. Review of reviews and world's work . pos-session of these new communities has sometimes ledto very unseemly exhibitions ; but there has been, Iam told, some mitigation of this curse. Attemptshave been made to introduce a little Christianity intothis business of planting churches. There are thosewho have been bold enough to say that Christianchurches, situated in the same community, are neigh-bors, and that the law which bids us love our neigh-bors as ourselves is binding upon them. It has evenbeen intimated that there is no good reason why theagent of a home missionary society, engaged in pu
. Review of reviews and world's work . pos-session of these new communities has sometimes ledto very unseemly exhibitions ; but there has been, Iam told, some mitigation of this curse. Attemptshave been made to introduce a little Christianity intothis business of planting churches. There are thosewho have been bold enough to say that Christianchurches, situated in the same community, are neigh-bors, and that the law which bids us love our neigh-bors as ourselves is binding upon them. It has evenbeen intimated that there is no good reason why theagent of a home missionary society, engaged in push-ing the interests of his denomination in the new com-munities, should not be a Christian gentleman—ob-serving in his conduct the laws of courtesy and comity to which other gentlemen are amenable. Suchconsiderations have, I am told, been i>revailing in-creasingly on the frontiers. The outlook in that di-rection is more cheering. In the cities, the work of propagandism goes onwithout much reference to Christian principles. Each. REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, denomination pushes its own enterprises with smallregard for the welfare of the enterprises of its neigh-bors. The law that i)revails is the survival of thestrongest. Mr. Fiske says that this is not the law ofcivilization ; that it only rules among brutes and bar-barians ; that as tribes emerge into civilization theycast off the brute inheritance and govern themselvesby a higher law—the law of sympathy and co-opera-tion. But the sectarians still trust in the law thatrules over the lower kingdoms of nature. I have beentold by a pious and devoted denominationalist, whenurging consultation and Christian consideration inthe planting of new enterprises in cities, that com-petition was the right principle for church extension ;that it was idle and even mischievous to try to regu-late such matters by considerations of comity ; thatthe only sensible way vras the way of the most: leteach denomination rush into every promisin
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