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the home field, to the work which remains 

 on frontiers and in great cities, we iind a 

 problem equally complicated. A pastor 

 who had spent years in India said to a 

 friend considering a call to London : 

 " Come to London ; it is the greatest mis- 

 sionary field in the world. I know, for I 

 have spent years on mission ground." In 

 many localities the cities are relapsing into 

 barbarism. Forces are working toward 

 heathenism here as fast as in Central 

 Africa. Selfishness is organized and bel- 

 ligerent. It opposes the Church at every 

 step. It uses consummate ability in the 

 degeneration of the State, in the exaltation 

 of unworthy ideals of patriotism, and in 

 its appeals to passion to embroil nations. 

 Underneath these evils are others more 

 elusive but not less perilous. The multi- 

 plication of divorces tells a sad story. The 

 home is being undermined. The young 

 are being polluted by influences alert and 

 obstinate because impelled by the prospect 

 of financial gain. Opposed to those agencies 

 of selfishness are spiritual forces working 

 for the redemption of society; but closer 

 study shows that those through whom the 

 Spirit must act are not organized, often 



