Nobody is a Christian who looks with indifference upon the oppression, the robbery, the manifold and aggravated iniquity, against which the labor movement is a righteous revolt.

The Christian will inform himself, as best he can, regarding this most significant of all modern discontents. He will read and study, that he may be intelligent about it. He will account it of more consequence to be informed regarding the history of the rebellion of the workingmen against their modern bondage than to be learned in all the chapters and the verses which describe the escape of the Hebrew slaves out of the bondage of Egypt. God is in his world to-day as much as he ever was. The morning paper records his administration of this planet yesterday in as true a sense as the Old Testament tells us what he did three thousand years ago. He who believes in God and looks. brotherly towards his neighbors, as Jesus did, will not be satisfied to remain in ignorance. He will both learn and teach.

And by and by, with the growth of disposition and of knowledge, must come utterance. The church is nothing more than all of us. When we all are sympathetically and intelligently interested in the labor movement

the church will be. And then the church must speak. Christian unity is likely to come about not by agreement first in polity or creed, but by co-operation, by working side by side in the labor movement and in every other movement for the general good.

Whenever any man or woman anywhere enlists with enthusiasm and earnestness in any righteous cause, the millennium, the day of blessed freedom, the kingdom of God and his righteousness, comes a step nearer.

BUSINESS AND RELIGION.

CHURCH attendance may or may not be an evidence of Christianity. Christianity. All good people ought, indeed, to go to church. According as they are present or absent, we may guess at their goodness or their lack of goodness. Church-going is a fairly accurate thermometer of religion; it indicates degrees of spiritual heat and cold. But it is by no means an infallible thermometer. Christianity is not proved by church attendance.

Even church membership may or may not be an evidence of Christianity. All good people ought to be members of the Christian Church. There is something incongruous in the position of honest and earnest men and women who wish to know the highest truth and aspire to live the worthiest life, and yet remain outside the Christian society. They ought to join the church for their own sake-to get good; and for the sake of others to do good. Membership in the Christian church I hold to be the

duty of all good citizens. The good citizens who stand aloof do not understand what the church is and is for, being deceived sometimes by our own mistaken definitions, or deterred by our unchristian tests and barriers. Yet I know some most excellent Christians who are not members of the church; and I am informed by business men that the fact of church membership is not by any means a guaranty in the business world of commercial integrity; which means that a man may be a member of the Christian church and yet not be a Christian.

That which is true of church attendance and of church membership is equally true of church orthodoxy. John Wesley said, in his strong way, that a man may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked. Our Lord drew a clear distinction between two kinds of blasphemy, one of which may be forgiven, but the other never forgiven. Blasphemy against the Son of man, he said, is capable of pardon; but blasphemy against the Holy Ghost "hath never forgiveness," even in the world to come. What is the difference? Blasphemy against the Son of man is theological heresy. Whoever is acquainted with the annals of controversy knows

how heresy has centred about the doctrines of the Trinity, of the Incarnation, and of the Atonement; that is, about the person of the Son of man. Jesus says that all that kind of heresy may be pardoned; that a man may be the most mistaken of theological heretics and yet be a Christian. But blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is moral heresy. It is the sin of the man who calls wrong right, and right wrong; who calls darkness light, and light darkness; who persistently, and with rejoicing, disobeys the plain command of his own conscience. There is no forgiveness, Jesus says, for him who continues in that attitude towards God, neither in this world nor in the next. The most pernicious of all heresy is that which contradicts the law of righteousness. No amount of theological orthodoxy makes a man a Christian.

Thus we may take these three significant items, church attendance, church membership, and church orthodoxy, and add them all together, and yet not arrive at the definition of a Christian. The real test of Christianity is not a man's behavior on Sunday, but his attitude and disposition during the days that follow; it is six times more important to be a good Christian on week-days than on Sunday. The real