The call to put our times into the hand of Christ is not one that we can lightly put aside. It is not a matter that concerns us alone whether we are relieved or not from jthe handicap brought upon us from the Past, the Present and the Future. Mr. Lothrop Stoddard has just published a book on the Revoit of the Under man la which he has. gathered the results of scientific inquiry during' the past few decades—researches biological and sociological. He concludes that in the happiest lands of Christendom less than 15 per cent. constitute that "thin red line of Rich, untainted blood" by which alone civilization is defended against anarchy and chaos. To that small percentage most of you here belong, or you would not be in this city and in this church. With this responsibility upon you, dare you go into another year, burdened with the handicap that time can bring from Present, Past and Future, when you can put all your times into the hand of Christ: the gift of Mary, when she broke} box of alabaster. "No advantage here for the greater number" growled disciples in criticism.
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