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THE CHRISTIAN
NATION.
Vol. 59.
E D I T O R I A L
NEW YORK, SEPTE-AIBBR 24, 1913.
THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
The Minutes of the Synod of 1913 at the
present price (loc.) will come into the hands
of a larger number of people than usual. We
ask their attention to the Report on pages
79 and 80. Is it not meet that thanks should
be given to the Head of the Church for hearing
the prayersi of his people, when the item
as to the Seminary opening in the Star Notes
is read?" Then the twO' institutions, the College
and the Seminary, will both be kept in
mind, and prayer shall continue that the Lord
of the harvest will send forth laborers into
his harvest.
Dr. Henry Preserved Smith, professor of
the Language and Literature of the Old
Testament and the History of Religion in
the Meadville Theological School (Unitarian),
hasi been chosen Librarian of Union Theological
Seminary.
The following Sabbathi venture is published
with the names in the daily press:
"Washinig)ton, Sept. 14.—Ele-ven society
Aphrodites in tbe early morning today, clad
in skirtless bathing suits, braved the cold waters
of the Tidal Basin for a three-quartermile
swim across it. There were 11 when
tey plunged in, but only seven reached the
ether side, and those seven were blue and
chilled when kind friends pulled them to the
bank."
What is "Society," after all?
A CHINESE VIEW.
The Republic Advocate is a Chinese paper
published in English at Shanghai. Tbe Missionary
Herold for September contains this
quotation from it:
"The splendid self-sacrifice of thie missionaries
in ouir midst is frequently neutralized
by the selfishness of their governments, and
we bope thiey will let this truth be widely
known."
The writer is supposed to be a Yale graduate.
A KINGDOM OE CHRIST
It is not thie private sentimen't.s or individual
conduct of the inhabitants of a land,
which gives character to a Kingdom of this
world, as such; neithier is the adoption of
Christian principles and practices by the
great bulk of a people sufBcient to constitute
the nation a Kingdom of Christ. The nations
of the world have, in thieir national capacit\',
too plainly acknowledged and served
the god of this world. They have also, in
too many instances, proclaimed themselves
Kingdoms of anti-Christ, gi-\-ing their power
and support directly to the beast in their
public social character. When the happy state
of things announced in this prediction shall
have been introduced, it is impossible to believe
otherwise than that these Kingdoms
shall in the same public social capacity, become
the Kingdoms of Christ. And what
does tbis becoming the Kingdoms of Christ
imp rt? Certainly at the very least, that for
which we are now contending, namely, that
in token of tbeir subjection to Him they shall
recognize His authority, and subordinate
their interests! to the advancement of His
glory.—Messiah the Prince, by William Syming-ton.
AVHO EDITS THE MAGAZINES.
"fial monthly magazines were not edited by
college graduates. The man who made the
remark
was- piromptlly confrcnited with the
following record:
The Qentury, edited by Robert Sterling
Yard, Princeton, '83.
Scribner's, edited by Edward L. Burlingame.
Harvard, '69.
Harper's, edited by Henry M. Alden, Williamis,
'57.
Atlantic Monthly, edited by EUery Sedgwick,
Harvard, '94.
Review of Reviews, edited by Albert
Shaw, Grinnell, '79.
World's Work, edited by Arthur W. Page,
Harvard, '05.
commandment teaches us that we should keep
holy the Lord's Day. The Sabbath of 'the
]e-\\-s. which is our Saturday, was gradually
changed by the Christian Church to the day
of re:urrection, which is Sunday.
But the
fourth co-mmandmenit applies absblutely to
the Christian Sabbath even as it applied to
the Jewish Sabbath. It teaches us that one
day in seven is holy, and is to be used for
worsbip and nest. It teaches us also that we
are to work six days. Idleness during the
-si-eek is just as mnch a violation of this law
as is staying away from churcb on Sunday,
In these days when the observance of Sun-
day is getting more and more slack it might
be well for us to urge this, commandment as
strongly as possible. God will not bless the
individual or the; nation which 'refuses to
obey this law."
Plans for a great International congress on
marriage and divorce, tO' be held in San Francisco
May 19-25, 1915, were tentatively decided
upon at a reoenit luncheon attended by
members of the California State Commission
on Marriage and Divorce. The congress will
be held under the auspices of the international
committee on marriage and divorce,
at the head of which is Bisihop Luther B.
During a recent, discnission of the old Wilson, of New York. Cardinal Gibbons and
quesition, college versus no-college, one of W. Bourke Cockran are expected to deliver
addresses.
tbe contestants remarked that the substan-
SOCIALISM NO. 3.
Class Struggle.
By the Rev. J. M. Coleman.
Marx finds two, and only two, classes in
society, capitalists! and laborers.
Henceit
is impossible to reconciile the interests of
these classes; there must be hostility
as long as both endure. The outcome of
the struggle between these classes will be the
disappearance of the capitalists and the abolition
of capitalism.
Since th'is result is to
oome about, not through any process of education,
but through the, working; of social
laws over which man had no control, it will
be interesting tO' see how far the inevitable
President Woodrow Wilson bas appointed
process has gone.
the Rev. Dr. Rufus W. Miller one of the 11
In the evolution of the class struggle there
delelgates to represent the United States
are several inevitable results to be noted.
Government at tbe International Congress on
I. The wages of the laborers will be continually
reduced from period to period and
Alcoholism which will be held in Milan, Italy,
September 22 to 28. Doctor Miller is secreitary
of the Publication and Sunday School
the pauper class will increase until all laborers
belong to it. Marx wrote these views
Board of the Refonned Church. Another of
about fifty yearsi ago, so that sO'me will be
the delegation is /Rev. Carles Scanlon, of the
able to judge how far thfe theory seems to be
Presbyterian Temperance Committee.
supported by t'be facts.
According to the statements, of those who
Rev. Dr. Floyd Tomkins says in his comment
on the Sabbath School Lesson of Sep­
have given careful study to the question, not
only wages, but also the standard of living,
tember 7, in the Public Ledger: "Tbe fonrth has a higher level than when M'arx wrote
"Das Kapital". But if the view of IVTarx
is correct the decline of wages and increase
of pauperism should have been going on for
at least a century and a half, or since the
definite rise of capitahsm'. Wages should be
lower, not only in money, but in what money
will buy than in our grandfather's days.
Those whoi are supported by charity should
be growing in numbers year by year. But
none of these things are turning out accord'
ing to the theory, which would seem to indicate
that th'ere is something radically wrong
with the theory or the facts.
2. The number of capitalists will inevitv
blv decrease.