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American periodicals and had also at one time been editor-in-chief of "The Academy" and "Pall Mall Budget." He was a friend of Hardy, Meredith, and Kipling, and other noted writers, and of Sargent, Leighton, and others prominent in art circles. Naturally, he had many interesting reminiscences of these friends. His sense of the picturesque and humorous enabled him to use them to his readers' enjoyment in his articles and books. His latest book of memoirs had the singular title of "Naphtali"-from the Scriptural phrase "Naphtali, a hind let loose." Among his other books are "The Diary of a Looker-On" and "Things Seen in America."

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AYNE B. WHEELER, who died last week in his fiftyeighth year, had probably as great an influence on legislation and on the current of American life as any other private citizen of this generation.

He devoted his life to furthering the program of the Anti-Saloon League, but he avoided the narrowness and the bigotry that are too likely to attach to the man who devotes himself to a single cause, particularly to a cause of reform.

He educated himself in the law in

order that he might be able to handle the legal business of the League; but in the handling of that business he showed an ability in legal analysis which, if he had devoted his energies to general practice, probably would have placed him in the front rank of American lawyers.

Born in Brookfield, Ohio, educated at Oberlin and at Western Reserve University, he began at college his lifelong fight against the liquor traffic. He had He had much to do with temperance legislation in many States and with prosecuting saloon cases. His chief work was done as counsel and Legislative Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America.

He organized and directed one of the most efficient political machines that this country has known, but his mind. was never closed to the counsel and the claims of others.

He died comparatively young, but he lived to see the cause to which he had given his life triumphant, the program to which he had devoted himself carried out.

He shares the credit for this achievement with no other man. He had, in the real sense, no predecessor. He probably will have, in the real sense, no successor-and this not merely because of the difficulty of finding another man of

his type, but also because of the fact that the work which he did, being done, will not require to be done again.

He has been criticised because he used the Anti-Saloon League less effectively in prohibition enforcement than he had used it in prohibition procurement, but

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this probably does not show a failure of Wheeler so much as it shows that the work of the Anti-Saloon League may have been completed with the adoption of prohibition.

Christianity on Trial

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OT the Church, not the ecclesiastics, not the creeds, not the rituals, but Christianity itself, the religion of Jesus, is to-day in all parts of the world on trial. Will the faith that Jesus had, will the life, inspired by that faith, that he led, will the force that he let loose in the world, actually and practically work?

At Lausanne, in Switzerland, there has been held a great Conference representing churches of nearly a hundred varieties and nations numbering twoscore and a half. Some idea of what they have been discussing may be derived from the reading in this issue of our editorial correspondent's report entitled "A Bridge Between Authority and Freedom?". From that report and other reports it would seem that among these numerous church organizations scattered through many lands there is perhaps a more general agreement concerning what they believe about this religion and about the way those who profess it should be organized than had been commonly supposed. If it were the Church that were on trial in the tribunal

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of the world's opinion, this Conference might be a notable contribution to the defense of the Church as it is or as it may become. But it is not the Church as such that is chiefly on trial to-day. Indifference to the Church rather than hostility to it, or even criticism of it, seems to have become or to be becoming a characteristic of this age. If that is so, it is because the churches have seemed to be thinking and talking much about creeds and rituals and forms of organization. It is not that they have disagreed and sometimes come into harsh conflict over questions of creeds and rituals and forms of organization that has been the cause of alienating untold thousands from the churches so much as that they have seemed to put such matters as creed and ritual and forms of organization in place of religion itself. If anything could more surely alienate the multitude from the churches than disagreement among the churches on these matters, it would be their agreement about them. Indeed, a great mass of people are not aware of the disagreements that seem so important to ecclesiastics and theologians. The deepest questions of religion do not touch these matters primarily at all. On another page of this issue a mother puts the sort of question that the Church cannot answer in terms of creed or ritual or organization. To countless numbers it seems as if the Church were offering them a stone when they ask for bread. It does not matter to them that the churches should all agree upon the kind of stone to be offered.

