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At the commencement of Union

Theoiogioal Seminary the graduation

address Es delivered by the Rev. Dr. Henry oane Collin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. Dr. Cof!ln’s subject was “The Practical Aims of a Liberal Evangelism." He said:- _

Note which word in our title stands

merely in the qualifying position of the adjective' and"Which occupies the position of eminence as,-,the_n:oun. We are first and foreinose .’e`v‘tii»igelicals_- evangelicals to the core of otir spir- itual bolsigs. We own ourselves rc- deemetl by and we worship God in Jesus Christ; wo loyalty hold fast to the Scriptures as thc aullluritlilive self-revelation of God :intl votlfltletitial- 1)' believe tlint, wllctl we-`i‘eatl,tllelii illi- der the t;uidniit-t- ot 'thc spirit of Chirst they are to us the .-;i»lt`-:it-cretl- iting standard of God`s life witii usand of our lifc with one aiiother iii llim; we reverently tiirti to Cnlvairy as the supreme disclosure both ot` the world's tragic sinfuluess and oi' (iod`.-i redemp- tive love, who suffers with and for His Children; we are t‘ouviiit~t-ti that lie who wrought by His spirit in believ- ers of old, renewing. euligliteniiig, sanctifying them, works in our day, bringing light and life and power to all who yield themselves to the Lord- ship of Jesus. We know ourselves heirs of the great heritage of the Christian experience of God which comes down to us hy an unbroken stic- cessiou of apostolic-ally-minded nien and women from Christ himself; and we trace our direct. hereditary through the evangelical reformed church, with whose fundatnental convictions anti purposes we find ourselves in entire uccord. We are evangelicals.

Followers of truth in every ago

must expect the cross of misunder- standing; bitt let us be careful to dis- tinguish between the divine cross which is laid upon us and merited rods for thc back of fools. There is an arrant and intolerant radicalism that looks tlown with supercillious contempt upon those whom it dubs traditionalists; tht-rt- is ti cheap and ignorant ratiicalisiii that disdtiins the wisdom of thc past and looks unappre- ciatively at its formulation of truth because it does not know them well enough to prize them, or lacks that spiritual depth which would find them congenial: there is an egotistic rad- icalism which advertises itself by say- ing that wiiitzli is startling and which rares for sensatioii more than for truth. Such radicalism is fundamen- tally both illiberal and tiitevaiigelical. lludicals of this sort are tliernselves part of thc cross which liberal evang- elicals are t-onipelled to endure. lt is on their account to no small extent

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Though Sickantl Suffering; At Last Found Help in Lydia F. Pinkham’s Vegeta- ble Compound.

Richmond, Pa. - “ When I started

taking Lydia E. Pl'nkha.m's Vegetable

. Compound I was in a

dreadfull rundown , - state of health, had internal trou- ifi' ' bles, and was so ex- ,til tremely nervous and prostrated that if l had given in to my feelings I would ' \`-"é " have been in bed.

gl Al it was] had

` hardly strength at

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feet and what I did do was by s great effort.. I could not sleep at night _and ol’ course felt; very bad in the morning, and had a steady headache.

"After taking the second bottle I no-

ticed that the headache was not so bad. I rested better, and my nerves were stronger. I continued its use until it made a new woman of me, and now I can hardly realize that I un able to do so much as I do. Whenever I know any woman in need of s good medicine I highly praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg- etable Compound." - Mrs- FRANK CLARK, 3146 N. Tulip St., Richmond.Pa.

Women Have Been Telling Women

for forty years how Lydia E.Pinkh¢tn’l Vegetable Compound has restored their health when suffering with female ills. This accounts forthe enormmus demand for it from coast to coast. If you are troubled with any ailment peculiar fo women why don’¢ you try Lydlil E- Pinkhsm’s Vegetable Compound? It V will pay you to do I0. Lyhl E. Pink- ' hm Medicine C0-. LIN. NBII-

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that we are looked upon wlfh Suspic- ion as perverse men who seek to des- troy the faith anti wreck the Church, and it is often due to their ilbexpress- ed utterances that we are counted des- tructive in our aim instead of being

understood for what, we mow, our- selves before God to ;he stri K to be,

loyal servants of~`His church aqel up- builders of His Kingdom. 5,

But love has always borne# the

cross, and we need not expect im- munity from. inisapprehenslou-'_ and opposition on the part of genuinely good people, with whom we feel our- selves really kin in faith and purpose. Wo* can only make plain to ourselves, and try as pcrsuasively as we can to tnako plain to them, that. our liberal evaiigelicalisin has entirely practical niint-i,

