No teacher in the history of the world ever occupied a lower place in the respect of men.

So deep is the pit into which the modern minister has fallen that no one attempts to get him out.

He is abandoned by the world.

He figures with the starving children of Russia in appeals to the charitable an object of pity.

The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, but the shepherd also looks up from his pit of poverty and neglect, as hungry as the sheep, hungry for the bare necessities of animal life.
This is surely a tragic position for a preacher of good news, and a teacher sent from God.
If the Christian would know how far his Church has fallen from power, let him reflect that, even after the sorrow and desolation of a world conflict, there is no atmosphere in Europe rendering the savagery of submarine warfare unthinkable--utterly unthinkable to the conscience of mankind.
Mr.Balfour and Lord Lee make a proposal to end this devilish warfare; the French oppose; newspapers open a crusade, here against France, there against Great Britain; the vital interests of humanity are at stake; the door will either be opened to disarmament or closed against peace for another fifty years; and Christ is silent--the Church does not lift even three fingers to bless the cause of peace.
Why is the Church so powerless?
Why is it she has so fatally lost the attention of mankind?
Is it not because she has nothing to give, nothing to teach?
Morals are older than Christianity, and sacramental religions as well.