A mother asks, "What shall I teach my children?"

It does not help that mother to have the Church answer, "The Episcopal, Presbyterial, and Congregational systems have an appropriate place in the life of the reunited Church."

A young student asks, "What can I reply to a science that seems to tell me that I am but a machine reacting to stimuli as automatically as a locomotive to the hand of the engineman?"

It does not help that student to have the Church tell him, "We agree in the belief that in the Holy Communion our Lord is present."

A business man asks, "What chance is there in the keen and sometimes unscrupulous competition of business for me to apply the principles laid down in the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount?"

It does not help such a business man for the Church to tell him, "The Church in its varied forms accepts both the Apostles' and the Nicene Creeds."

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erning authorities of a nation, trustees of the interests of a people, put into practice on behalf of the nation without infidelity to their trust the spirit of unselfishness, self-denial, the service of the weak by the strong, the sacrifice of the just for the unjust, as embodied in the life of Jesus of Nazareth?"

And it does not help that statesman for the Church to answer, "We accept the Word of God as given in the Holy Scriptures."

A wage-earner asks, "What shall I say to those who tell me that Christianity is a slave religion, a soporific to keep me and my fellows contented with our lot in expectation of a promised life to come, a scheme by which the powerful -use priests and preachers to deaden my resistance to oppression and exploitation?"

It does not help that wage-earner for the Church to tell him, "We are a unit in advocating the perpetual obligation of baptism and the Lord's Supper."

Two weeks ago Irving T. Bush in The Outlook told of being in Constantinople when it was occupied by the Allied forces, and of being told that there had been opened there by Christians five thousand saloons and European harlots walked the streets to satisfy the troops of the Christian Powers. What has the Church to say to that? No amount of agreement on matters of creed or ritual or church organization will help to solve that problem.

What has the Church to say to China? For many years Christian missionaries have been in that vast country. It is true that they have disagreed about matters of faith, of creed, and organization; but would they have really impressed China more with the religion of Jesus if they had agreed?

Meantime there are other claimants for the place of Christianity. To many the chief claimant seems to be science, with its intrepid and relentless and utterly honest search for truth. To many the chief claimant seems to be psychology, that delves into the inner recesses of the mind of man and offers explanations for all his motives and his conduct. To many the chief claimant seems actually to be sport, with its frank and open code of conduct in struggle. To those who have transferred their allegiance from Christianity as they have heard it preached to one or another of such claims what does argument about Nicæa or the seven sacraments mean? Wherever the Church has prevailed it has not been because it has agreed upon doctrine or any such thing, but because its representatives have embodied in their lives and have helped to embody in the lives

about them the spirit of him who "came

not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many;" who, when John the Baptist sent to inquire whether he was "he that should come," told the messengers to go and tell John what they had seen and

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heard; who made the test of success what one does to even the least of those whom he counted brothers.

The Church is strong to-day throughout the world because, in spite of its division, in spite of its emphasis on the theoretical and the external, it has been rich in those whom its Master has called great. ERNEST HAMLIN ABBOTT.

Cecil's Rebellion FTER five years of compromising his own ideals for the sake of his party, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood has rebelled.

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"I consider," he has told the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, "that I shall be able to do better work outside the Cabinet than in."

Though he has disagreed violently with his Government, for five years he has played their game. In three important international conferences he has carried between Downing Street and Geneva instructions with which he was entirely out of sympathy. At the Opium Conference he successfully carried out Downing Street's orders to block the abolition of Indian opium production. Although chief delegate to the Preparatory Commission on Disarmament, he was forced by the Cabinet to oppose most of the peace proposals he had worked for. Finally, at Geneva, where the British brought forward the gigantic

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cruiser program which was the antithesis of his ideas on disarmament, Cecil, to the amazement of American delegates who had talked with him, still followed instructions.