The first is t-vaiigclisin, We wish

to state thc Gospel of Christ convinc- ingly to the thinking men and women of our generation. We do not con- sider that we make them whole fol- lowers of Jesus save as we succeed in enlisting their intelligence as well as their emotions. With Augustine we “believe in thinking" and we wish to “think in believing." Conviuced that Jesus is the living contemporary of every generation, we strive to open up a place for Hini. the place of Lord- ship. in the thought of our day. As ministers of Christ we deem personal evangelism our personal duty. bring- ing men. Women and little children one by one under the transforming and enrlclng sway of their and our Master. lu order to accomplish this, we feel that wc must be free to meet thcni upon their own ground. to uunderstand their outlook upon life, to face with them their perplexities, to feel the force of their intellectual difficulties. to disencuniber them ot’ any formulae of Christian faith which obscure Christ and impede their ac- cess to God through Him, to unload from their minds any burdens of out- ivoru doctrine they need not carry that they may submit themselves unhamp- ered to the easy yoke and light bur- den of Jesus Himself.

A second practical aim is religious

education. Liberalism accepts with- out rservo the methods of ascertain- ing and imparting religious truth wliicli are employed in all other de- partments of human knowledge. We do not today divide scientists and philosophers into ortodox and hete- rodox; we think of them simply as competent. or incompetent. We be- lieve that tlte religion of Christ can be made an element in the curriculum of every educated person. And we heartily desire to bring our system of instruction in home anti school aitd Sunday School and college to the same degree of efficiency that has been at-

catioii. We wish to introduce the saine thoroughness. the same open- tninded scieiititlc reproach, the same painstaking loyalty to all the facts which is our ideal in other realms of slutty. Believing that religious ex- pcrieiicti is as normal and as self- vnlidating as aesthetic or moral or scientific cxpcrieuce, we seek fearless- ly to place its investigation before every inquiring iuind, confident; that it will have its own appeal to all whose hearts have eyes.

A third practical aim is the

strengthening of the Church of Christ and that means the upbuilding of the particular communions in which we serve. Evangelicals have always ex- posed themselves to the charge of dis-

' lil ' ‘W in li _ tion of ourfsi}eid:l oi-tier. This is~

ilildlsltzflfig linlardmelm detgperetlitiii :liz applicatlon'o» the Gospel of Christi doctrine or poilty or cnltus, and can'for which a world ,hideous with hate mm.. successfully be cultivated wnerelsnd strife and n-igintni with innu-

there is liberty of thought and flexibil- ity of organization and variety of wor- ship. We do not believe that there have ever been divinely fixed forms of doctrine or sovemment or ritual. That which we know to be permanently di- vine is the living God Himself ln the life of His children. the Holy Spirit who is the continuous life of the Body

lations of theology or its methods of organization or its modes of worship were meant to he binding upon be- lievers for all time. We cannot feel that “metallic beliefs and regimental devotions"-are compatible with the liberty of the Spirits Nor"do we wish to reduce the heritage of- all existing communions to a lowest common de- nominator; we do not desire any com- munion to be unclotlied but clothed

cvangeltcaltsm pleads with out breth- ren in Christ that we bring into a great comprehensive river bed the flow of the Spirit in our respective commuiiions. that the Church's unity may be seen in an unbroken expanse of living water. and its united force be available to make glad the world

A final practlca lalm is the regen-

ot Cm-ist. we can nno no tntiicationlobedience to the Spirit of Christ every in the New Testament that its formu-‘social ill can be remedied. every so-

_all t.hlngs'work together for good to

upon, 'that what is partial may be, _ swallowed up ot- rnuer ure. our; And by reason ot our social evan-

manlty cries out at this hour-the recreation of the ideals that prevail in industry, tn politics, in intema- tional relntoins. in law. in education and in every sphere of human so- ciety. until every social group in- carnates God once manifest in Christ. For this purpose we are Evangelicals, stewards of the good news that by

cial wrong- righted,-every social want. supplied-of the lood news that God, the Lord of Heaven and earth. ls here with us His children. placing all the riches of His wisdom and power at our disposal for the creation of a new earth wherein dwelletli righteous- ness, and 'that under His leadership

them that make love dominant in commerce. government and every con- tact of life with life.

gelism we are liberals. No Christian can get the present injustices in hu- man society on his conscience with- out acquiring a new sense of pro-.

