_For the recognition of the Golden Rule (Matt. 7:12) and the teachings of Christ as the supreme law of society and the sure remedy of all ills._ The ministers of the city feel much the same way about the effects of the parliament. Rev. A. E. Monger, pastor of the largest Methodist church in the city and one of the promoters of the movement, says: “Since the campaign there has been crystalized in the churches a sentiment of responsibility for the welfare of the laboring man. The laboring men have found that the gospel does have a message against the great sins under which they are struggling.” As a further evidence of the parliament’s lasting effect, Rev. John G. Benson, another of its promoters, may be quoted: “We are getting requests from every quarter for a repetition of the parliament.” NEW RECOGNITION OF SOCIAL CHRISTIANITY In religious periodical literature two high notes of social significance have recently been struck. The _Constructive Quarterly_ has appeared from the press of the George H. Doran Company in America and Hodder & Stoughton in England. It is planned to be a free forum where all the churches of Christendom may frankly and fully state their “operative beliefs” and their distinctive work, “including and not avoiding differences,” but making “no attack with polemical animus on others.” The purpose of this undertaking is to afford opportunity for the churches, without compromise, “to re-introduce themselves to one another through the things they themselves positively hold to be vital to Christianity,” “so that all may know what the differences are and what they stand for, and that all may respect them, in order to cherish and preserve whatever is true and helpful and to discover and grow out of whatever is harmful and false.” As it has no editorial pronouncements and no scheme for the unity of Christendom to promote, the _Quarterly_ will depend upon the catholicity and representative influence of its editorial board, selected from all countries and communions, to promote a fellowship of work and spirit. The middle term of the _Quarterly’s_ subtitle—a journal of the Faith, Work and Thought of Christendom—is likely to prove the basis for the correlation of the other two. For long before the faith and the thought of Christendom may be correlated, the churches will surely co-operate in their common work. The _Hibbert Journal_, which for ten years has been the ablest technical quarterly review of theology and philosophy, announces a department of social service. This policy was foreshadowed by the editor as early as October, 1906, in a notably direct and able protest against the church standing aloof from “the world.” He stoutly maintained that “the alienation from church life of so much that is good in modern culture, and so much that is earnest in every class, is the natural sequel to the traditional attitude of the church to the world.”