"An agreement might have been reached on terms which would have sacrificed no British interests," Cecil now says; but, instead, the British delegates, after consultation with the Cabinet at London, stood pat. Three days after the break-up of the Naval Conference Cecil tendered his resignation.

In view of his own history and that of his illustrious father, uncle, and brother, his course is not surprising. The Cecils are chiefly distinguished for their power of acid analysis of other people's enthusiasm. Each of them, after succeeding brilliantly at politics, has taken refuge in something more soothing to an analytical mind-the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord Cecil's father, in chemical science; the Earl of Balfour, Lord Cecil's uncle, in metaphysics; Lord Hugh, Lord Robert's brother, in the Church.

Lord Robert Cecil did not find his anchorage until seven years ago. Admitted to the bar, he entered politics actively in 1906 as a member of Parliament for East Marylebone. He was not considered practical. He championed woman's suffrage, but opposed the eighthour day, old-age pensions, and the taxation of unearned incomes. In the war he was in turn Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Minister of Blockade. Finding himself more and more out of sympathy with Lloyd George, he rebelled, as he has done now, and crossed over to the Opposition line. It was about that time that he found his anchorage in the ideals that cluster about the League of Nations.

Together with Colonel House and General Jan Smuts, Cecil assisted Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League. At first the foundling child of Europe, the League grew stronger, and Europe began to be proud of it. The Conservative Government of Great Britain, waking up to the importance of having an able representative at Geneva, made overtures to Lord Robert and won his consent to become Lord Privy Seal, with the understanding that he would devote all his time to the League. His activities won him the Woodrow Wilson Peace Prize. After the interval of the Labor Government, Viscount Cecil, just returning from the United States, where he had a tremendous following, was sent to the Opium Conference. There he compromised his ideals, as he did later in the sessions of the Disarmament Commission and

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finally at the Geneva Naval Conference. There are times when a man may honestly be a spokesman for others. But he can be so honestly and effectively only when he is so openly.

It was supposed that at these three conferences Cecil was speaking his own mind. If he had not been supposed thus to speak, he would never have been sent;

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HAT is it that has given New England such an influence on the rest of the country? Here are five States without mines, without great farms, without wealth-producing natural resources-unless an unsurpassed seacoast indented with safe and beautiful harbors is a resource and yet New England has contributed more men, energy, intellect, and capital to the upbuilding of the Nation than any other section of equal area.

To answer satisfactorily the question which this phenomenon raises would require a long historical, psychological, and ethnological treatise. But now and then some modest family record or some forgotten personal narrative affords a little light even to the casual inquirer.

The other day, for instance, while rummaging some out-of-the-way bookshelves, I found a memoir of a New Englander whom I knew when he was a grandfather and I was a schoolboy fifty years ago. Reading it revived some old memories of the most gifted and original teacher I ever knew, with whom I took, as a boy of ten, my first tottering steps in Latin, French, history, and mathematics steps which, through no fault of his, never got much beyond the tottering stage, I am afraid.

This "Memorial Sketch," as it is modestly called, not only awakened my own recollections of a remarkable teacher, but brought vividly before my mind some of those qualities which have given New England her leadership. I wonder if in the limited space at my command I can make any kind of a pen sketch of this New England grandfather-not only the grandsire of his own kin but like one to the children of the village.

He came of English stock, probably Yorkshire stock, and his earliest American ancestor, a Puritan immigrant, landed in Massachusetts and settled in Andover in 1643. Thence his progenitors migrated and pioneered through New Hampshire into Maine, where he was born in 1803, when Maine was still a province or district of Massachusetts. for that large and beautiful territory did

not become a State until 1820. It was in this year that the subject of this sketch was graduated from college, for his forebears, while pioneers, merchants, and traders, were always deeply interested in college. To have taken the college degree of A.B. at seventeen might lege degree of A.B. at seventeen might seem to have indicated precocity. It did not. It simply indicated that college requirements were not as complicated then as they are to-day.

