The literary digest . ure for each its proportionate quota of Army and Navychaplains and to see to it that no one should get ahead of an-other. We have set up about the camps and cantonmentsdozens of discordant altars, a Babel with its confusion of tongues,instead of a Zion, a haven of refuge and peace. There mustbe a conventicle of some sort for every group of organizedreligion, for Irhe Two-Seed in the Spirit Bai)tists, for the Amishwho allow buttons, and for the Mennish who stand stoutlyfor hooks and eyes, for the one-foot-washing Duukards, andthe two-feet-washing Dunkards. Would it have be
The literary digest . ure for each its proportionate quota of Army and Navychaplains and to see to it that no one should get ahead of an-other. We have set up about the camps and cantonmentsdozens of discordant altars, a Babel with its confusion of tongues,instead of a Zion, a haven of refuge and peace. There mustbe a conventicle of some sort for every group of organizedreligion, for Irhe Two-Seed in the Spirit Bai)tists, for the Amishwho allow buttons, and for the Mennish who stand stoutlyfor hooks and eyes, for the one-foot-washing Duukards, andthe two-feet-washing Dunkards. Would it have been a thing to be wondered at if the execu-tives, who had large affairs to administer, should have grownutterlj inipati(>nt and thrown us all out of court? And is itany wonder that the common soldier often turns away in desi)airor contempt from this Babel of shibboleths and abandonsorganized religion altogether? And whal has V)ecome |)atentunder thf! searching test of war-conditions is latent always BISHOP CHARLES D. WILLIAMS. Who declares that a divided Chun-h is sure to break down underthe searching test of any great crisis. This is the common attitude of mind in the average mantoward our chaotic Christendom. A divided Church is sureto break down under the searching test of any great crisis. Adivided Church can not speak with any authority in, or giveany adequate interpretation of, any great tragedy of historysuch as this world-war. A divided Church, rankling with sec-tarian jealousies, could notconcentrate on the stupendoustask of ministry to the spiri-tual needs evoked bj the war—nor can it efficiently meet thedemands of the new age thatcomes after the war. TheChurch during the war prac-tically handed over her wholeministry to the Red Cross andY. M. C. A., which at leastlargely represents the spiritand mind of Christ and es-sential religion. They alonehave stood for a unitedChristianity. It looks as if this lesson ofthe war were beginning topenetrate t
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