Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s Willards father was ayoung man, a revival broke out in the village ofOgden, N. Y. Out of that revival a Church wasformed, consisting of Baptists, Methodists, Presbyte-rians, Episcopalians and Congregationalists, which,in the fervor of a revived faith, agreed to be knownby no other name than the Church of God in Ogden.If we look over the American Republic to-day, whereis there any organization which so fully and fairly manner C. must stand for catholic, not for Christian,because while the label Christian if absent would notin the least impair the Christian spirit of the Union,while its presence alienates and excludes many Clms-tians in spirit who could not honestly profess them-selves to be Christians in name. With that altera-tion I do not see why we should not find the W. C.T. U. as near an approach to a humanized CatholicChurch as we are likely to see in our time. ITS CATHOLICITY. . Miss Willard decided definitely the essential Catho-licity of her movement when she sorrowfully but
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EASTNOR CASTLE—THE SEAT OF LADY HENRY SOMERSET, WHERE MISS WILLARD VISITED LAST MONTH. represents the Church of God in the United States asthe W. C. T. U. ? All ecclesiastical organizations,whether Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, or Baptist,are by their essence sectarian and sectional. Theyare not national and universal. Of the other socie-ties, what one is there which is at once co-extensivewith the nation in its organization, and which coversso large a portion of the work of the Christian Churchas the W. C. T. U. ? W. C. T. U. NEW STYLE. Of (course, I am prepared to admit that although, asMiss Willard says, two-thirds of the members of allthe churches are women, still no organization canclaim to be representative of the Church of Godwhich limits its members to one sex. Hence, if theW. C. T. U. is to realize its full possibilities, the W.must stand not for women, but for world, and in like She decisively severed herself from Mr. Moody,then wrote these wise and weighty words : For m

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