services outside the churches. But if he could have seen this service in the First Regiment Armory building, he might not have spoken as he did. The building was given to us for religious services for the Sunday nights in January and although they were wild and stormy, more persons were present than are now in this spacious edifice. I had the honor to be the chaplain of the regiment at that time, and I had two of my best cornet men stand by the door before service and play the familiar tunes of the Gospel Hymns. After earnest preaching and singing, the clergymen went down among the people and got others to help them, and they spoke to individual souls and asked, "Are you a Christian ?" There was one woman there, who, when the minister approached her, almost laughed in his face, but the question "Are you a Christian?" followed her, and when the opportunity came to meet him in the inquiry-room she was there. And she came again and again, bringing her sister with her, and the whole family were brought into the church through the medium of that one service. Successful services were also held in some

theaters.

It has been said here that undenominational movements cannot be very well carried on. We are going to have, in January next, in Philadelphia, in my own neighborhood, union meetings, conducted by the evangelist, Rev. B. Fay Mills, in which seven denominations altogether will be represented. The main service will be held in the Congregational church, but we are going to have meetings in other churches. We are also going to have neighborhoods visited-not with books and pencils, as last year, but we shall take the books of last year and see where the families are that do not attend church, and have them visited. We shall also distribute a tract calling attention to our special work.

The work of this year has done very great good, and is telling upon our city in a number of ways. The other day there called upon the mayor of Philadelphia-a man who is trying to have the rum-shops closed in Philadelphia on Sunday-a delegation of business-men, lawyers and clergymen to thank him for his noble services in endeavoring to enforce the Sunday laws of Pennsylvania. Of the six thousand saloons in Philadelphia, only one or two hundred are now open on Sundays by a side or back entrance. are feeling the benefits of this work of city evangelization. have had their attention called to it, as they never have had before;

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and the Law and Order Society of Philadelphia is now reaping great benefits in connection with the work of Christian evangelization.

Let us not be too hard upon "brown stone." There was a time when you and I thought it was a little hard to sit by a colored man in the street-cars, or go to the polls with him. But the other day we read in the newspapers that the ladies of Atlanta had gone to the polls with them, in the temperance cause, which is to be the great cause of the future. [Applause.] You thought it strange, perhaps, to be put on an equal footing with those men, but when we get used to it, it does not hurt us. And so it is comparatively easy for most here present, who are Christians of growth and experience, to visit and work for the Master. Let people living in "brown stones" know more of this work of city evangelization and realize its importance, and they soon will be following where others of their wealthy neighbors have already led.

We had a conference in Philadelphia last month which was largely attended and lasted for three days, and we are going to have a meeting next week in which prominent men will read papers, etc. We are then going to make preparation for a renewal of the work begun in January. It may be, if God's providence opens the way, and his blessing is upon us, that it will be followed up month after month. We are also going to try, if possible, to introduce into the neighborhood of our brown stone houses what is known as the "King's Daughter" movement. I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Bottome in regard to coming to Philadelphia. She said she was coming to Washington, and, if she comes here I bespeak for her, from the ladies of this pleasant city, hearty interest and sympathy in her work. She forms groups of ladies, ten in number, who meet in their own parlors and who reach out in various directions and bring in others. They consecrate themselves to the work of the Master-the King's Daughters seeking to be all glorious within by consecration of heart to God, and devotion of life to mankind.

REV. THOS. H. MCMULLEN, ARIZONA.

The necessity for co-operation in Christian work by the churches in the United States, seems to be agreed upon, at least by this Conference, if the applause that greeted the addresses upon that subject was indicative of the approving judgment of delegates and

audience. The recognition of this necessity is the natural product of the clear, adequate business-like understanding of the dangers and perils threatening our Christian civilization, both without and within the church, so abundantly indicated in the papers and addresses upon the various special topics with which this Conference has been occupied the past two days.

Perils to the family, perils to the church, perils which threaten this Christian nation and menace her free institutions will henceforth be better understood and more thoroughly appreciated than ever before. However many and imminent these perils may be, the gratifying truth has been demonstrated, that the Christian resources of our country are, if united, and consecrated to the cause of Christ, abundantly adequate to arrest and overcome them.

The great practical question of the hour is that of method in utilizing these Christian resources. If improved methods be not devised; if a new enthusiasm, born of the Holy Spirit, be not infused into the life of the church, manifesting itself in hosts of devoted men and women, and the consecration to God of some of the hoarded Christian wealth of this country-then we have not received the blessing which I have hoped this Conference would be instrumental in bringing down from the Source of all good.

