluable key-language for 

 Christian Endea\ourers from the uttermost parts of 

 the world: — 



Dr. Clark's character, as well as his consistent purpose, 

 is well shown in the four great objects which he set be- 

 fore the societies at the convention of 1905. in Baltimore, 

 namely — 



1. That they give 1.000,000 dollars to denominational mis- 

 sions; 



2. That they should bring into the ehnrch one million 

 new church attendants; 



3. That they should induce one million persons to join 

 the church ; 



4. That they should bring one million new members into 

 the Christian" Endeavour societies. 



Add to this the present proposal that each of the 

 4,000,000 Christian Endeavourers should subscribe 

 a jubilee shilling to the building of a great inter- 

 national centre and headquarters for the movement. 

 Dr. Clark has no monetary interest in this, for the 

 United Society, which is the international head- 

 quarters, does not draw for its support one dollar 

 from the individual societies, but is maintained b\' 

 the profits of its own publications. Dr. Oark has 

 supported himself by his own wTitings. 



Sir Lewis Michell, writing recently in the Empire 

 Review on " Southern Rhodesia," says that in Rho- 

 desia " the worst is over." 



THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF CONSERVATISM. 



The Future Tory-Socialist Alliance. 

 Mr. G. S. Street contributes to the Forimgltily 

 for April a verv entertaining article on " Socialists 

 and Tories," which may be regarded as his contri- 

 bution to the optical services which Tories of his 

 school are to render to the darkened eyes of the 

 Labour Party. He starts well by roundly declaring 

 '• that true Toryism and Socialism rightly under- 

 stood are the same thing." 



SOCI.ALISM AN EVOLUTION FROM FEUDAUSM 



Feudalism was Socialism in the rough: — 



The rendering of various services to the community by 

 those best fitted to render them, the most efficient sustenance 

 of all workers for their various work, and the refusal of 

 opportunities and enjoyments unaccompanied by duties, 

 are principles common to philosophical Socialism and his- 

 toric Toryism. 



SOCIALISM THE BULWARK OP PROPERTY. 



Mr. Street maintains that so far from Socialism 

 leading to Communism, it is by Socialism that the 

 rights of property ■will be secured: — 



How people can suppose that Socialism is a step in that 

 direction I cannot imagine. I should have thought it clear 

 that when men are more aptly allotted to their proper 

 functions, and more properly cherished in accordance witli 

 their services to the community, it will be even more tin- 

 likely than now. when position and wealth are so often 

 irrational and haphazard, that the community would allow 

 the idle and incompetent to share alike with the strenuous 

 and nsefnl. 



CAPITALISM HAS KILLED CONSERVATISM. 



Mr. Street declares that — 



for many years now the influence — tlie supposed influence. 1 

 will say — of capitalism, working for its own ends, has been 

 a blight on the Conservative Party, blasting its credit wit:. 

 the country as a whole. Brewers, landlords, mine-owners — 

 their figures have bulked very sinister in the eyes of wages- 

 earning men. A party which is supposed to stand for veste 1 

 interests in the first place is doomed. . . . But although 

 it contains many mere Conservatives, it also contains 

 Tories who have some conception of constructive statesman- 

 ship, who aie not frightened b.y the word Socialist, and 

 who, like Disraeli and Lord Randolph Churchill, hate the 

 - word- Conservative. The ruin which the last-named states- 

 man prophesied for his party, if capital should dominate it, 

 has well-nigh overtaken it. It can still rise from its fall. 



THE PROGRAMME OF THE TORY SOCIALISTS. 



Mr. Street thinks that Protection will be the basis 



of the new alliance: — 



But could any folly be more illogical than that of 

 Socialists refusing to consider taxiff reform, assuming im- 

 plicitly that the State should have no control over trade.^ 

 Socialists and Labour members are destined to be tariff 

 reformers. 



The Tory party of the future is destined to make 

 short work of many Conservati\ e shibboleths : — 



■When the State claims to work its children's brains it 

 must in justice — as well as obvious sense, if it cares for its 

 manhood— attend to their bodies. When its services have 

 exhausted the labours of its citizens, it must provide, 

 without a taint of derogation and restraint, for their old 

 age. To control wages and hours of labour is a sound 

 Tory tradition. I would add that in future the ablest Tory 

 administrators must not be bullied out of their efforts to 

 reform an admittedly bad system in Ireland bv the threats 

 of intolerant b gots. That many Tories see their way to 

 combining with the intelligence of the working classes in 

 constructive statesmanship I cannot doubt. 



After this all that remains to be done is to write 

 Hie Jacet on the tombstone of the party which, with 

 a brief interral, governed the Empire from 1886 to 

 1906. 



