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explications, he says: ‘‘ When we meet a definition running thus—the 
science of human welfare, in its relations with the production and distri- 
bution of wealth, we shall begin to hope the doctrine of social, or politi- 
cal, or national economy, is beginning to assume its proper proportions.”’ 
The sentiment of that definition directed all his studies, all his writings, 
and, as a passion, governed all his life. In religion, the faith that works 
by love ; in economic theory, the best interests of humanity ; in morals, 
the justice, mercy, and charity which practically exemplify the prother- 
hood of men; were the governing impulses of all the works of both his 
head and his hands. 
In his ‘‘ New Themes for the Protestant Clergy”? we find such senti- 
ments as these: ‘‘Creeds, but not without charity; Theology, but not 
without humanity; Protestantism, but not without Christianity.” 
Again: ‘It is not enough for the Christian to be concerned only for the 
interests of men in the world to come, but for their best interests in this 
world.”? With some severity of rebuke, but far more earnestness of af- 
fection, he says: ‘‘ We maintain that Christ himself should have the 
chief voice in defining Christianity, and that this has been denied him in 
most, if not all, the compends and summaries of Christian doctrine which 
are the bond of Protestant churches ;’’ following this up by urging the 
fact that ‘the world now believes that the religion announced by the 
Author and Finisher of our faith embraces humanity as well as divinity 
in its range.’’ 
This remonstrance, and its implied censure, will be understood when 
we perceive that he went further, far further, in his apprehension of true 
Christian charity, than almsgiving extended to pressing cases of distress. 
The modern usage of devolving the relief of the poor upon the poorhouse 
system established by the civil law, he calls ‘the stigma of Protestant- 
ism ;” and he demands from the professors of Christianity an earnest en- 
deavor to give the poor permanent emancipation from the evils which 
they endure. He presses the charge against the Established Church of 
England, that it holds resources donated to its Catholic predecessors for 
relief of the poor, which now yield £50,000,000 per annum, while throw- 
ing the support of the suffering upon the charity of the State; at the 
same time quietly sustaining that system of industrial and commercial 
policy which takes from the labor of the realm two hundred and fifty 
millions of dollars for the use of the government, and five times more for 
the profit of capital. Nay further this gentlest of gentlemen, this most 
orthodox of churchmen, this most devout of worshipers, in the convic- 
tion that the failure of Christians to exemplify Christianity in their deal- 
ings with the world is the grand cause of the aversion and rejection it en- 
counters, is led therein to find some justification for the socialism and the 
insurrectionary demonstrations now so rapidly and threateningly spread- 
ing throughout Europe and America, and exhibiting such a spirit of re- 
yolt among the masses of Christendom as is nowhere found in the pagan 
world, 
