Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume40 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 40
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive era social gospel
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e Die July issues of The Modern Review, editedby Ramananda Chatterjee and published atCalcutta, and The Hindustan Review, edited bySachchidananda Sinha. These are two of thefour great reviews of India, and we were interestedto note that each of these magazines containedamong their leading contents articles by our valuedcontributor, Saint Nihal Sing. To The ModernReview Mr. Sing contributes a highly interestingillustrated paper entitled A Negro EducatorsUnique Ideals and Successful Methods, being agraphic pen-picture of the great work accomplishedby Booker T. Washington. In The HindustanReview Mr. Sing discusses The Negro in Americain a luminous manner. Our readers will call tomind that in the July Arena Mr. Sing discussed thegreat work of General Armstrong in establishingthe Hampton Institute, and the fruit of that work.It is a notable thing for one author to have contribu-tions appear in the same month in three leadingreviews of two continents. Digitized by Google Digitized by Google
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Digitized by Google We do not take possession of our ideas, but are possessed by them;They master us and force us into the arena,Where, like gladiators, we must fight for them*—Heine. The Arena Vol. 40 November, 1908 No. 227 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHURCHES. By Rev. John Haynes Holmes. 1 SUPPOSE that if any one were toattempt to lay a portionof the respon-sibility for the ills, from which Americansociety is to-day suffering, upon theChristian church, he would at once bedenounced as a rabid hater of religion, ofthe order of Voltaire and Ingersoll. Andyet, in spite of the certainty of this denun-ciation, it is just this indictment ofresponsibility which I, as a Christianminister, would bring in all seriousnessagainst organized Christianity. We are living to-day in an age of socialsin—an age which violates in its sociallaws, social habits and social adjustmentsevery moral and spiritual precept of thereligion of Jesus Christ. Great evils areall abroad—evils old, no doubt—evilswh

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