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application of the gospel to the groups in which men find themselves. 
But there need be no conflict in the two messages, as the wiser leaders 
have always seen. The result of this emphasis of the social gospel has 
been a re-examination of all our human relationships. The relation 
of employer to employee, the influence of environment upon character, 
the protection of the weak and the children of the world, the abolition 
of poverty, the rights of man to healthy homes and cities, the relation¬ 
ships of nations to each other, have all come to be viewed in new light. 
The Christianizing of industry, politics, business, international rela¬ 
tionships and all phases of civilization has become the loudest word in 
our pulpits. In this movement the Federal Council of the Churches 
of Christ in America, comprising most of the great Protestant com¬ 
munions of the nation, has played a great part. A glance at the names 
of its various commissions is very significant: The Commission on Social 
Service; The Commission on International Justice and Goodwill; The 
Commission on Relations with the Orient; The Commission on Tem¬ 
perance; The Commission on Religious Education; The Commission on 
the Home, and so on. The encyclicals of the various communions deal 
largely with the Christianizing of the social order. The great Inter- 
Church World Movement placed emphasis upon this phase of religion. 
For example, the piece of work which attracted most attention was its 
survey of the steel mills. Indeed the great message of the church to¬ 
day is that every department of human life must be brought under the 
laws of the Kingdom of God, and service is preached as the expression 
of faith as much as worship in the temple or personal communion with 
God. 
In closing this survey of religious tendencies in America attention 
should be called to the growing interest in Christian Unity. During 
the last twenty-five years several organizations have come into being 
for promoting organic unity of the Churches. Several of the large 
denominations have appointed Commissions on Christian Unity. Many 
conferences on unity have been held. There is a large and constantly 
increasing literature upon the subject. Some denominations are now 
considering the problem of union, such as the two great branches of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, North and South, while in the Lutheran 
bodies union of three great branches was recently accomplished, and 
also union has come between the branches of the Baptist groups. The 
recent great world conference on Faith and Order held at Geneva was 
largely initiated by the American churches. 
