'My thoughts are drawn into these channels because at this time an organization—one of the many working in the Settlement—the Young Women's Christian Association, is appealing for public support in' its work. Its offering of Christian service is publicly set forward for the understanding and active sympathy of all those in this Settlement who profess themselves followers of the Crucified. I dare to speak thus publicly of such offering of Christian service, not only because of the intrinsic value of the work, which I believe to be very great, but also because of the deeper folk must face in the matter of their own personal service to their fellow men done in the name of Christ, T look out over the world at this, time and see the need of Christ. Great movenrents of thought sweep over the: world, carrying men and women from their old comfortable moorings; new, hitherto unthought-of comforts and luxuries, created by the adventures of modern sele" nee, change the emphasis of life. In our own day the old order change-th, giving place to new. The World War-was-a symptom of. the entire breakdown of the old; the present. world revolutions are symptoms: the building'up of the new. In the
in the flux and change' of our day men and women ery for something that is stable, something' which stands firm in the eddying currents which run'to and fro. In the gloom and darkness which comes when the old gods fall, men-and women ery for light In the break-down of conventions, of old sanctions, amidst the chaos, men and women lock for love. "Who is-that Rock, serene in the whirling chaos; what is that Light, shining in the darkness; Who is that Love which changteh: not fhovgh all things change, but Christ?
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