Nor were professional salaries a topic of as anxious discussion as they are in 1927. For, after having studied divinity at Andover, this future New England grandfather was, at twenty-five years of age, appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in a newly established New England college, his salary being eight hundred dollars, "one hundred dollars of which," the trustees stipulated, "are, however, to be appropriated by him annually, with the advice of the other members of the faculty, towards making repairs and additions to the philosophical apparatus.”

The munificence of this salary encouraged the young professor to marry. His bride, the granddaughter of a prosperous London merchant, apparently did not think her lot an unhappy one even in a remote New England village, for in one of her letters to a former school friend this cheerful note is sounded: "What a world this is, after all, and how many treasures we find even in its recesses!"

But the call, not of the wild, but of the child, which foreshadowed his later career as a remarkable grandfather, was too strong for the young professor. He left his village college to become the head of a newly organized school for girls, which he made famous throughout New England by the introduction of principles and methods at that time quite new in Puritan society. Some idea of his original views of pedagogical government is obtained from an extract from one of his earliest announcements to his new pupils:

You will, perhaps, ask . . . what are the punishments which are resorted to in the School? The answer

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is, there are no punishments. I do not say that I should not, in case all other means should fail, resort to the most ecided measures to secure obedience and subordination. . . . But as to the consequences which may result to you if you should persist in what is wrong, it is not necessary that you should know them beforehand. They who wander from duty always plunge themselves into troubles they do not anticipate; and if you do what, at the time you are doing it, you know to be wrong, it will not be unjust that you should suffer the consequences, even if they were not beforehand understood and expected. This will be the case with you all through life, and it will be the case here.

This philosophy of reasonableness, equanimity, and justice he followed all through his life. When I first came in contact with him in his grandfatherly days, the children of his sons and of his village neighbors gathered about him in the old New England homestead to which he had returned, as naturally as particles of metal gather about a magnet. For he understood children, sympathized with them, and knew how to discipline them without being a disciplinarian.

For a New England Puritan he had singularly broad views and an interest in international affairs not common even in the Boston of his day. As a young college professor his interest in the struggle of the modern Greeks for independence led him to take under his special protection two refugees from Greece who had come to this country seeking an education "one a young married man, and the other a little girl of ten years, Sappho by name."

In the intervals of his teaching and writing (the memoir contains a biblioggraphy of 180 volumes from his pen, chiefly for young people, which were published between 1830 and 1873) this quiet but busy New Englander found time to visit Europe seven or eight times, on one occasion living several months in Paris. On his first visit to London, in 1843, he wrote home as fol-. lows, so the memoir says:

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in a splendid saloon in the city, at a public dinner, at which the Duke of Cambridge, the brother of one or two of the late kings of England, prended. ... I am invited to-morrow.evening to Mr. Everett's, the American Minister's, and on the next day to a fashionable party, so you see that I am getting fairly drawn into the festivities of high life. . . . I imagined that I should feel much embarrassed in such circumstances, for a want of a familiar acquaintance with the usages and ceremonies and principles of etiquette which prevail. But I find that these ceremonies are, in fact, left pretty much to the servants, who are gayly dressed, and who make a great parade, while the ladies and gentlemen themselves act at their ease very much as they do at a party in F At all events, I determined to pursue my own plain, straightforward course, thinking it better to adopt without disguise the simple and unpretending manners of an American than to make myself ridiculous by blundering attempts to imitate English noblemen. I

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have accordingly pursued this course, and have thus far no reason to complain of the manner in which I have been received.

A modest and wholly likable way of "waving the flag" and of disclosing, if not asserting, the gentle pride of this honest New Englander in being able to say Americanus sum!

