is bound to stop nowhere short of the extended socialization of wealth, with the passion of the Cross, with the fire of the Spirit. Does it mean nothing that our Whitsun Altars glow with red? Might not the Red Flag find itself at home there?

The Church is at the parting of the ways; before long she will have to declare herself for or against the socialist movement. She can not remain neutral, because she is composed of human beings. It would be a tragic blunder if she should repeat her successive choices in history, and constitute herself the defender of the economic status quo. Modern critical study has given a new actuality to the Teachings of Christ. Is it not a Christian hope that the Church may recover that first ardor which filled those eager disciples at Jerusalem, on whose brows the Spirit still lingered in living flame?

If the Indweller guides her, some of us can not doubt the answer. The overflowing love of God, of which the Whitsun Gospels speak, will inundate her heart, and all jealous separateness in outward possessions as in the inward parts, will be swept away. The Spirit shall bring to our remembrance all things, whatsoever Christ has said unto us, and we shall know the peace that is not of this world. Jesus the Door, Jesus the Shepherd, shall open the way to a new social life of economic equality and shall guide us as we enter in.

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Antiphon: And they rest not day nor night, saying Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to

come.

V. Hallowed be Thy Name,

R. On earth as it is in Heaven.

Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast given unto us Thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of the Divine Majesty to worship the Unity; We beseech Thee that Thou wouldest keep us steadfast in this faith, and evermore defend us from all adversities, Who livest and reignest, one God, world without end. Amen.

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HE Year of the Church draws to an end.

TH

The varying contacts of the Divine with the human celebrated by the seasons as they pass, converge toward their centre and climax,-the contemplation of the Divine Nature, as it exists eternal, self-sufficing, uncreate.

A right conception of God is the greatest need of humanity, and it should be the first object of human desire. That such was the belief of Jesus is made clear by the sequence of petitions in the Lord's Prayer. "Hallowed be Thy Name!" A name is an idea or definition of a person or thing, and the hallowing, that is, the sanctification and exaltation of our idea of God, is to be our first aspiration. This aspiration heads the great group of impersonal requests which, contrary to natural instinct, precede the demands for physical sustenance and even for spiritual well-being.

In no wise is this prayer more truly the Lord's Prayer than in such contradiction. Dear Father in Heaven, give us our daily bread; forgive us our sins, deliver us from evil: our own needs clamor to Thee, and we can not pay attention to anything

else till they are satisfied. Then, for we do really and honestly want a better world, may Thy Kingdom come and Thy Will be done on earth. And when all these things are accomplished, perhaps we shall find time to be concerned about our theology, and anxious for the hallowing of Thy Name. . . . That is a familiar type of prayer, not irreligious, much better one fears than the average, and quite in accord with the idea held by some radicals and also some psychologists of the sequence of our needs. Only, it is not the prayer of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

That any human conception of God is final, who would dare to claim? What eternity, or even the future course of history, may reveal, who would dare to prophesy? Peering back to the beginning of racial life, we see man's thought about the Supreme Power continually changing; the very name varies today from country to country, nor can God be etymologically recognized in Dieu, Allah, Jehovah, or Bogh. In one sense, man discovers his God, in another he creates Him; the conception of Deity is always deeply affected, if not produced, by the social and economic conditions of the age.

The Lord is a Man of War: the Lord is His