Excerpt from The Church, the People, and the Age: Analysis and Summary Those who are endeavoring to serve their day and generation will not Shut their eyes to facts. TO do so is moral suicide. Acquaintance with facts and condi tions is essential to the proper consideration of ques tions affecting the life of the individual and of society. There were two facts uppermost in the minds of the editors when the question before us was first mooted. (1) There appeared to be a widespread indifference to the claims of the Church. (2) There were many who might easily be numbered as having the interests of the kingdom of God at heart yet were not enrolled members of the organized church. Concerning the first statement it has been amply confirmed by the opinions expressed in the following pages. As to the second statement there can be little doubt that there are many who, like Mr. Lincoln (see next page), are deterred from joining certain churches because Of the peculiar and complicated tenets professed. 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.