ness. ecclesiastical fussiness, sacra- mental punctiliousnesswanlsh ln the oberlng, fifth-staggering presence of the titanic task before us to make the kingdoms of this world the kins- dom of our God and of His Christ. When we read in characters of flame and offblood the verdict which a world lying in wickedness is passing upon itself. when we look abroad for help and tiud none save in the life and cross of Jesus Christ. and in the application of His ever potent spirit to patriotism, trade and the personal standards of every human being, we are prepared to fling aside every in- herited tradition and every personal preference that hinders us from com- bining with all fellow believers in the Gospel of Christ for the estab- lishment of His reign of peace and good will. inthe light of what must be done for the' kingdom‘s sake, we are prepared to go any lengths to keep in helpful co-operation on the one hand with those whose crodal rigidity makes them exceedingly intolerant of our liberalism. and on the other hand with those whose faith oniits ele- ments niost precious to us. We are not truly liberals unless w care neatly to go as far as that in both direc-

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loyalty tothe organization because they have cared more for the Gospel than for the institution which exists to spread it. lt. was so in the Protes- tant ltoforniatlon when the Reformers broke with thc organization of the Catholic Chiircli that they might. he loyul to their rediscovered Evangel of Jesus. Liberals are always liable to bc accused of want of fidelity to their coiuinunion because of their freer at- titude toward its standards of doc- trine. But inherently we are not one wlilt less loyal to our churches than their most conservative upholders.

servntion of crceds of politics or rit- uals, we are supremely concerned with the conversation of men, who but for otir liberal reiutcrpretation of beliefs and reatljustmcnt of policy aiitl recon- struction of worship would ho lost altogcilicr to tho organized Clturch.

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Effort of a United Empire

Shall Guru Province Fall Behind? ,

It should not be supposed that contributions of three or four hundred men

a few odd dollars, some bags of oats and boxes of socks constitute our rightful sacrifice. So far not more than 2. handful of people in all this country have any actual realization of what the war means. These few have given their husbands. or their sons to the cause of Empire. The remainder have done nothing in com-

parison With their abilities and their opportunities

rince Edward sland .

This World War Demands the Supreme

Our national life,ou1' peace, our prosperity and our happiness are so depend-

2 ent upon the Well-being_ of the British Empire that only by playing our part in * that Empire can We maintain our fortunate position. '

Up to the present ninety-nine per cent. of us do not realize what sacrince

~ means, nor what is being endured by those nearer to the firing line than We

are. We must give, not only of our material wealth, but of our blood, and not

niggardly, but with a generous handl

None of us wish to part with our husbands and our children, but it is bet-

ter that they should serve the Empire and save our homes than that our enem- .

We may iflniin for ourselves tho title of conservatives in this highest of senses that wo arc hcndlug every cn- . ergy on bolinlf ot' tho church through the coinmunlons whore we minister to couscrvo to their memhcrsliip and to their ministry the thinking men of our

age. I

Anti just because of our apprecla-|

tion of the organized Church of Christ, we find ourselves liberals for a fourth practical aim-Church unity. Whcti we look over the existing condition of the Christian Church in our own coun- try Bltd ill the foreign field we are pained at the waste anti inefficiency :lue to disunion. Small churches, whose main effort is directed to the sordid struggle for economic exist- ence and forced to conipe-'te with cliurches equally small. present too

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means perfect slarching,

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Laces, dainty Din'tities,deli- cate fabrics, Lace Curtains

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Lillputlan an opportunity for Chris- tian service in tlielr membership or ntinistry to appeal to a malt of any tliincnsioiis. and they cannot adv-4 f|uatcl,v serve the spiritual needs 'Ji' tht-ir roinniiinities. As evangelicals. we realize the existing splritnul iiulty of the (.`liurch underneath all the difiereiices of the communlons in , . which the Church ls organized; antl we long to see that unity expressed

his solidarity with every other, and which shall enable the leaders of the Church to plan its work and order its forces to meet all the needs of the so- ciety it must transform into the King-l lom of God. As liberals, who accept' the results of sclentlilc investigation into the origin and essence of the Christlan Church. we do believe ~ that its divisions have s excuse ln the light. of our knowl edge. We accept the that

our Lord Himself gave stitutlon to the Church,

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ies should triumph and all that We hold dear be taken from us.

“For Romansin Rome’s quarrel

Spared neither land _nor gold, Nor son nor w1fe,nor limb nor life,

In the brave days of old

The 55th Regiment still requires two hundred men from this Province.

These men must be furnished at once, and must be recruited from P. E. Island homes. We cannot ask strangers to take our places. The duty before us is clear, however hard the part may seem. Some will lose their lives; others will be maimed; many will return.

MEN OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND-Once upon a time there was a

than who said that he would rather be ahve coward than a dead hero. ~ >-

i’f-‘f~"=»”-‘f~='»=°f»‘=»'-»i‘l '-‘f»=‘='2‘f-‘=’»=‘='-»‘-i=2=‘» What is Your Choice int the Present Time ?

t The uestion is Up to You Today!

m=:cRU1'r1NG oFF1CERs=

Major C. Leigh, Heavy Brigade, C. A,

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