# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1913_S178
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

178 Kitchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

brand of current polities not being specified by the professor, the natural
assumption being that tlie brand is that advocated by himself. In dis-
cussing various plans, he thinks it would be best to devote a year or two
to a. social survey.“ Professor Kent has further said in giving expression
to his views: Personally, I am inelined to think that we still devote al⸗
together too much attention to the study of the relatively unimportant
kacts and teachings of the Bible, and thereby neglect those vital elements
which have their indispensable and practical message for the men and
women of to-day.“ In the October last number of the Sμπανοοσ
UMagasine of the M. E. Church South, there is an article on Socializing
the Gospel Message, by Henry Beach Corre. The Sunday-school teacher,
he says, will teach that the scholars must exemplify regenerate nature
by living according to the Golden Rule, and adds: He will also contend
that the mayor of his city and the city fathers shall conduct the affairs
of the eity in aecordance with the same rule. He will show that the
owners of the gas and water works, of the electrie light and street rail⸗
way, must do the same. He will hold that owners of property in con-
gested districts will, by following the same law of love laid down by Jesus,
see that their tenants have fresh air, pure water, and hygienie surround-
ings. He will show that employers of labor will give their employees
a. living wage, reasonable hours, and healthful conditions under which to
work. He will deny the right of capital to exploit labor for gain alone
as the Israelites were exploited by the Egyptians.“ Und so geht das
weiter. Die Resultate der „höheren Kritik“ sollen verwertet werden. Christi
Gottheit wird geleugnet; er war der älteste Sohn Josephs. Mit der Er⸗
lösung und Wiedergeburt ist es nichts. Es gibt wichtigere Dinge zu lehren.
„The Sunday-school of the future will make Christianity and good eitizen-
ship interchangeable terms.“ Religion will be defined as the individual's
attitude toward himself and his fellow-man, and not as the acceptance
of a particular creed on a certain day.“ „The task of the Church is not
to save men, but to make them, to develop the divine potentialities latent
in each individual.“ — Da bleibt vom Christentum gar nichts, von irgend⸗
welcher, auch nur heidnischer Religion, sehr wenig übrig. So begehen Leute
in dem Wahn, die Kirche zu bauen, den fürchterlichsten geistlichen Mord.
E. P.

„o Any One Seeking to Be Moderator — No!'' Unter dieser überschrift
führt der Continent aus: Jetzt mit dem Frühling kommen die assemblies
und damit die Scharen derer, die vor lauter Ehrgeiz moderator werden
wollen und in solcher Weise danach trachten, daß sie nicht Christi Sinn
zeigen, sondern den Sinn jener Leute, die immer begehrten, obenan zu
sitzen. „To be sure, we must admit that good men do these things —
propose themselves for advancement and recognition in the Church; but
they do so not because they are Christian, but because in this spot they
areé not Christian. It is vain to quote, as has been done in General As-
sembly by way of apology: If a man seeketh the oflice of a bishop, he
desireth a good work.“ A Presbyterian knows that bishop does not mean
moderator. In the apostolie age the bishop was simply aà hard-working
pastor, and whoever desired the office desired it not for honor's sake, but
kor the sake of service. The moderatorship, in contrast, is a place of
honor pure and simple. Whoever says he seeks the position for the sake