We are under many disadvantages. 'The press, the stage, fiction and th cinema lend themselves readily, a1 jin no small measure, to the wide advertisement of the annals of. selfishness, vulgarity, vice and crime. (They will' fit crowns of notoriety land spurious heroism on heads grotesquely unsuitable for halos. [The handicap is heavy, and the incitement of popular applause is denied to quiet endeavour. Yet! those to whom this cause is dear will carry out their Master's mandate because they can do no other.
After all, the survival of Christianity at all is the crowning miracle which cannot be got over. Not with might or wealth, not by the enthusiasm, in any age, of more than the relatively few; yet invincibly and persistently the Kingdom of Christ has lived and spread among men for now two thousand years. We are jeertain that it never will perish, [but we must make more certain than [hitherto that it shall more rapidly swell and strengthen and grow. AB [good Christians and as good citizens,
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