This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CONCERNING PURPOSE AND METHOD The best remedy and the only permanent remedy for any evil is the removal of its cause. That is God's way of dealing with sin in the individual life. He cleanses the heart, out of which wicked purposes and desires have been springing. It is His way of correcting the wrongs of human society. He awakens the national conscience and organized forces of evil are routed. Slavery is abolished, the liquor traffic is prohibited, child labor is forbidden and endless suffering and social injustice are prevented by the removal of their causes from the social fabric of the State. Slowly, but surely, men and women are learning to understand and to imitate God's method. They are being admitted more and more into fellowship with Him, as co-workers in the achievement of His high purposes for the regeneration and the perfecting of the individual and of the human race. But many wrongs remain to be righted. The social organism is still suffering from diseases, the secret of the remedy for which lies in a better understanding and a gradual elimination of those conditions out of which they spring. Among such lingering evils are the hatreds and enmities, the arrogance and the suffering, the dissipation and the privation, the temptation and the sin, resulting from the unequal distribution of the fruits of human toil and skill and the consequent extremes of wealth and poverty, as they are found side by side in awful contrast in modern society. What have the Christian Church and the individual Christian disciple to do with these conditions? What measure of responsibility for their correction falls on them? How may this responsibility be forced upon the conscience of the individual disciple? And what and where is the remedy to be...