The church in this country has, in the co-operative work of previous years, had little of regular method, but it has, however unmethodical, been slowly but surely cultivating and ripening a spirit of brotherly love, toleration and Christian fellowship, and gradually, but with probably sufficient rapidity, evolving that spirit of unity so necessary for co-operation, which at last enables us (the most of us) to look over, above and beyond creed, dogma, tradition and denominationalism, and clasping each other by the hand, say "My brother!"

This happy spirit of fraternity and loving Christian fellowship is due in no small degree to co-operation in Christian work, and is one of the richest blessings brought from above to the church by such co-operation. Time was, within the memory of most of us, when co-operation even for counsel was unpopular; now method of co-operation in actual, evangelical, personal work is the burning question. Have we not, in this respect, felt the blessing of a greater measure of the spirit of our Lord, so that we all will encourage and engage in co-operative Christian work in cities large and small, as well as in rural communities?

While there is so much we all honor and love, in the zeal, consecration and industry of the various bodies of Christians in this land within their several denominational pales, yet might we not hope for grander, more glorious results, if, as a matter of method, all our Christian endeavor was inspired alone by love for God, faith in Christ, and zeal for our common humanity, absolutely divorced from party ties and untrammeled by denominational obligations?

It would be a sad task for the future historian to write of this century, that sin overcame righteousness because the adherents of the right would not use the best methods of co-operation in Christian work; and still more solemnly sad would be the verdict of the critic of our era who found that such methods were not employed because loyalty to sectarian parties, into which the disciples of Jesus had divided themselves, forbade their use for fear denominational interests would be disturbed.

But remembering our Saviour's piteous prayer "for all them that shall believe on me through their word, that they all may be one, as we are one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us;" and reading afresh St. Paul's stern admonition concerning "them who do make divisions," and his solemn exhortation "to be of one spirit and one mind, speaking the same things in the same judgment," light breaks ahead, revealing a glorious vision of a reunited church under the single banner of the Prince of Peace, led on by no motive but love for Christ and humanity, marching up against every peril that confronts American and Christian civilization, and with a shout of triumph and praise vanquishing every foe.

REV. JOSHUA RUSSELL.

MR. CHAIRMAN, Ladies and GENTLEMEN: The last service that I attended at my home was a gathering of some four hundred Christian people, representing about eight denominations scattered among some eighteen churches. They were gathered with the purpose of thoroughly districting a city of about thirty thousand people, in which there are at least six thousand workingmen employed by a single great manufacturing and railroad establishment.

As I have sat here listening to the methods that have been proposed, I have felt that there was not very much difference between thirty thousand people and a million people so far as methods of work are concerned. For, there is a common human nature everywhere. The little city of thirty thousand or fifteen thousand inhabitants must be reached by essentially the same method by which the city of three hundred thousand or a million of people is reached. I believe that our methods will be successful largely in proportion as they start right.

Listening to Dr. Post this morning, from Beirout, as he held up before us the necessity of co-operation in the foreign field on account of the gigantic forces of paganism and heathenism that confront the Christian church, I was reminded of the words of Dr. Burt, (sainted man!) who said that when he was in the United States as a Christian minister he was glad to be known as a Presbyterian; that when he crossed to the continent of Europe and faced the great divisions there, especially as the line was drawn between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, he rejoiced to be known as a Protestant; but when he stood in the far East, confronting great pagan and heathen institutions, he forgot that he was a Presbyterian and a Protestant, and remembered only that he was a Christian. [Applause.]

But, my friends, this is not, it seems to me, after all, the true source of co-operation. This is simply that to which resistance brings us. I believe there is a source of co-operation which is vital— not external, but vital—not simply the pressure of the atmosphere that holds us to our places and holds life and the organism together, but the vitalizing power which takes oxygen into the blood. I believe that our methods must start with a common life. "We are one body in Christ." And no co-operation will be successful that does not start with Jesus Christ as its heart and living center.

There are certain tests or criteria to which all methods of cooperation must be subjected. Life is aggressive. The most aggressive thing in all the universe is life, and the least aggressive is death. Our methods, therefore, must be aggressive. They must be intelligent, they must be scriptural: they must be flexible, so as to be adapted to emergencies. They must be more than that; they must be practical. It was only a little while ago that a company of physicians was gathered from the continent and from Great Britain. In that little conclave a Parisian surgeon of great