incarnation of a universal brotherly love. It will not do to talk and emotionalize over it. It will not do to pass resolutions regarding it, nor to send communications describing its glory, from one nation to another. The thing never will be made a reality except by incarnation, by such actual functionings of the Christian church across the world as will utter visibly and tangibly to men the spirit of a universal trust and love. To abate any of our duty of missionary activity, to call in the foreign missionaries, to reduce the work they are doing, is to stultify our declaration that we believe in a world brotherhood, or that we would penetrate mankind with a spirit of universal goodwill and friendship. Words can never make that real to the world. And if in this day we contract our acts, no expansion of our speech will ever make good our betrayal. We are called by the very facts of the world before us now to enlarge the agencies and visible functionings of the incarnation of love in flesh and blood that goes out from us, to express love and kinship to the nations.

We need the missionary enterprise to-day for these great purposes more than it has ever been needed in the history of the world before. We need it as an expression in the flesh of our conviction that humanity is one. We need it because it alone embodies a true doctrine of race function and race relationship. We need it because it appears to be about the only instrumentality of

Christianity that utters a clear and uncompromised super-nationalistic principle. How hard is our problem to-day in all these lands in dealing with the question of the relationship of Christianity and the spirit of nationalism! Has the problem been solved in any of these nations? While we work at it let us not abandon those great elements in Christianity which rise above even nationality. Whatever else we may surrender, let us not surrender the missionary enterprise. We can hold this fast to-day with no betrayal of our own nationalistic loyalty. And we need it. The new world that is coming needs it. Let us enlarge its functionings, and expand its activities, building up increasingly the bond which we have in it, which carries love across the gulf of race and nation and seeks to make mankind genuinely one. We need it because, in these days of strife and conflict over all the world, it seems to be about the only agency of international service that we possess. We are beginning to learn in these last few months that it is competent for a nation to give money away to other nations. It has been a long, slow lesson for us to learn, and maybe we shall forget it soon again. But we learned long ago and shall not forget that we have open in missionary enterprise free channels for interdenominational and international and inter-racial service. We need these to-day, not to be abridged, but to be extended.

Not only do the conditions of this present hour forbid our considering for one moment the proposal that we should stop our missionary task. We face conditions that issue to us, in the language of this theme, a larger call. And it is not only a larger call to world love, uttered actually and tangibly in human lives, to which we are called now. We need the missionary undertaking undiminished because of the hope that it embodies and to which it steadfastly adheres. These are dark and doubtful days for many of us, when many a man whose Christian faith has not wavered begins to wonder whether after all the dream ever can come true. All around us these coming months, as the shadows darken and those come not back to us who went out from us-all the more in those days will the heavy doubts arise. We need to hold fast to an undertaking that tenaciously grasps the world hope, the confidence that the kingdom of God is to be in all the world, that can sing as some of the lads on the Espagne were singing as they sailed: "My anchor holds. It holds. My anchor holds."

The function of the Christian church is a double one. The church is a witness to possibilities that lie beyond the facts. The church never was meant to be the mere guaranty of what has become established. That has been its shame in past days. It has been thought of only as a religious sanction of the status quo. The real business of

the Christian church has been to witness to the possibilities that were not yet seen, that lay invisible far beyond, that were themselves a contradiction of the existing facts. The Christian church is also the power by which these possibilities are to be made facts, and all facts contradictory to them to be denied and overridden and done away. Both as witness and as power the church needs the breadth and boldness of the missionary hopes. We need to hold fast on the world plane to an undertaking that will not let go the idea of a world brotherhood, that will work for that, and even in these days when mankind is rent asunder, will ignore the chasm and will send out its representatives across the whole world, speaking its message of a world love and holding fast to its dream of a world hope.

THE CHRISTIAN IN WAR TIME

By WILLIAM C. HULL, Ph.D.

WAR

AR is a diversification, accentuation and consummation of all evil. Hence, in war-time, the Christian is trebly intent upon obedience to his Leader's divine command to overcome evil with good.

War makes a direct and overwhelming appeal to patriotism. Hence in war-time the Christian is doubly concerned to apply to patriotism as to all other human virtues the test of God's will and God's summons. He believes that patriotism is genuine, and fruitful of good, only when it is based upon an earnest seeking after and implicit obedience to the will of God; and he recognizes and obeys the call of his country only when he hears in it also the call of his God.

War is a violent and dramatic expression of nationalism, the challenge or disregard of world welfare by national interests. Hence in war-time the Christian is eager to preserve and to realize his Leader's ideal of the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of men.

The evil that men do in war, at home as well as against the enemy, is manifold and well-nigh overwhelming; and it is only through divine grace