This honesty of sentiment he displayed all through life. Although an ordained clergyman of the orthodox wing of the Congregational Church, he preached only for two or three years in his early manhood, and gave up the pulpit for teaching. Disputatious arguments about creeds were distasteful to him. His religion was one of conduct in this life, and he left the future to the future. Two or three years before his death he wrote to his brother: "We have had our day of active work, and have both been tolerably busy. Our preparation for the great change is, I trust, fully made, and we have nothing now to

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do but to make ourselves as comfortable and happy as we can, day by day, with such sources of enjoyment as are within our reach. Worldly enjoyment, I mean; for while God continues us in this world, and conceals the other almost entirely from our view-in respect to its details certainly I think we have a right to conclude that he intends that we shall occupy ourselves as much and as pleasantly as we can with such things as he now puts within our reach."

This was somewhat radical in a day when Calvinistic New England believed, or professed to believe, that this world is a thorny and narrow path which must be suffered and endured solely because of the glory to which it leads. This New England grandfather, whose influence entered directly or indirectly into hundreds of homes, was one of the pioneers in the movement which has transformed the gloomy Puritanism of Jonathan Edwards into the grateful naturalism of John G. Whittier.

|HRISTIAN reunion? Well, and why not? Of late this query has been growing steadily, sturdily. In proof of it representatives of all the Christian world, save the Romans, are here in Lausanne.

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were held. To raise the fund to make this special Lausanne Conference possible, the Hon. Charles E. Hughes was made head of the Committee and the Hon. George W. Wickersham Chairman of the Executive Committee. the past year this Committee raised $160,000, the largest single gift, $25,000, being from Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. But the whole Christian world has participated in financing the movement. Most of the contributions have been in small amounts.

It was appropriate that Bishop Brent should preach the opening sermon here. I noted in it this parallel:

It is for conference, not controversy, that we are called. . . . Conference is a measure of peace; controversy, a weapon of war. Conference is self-abasing; controversy exalts self. Conference in all lowliness strives to understand the view-point of others; controversy, to impose its views on all comers. Conference looks for unities; controversy exaggerates differences. Conference is a co-operative method for conflict; controversy, a divisive method. I do not say there may not be occasion where controversy may be necessary. This is not one of them.

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HOSE who look to see an early merging of churches may be disappointed. Outward signs of difference will doubtless long persist-in some countries the black robe or soutane as aggressively as ever in evidence; in others, the Oriental tall hats and big, bushy beards; in others, the little oldfashioned white ties.

This picturesque mixture of uniformity one sees to-day in Lausanne streets. But it covers a prodigious sentiment for Christian unity. Hearts and minds have been stirred towards getting together as never before. At least, so say Bishops Manning and Perry, with whom I have just been talking.

This has been evident enough in the addresses already made, even if some hearers thought the Metropolitan of Athens and the Bishop of Bombay a bit provocative. But what would you? I even found one tender critic who thought the broad-minded Congregationalist, Dr. Cadman, slightly so inclined. I did

not.

Fundamentalism and Modernism are bound to clash, however. Between the Catholic and the Congregationalist views of what constitutes a church are many

contacts.

On "The Nature of the Church" Dr. Cadman's was a notable address. "Nei

The Church's Message to the World,

The Nature of the Church,

The Church's Common Confession of Faith,

The Church's Ministry,

The Sacraments,

The Unity of Christendom.

The reports made by these sections are subject to review by a committee consisting of four Americans, with whom

I have also talked (Bishop Brent; the Methodist Bishop Cannon; Dr. William Adams Brown, of Union Seminary; and Dr. Ross Stevenson, President of Princeton Seminary); of five Britishers (three Anglican bishops, the Congregationalist Principal Garvie, and the Methodist Dr. William Lofthouse); Dr. Merle d'Aubigné, of Paris; Professor Adolf Deissmann, of the University of Berlin; Archbishop Söderblom, Chief of the Swedish Lutherans; and the Metropolitan Germanos, of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

