Vocations Within the Church (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Vocations Within the Church Religion still remains the world's chief social and moral dynamic. And probably at no former time has the need for a vital, aggressive, clear-visioned church been as great as to-day. The very unrest and revolt of great masses of people such as characterizes the present has in it an element of promise. For dissatisfaction with things as they are is the first step toward making them as they should be. Antagonism is better than indifference, and active opposition than inaction. Stupendous is the task which confronts the church. More than half of the people of our own land neither belong to its membership, attend its services, nor support its enterprises. Millions of children are wholly without religious instruction - religious illiterates in an age of educational enlightenment. Upon great sections of our population rests the blight of irreligion, of spiritual indifference. And all this while an increasing number of quasi-religious cults are preying upon the unstable. Nor is the church unaware of its problem. Without defending its past mistakes or shortcomings it is girding itself afresh for new effort. Not satisfied with an awakening to greater zeal, it is devising new and more effective methods. With increasingly clearer vision and wiser statesmanship it is formulating great and worthy programs and with painstaking care selecting agencies for their accomplishment. With rare courage and foresight it is asking for and receiving enormous funds for the carrying on of its enterprises. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.