Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — Christian Work In Cities Needed. [ARTICLE]

Christian Work In Cities Needed.

In the extraordinary waking up n t religious forces which is now being witnessed throughout the world, the attention that is being paid to tha cities is of first importance. The churches appear to realizf that they have only been playing .at the city problem. In its bigness and far reaching consequences they are only now beginning to grasp It. There is an graver question confronting, twentlithcentury Christianity than this one of how to effect the rescue of the city from the forces of evil which have their strongholds therein. • n We read about educational missions, and medical missions, and missionary exploration, but are maid not forget that underneath it all one atae3 3 to bring salvation to Il£et men.