"The Church's Message to the World" is, of course, the Gospel, the source of the energy necessary to transform society. The Church comprehends our generation's thirst for intellectual sincerity, social justice, spiritual aspirations. But let us not forget, as the Methodist Bishop McConnell, in his superb address on the subject, reminded

us:

It may be well for the ardent Protestant in particular to ask himself if the task of Christianity is now conceived in as wide terms as before the Reformation. Protestantism has not yet supplied effective substitutes for some agencies it cast aside. In those Middle Ages, which we now see were not dark ages by any means, the Church brought all human group relations under its sway. The Church intervened between warring nations. and quarreling nobles, between feudal lords and serfs. between employers and employed, between wrangling individuals. That the Church was her

"nor negative sectarianism can forever set aside the corrective witness of the Church Universal." Yet, he almost shouted, "The test of the true Church is not conformity to type, but effectiveness in fulfilling the will of her Lord, and therefore that organization need not be of a single type."

Dr. Adams Brown, conducting the discussion, proclaimed at its close:

The Church of God is constituted by its own will, and not by other wills, consents, or beliefs of men.

Just as there is one Christ, so there can be but one Church....

Divisions present obstacles to the accomplishment of the Church's task, which it is our duty, by God's help,

to remove.

The report concluded by defining certain marks whereby the visible Church can be known:

The acknowledgement of the Word of God as given in the Holy Scripture.

The profession and proclamation of faith in God as revealed and incarnate in Christ.

The observance of the sacraments. A ministry for the pastoral office; the preaching of the Word and the administration of the sacraments.

A fellowship in prayer, in worship, in all the means of grace, in holiness of life, and in the service of man.

This visible Church, in Dr. Cadman's words, is "the implicit or explicit Catholicism, which shall yet regain undiluted its original significance, because the Church is God's living organism who shall fulfill Christ's own promise that against her the gates of Hades cannot prevail, for hers is the deathless life of the Deity himself."

Then came the report on "The Church's Common Confession of Faith." It accepts both the Apostles' and the Nicene Creeds, adding that the several churches shall continue to make free use of such special Confessions as they pos

sess. But, as the Anglican Bishop Go reminded his hearers, reunion in an large sense would mean, when it cam the bringing together of the Roma Catholic and Protestant Churches, bot of whom have always accepted bot creeds. Yet, after their long centuries alienation, a large patience on each sid may be necessary.

As to the Church's ministry, existin forms differ, both regarding the fund tions assigned to the holders of the mir isterial office and the mode in which th commission is conferred, Archbisho Söderblom, of Upsala, had a good wor of advice regarding this, taken from th practice of the Swedish Church. Wha the priests and ministers are to a churc so are the judges to a court. In 1907 a the Hague Conference, on the erectio of a new Permanent Court of Interna tional Justice, the Powers came to a agreement on every point save one-th election of the judges. So it may be tha Christian reunion will be established i every other respect before it is estab lished in this respect.

On the sacraments the Orientals stoo out strongly to-day for the mysticism surrounding their seven forms. Thoug important problems arose in connection with other rites to which the name o sacrament is put, it was thought wise no to spend the Conference's strength of these things, but on the perpetual obli gation of the administration of th Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord Supper.

THE unity sought at Lausanne is no

uniformity; indeed, diversity soul be safeguarded. Yet the question arise whether, justified by historical circum stances, all the manifestations of the spe cial aspects of Christian truth or prac tice, having rendered immense service t the Universal Church, can so easily i the future remain in the unity of th One Church. This problem, leading u to that of a central authority for Chris tendom, was not included in the Lau sanne agenda.

Like its predecessors, so the presen Conference shows that the problem o Christian reunion must needs be ap proached from different angles.

Fundamentally, as the title of th Lausanne Conference indicates, Chris tian reunion is a question of Faith an Order, but practically and for a ver long time to come, the main accent of Christian reunion must be laid on th application of Christian principles in al the ramifications of individual and socia life. We must have force in conduct. Lausanne, August 18, 1927.