When a meeting was recently called in Jersey City to LITTLE 

 welcome Turner, the so-called anarchist, the Mayor JOURNEYS 

 forbade the meeting and placed a cordon of policemen 

 around the intended meeting-place. But lo, in their ex- 

 tremity the " anarchists " were invited by a clergyman 

 to come and use his church and he led the way to the 

 sacred edifice, warning the police to neither follow nor 

 enter. As we become better we meet better preachers. 

 CfHumboldt could see no rift through the clouds out- 

 side of the death of the Church and the disbanding of 

 her so-called sacred institutions. We now perceive 

 that very rarely are religious opinions consciously 

 abandoned ; they change, are modified and evolve into 

 something else. Churches are now largely social clubs. 

 In America this is true both of Catholic and Protest- 

 ant. All denominations are interested in social better- 

 ment because the trend of human thought is in that 

 direction. The Church is being swept along upon the 

 tide of time. In a few instances churches have already 

 evolved practical industrial betterments, conducted 

 directly under the supervision of the church and in its 

 edifice. There are hundreds of Kindergartens now car- 

 ried on in church buildings that a few years ago were 

 idle and vacant all the week. Others have sewing cir- 

 cles and boys' clubs, and these have metamorphosed 

 in some instances into Manual Training Schools where 

 girls are taught Domestic Science and boys are given 

 instruction in the Handicrafts. 



I know a church that derives its support from the sale 

 of useful things that are made by its members and 



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