This is, in fact, the essence of the new evangelism to which the young men and women of this day are called. Their business will be to take Christianity out into the field of the world and set it at work. It is for this that the leadership is intrusted to them. The church has been a long time coming to this, but it seems at last to be arriving, and the young people of this generation will be summoned to the great undertaking. Surely they may feel that a high honor and a heavy responsibility are thus put upon them. It is the most heroic enterprise to which the sons of men have ever been called. Not all of them will respond to the call. But we may hope that there will be found among them a goodly minority to whom the appeal will come with commanding voice, and whom we may hear answering: "Yea and amen! The work is ours, and we will not shirk it. It is work worth doing, and it can be done. To make a better world of this is the best thing a man can think of; and we believe that Christ's way is the right way. It has never yet had a fair trial, and we are bound that it shall be tried. We know that we shall not make ourselves rich or famous in this undertaking; but we shall see the load lifted from many shoulders, and the light of hope shining in many eyes; we shall hear the din of strife changing to the songs of cheerful labor; we shall share our simple joys with those who know that we have always tried to make their lives happier, and who cannot choose but love us; we shall find life worth living, and we shall die content." Footnotes [1] _Through Nature to God_, p. 189. [2] _The Victory of the Will_, p. 213. [3] _First Principles_, p. 14. [4] _Ibid._ p. 20. [5] _First Principles_, pp. 99, 100. [6] Quoted by Walker in _Christian Theism_, p. 47. [7] _Christian Theism_, pp. 40, 42. [8] New York _Independent_, September 12, 1907. [9] Micah iv, 5. [10] I do not include Confucianism, because it is, primarily, a system of ethics or sociology rather than a religion; and also because it seems to have no missionary impulse, and no expectation of universality. [11] _Permanent Elements in Religion_, p. 143. [12] _The Unknown God_, p. 228. [13] Professor D. M. Fisk. [14] Acts ii, 44, 45. [15] Matt. vi. 5, 6. [16] James v, 16. [17] Rauschenbusch: _Christianity and the Social Crisis_, pp. 93, 94. [18] Page 182. [19] _The Social Gospel_, Harnack and Herrmann, pp. 216, 217. [20] _Essays and Addresses_, p. 194. [21] _Essays and Addresses_, p. 189. [22] _A History of the Reformation_, vol. i, pp. 85,86. [23] _Ibid._ pp. 87, 88. [24] _Op. cit._ p. 96. [25] Seebohm, _The Era of the Protestant Revolution_, pp. 57,58. [26] _Op. cit._ pp. 327, 328. [27] _The Philosophy of Religious Experience_, by Henry W. Clark, pp. 234-236. [28] Rauschenbusch, _Christianity and the Social Crisis_, pp. 414-416. The volume is one that no intelligent student of present-day Christianity can afford to neglect.