larger claims upon the Church to-day in the management of the great problems of the reaching and training of the young, more general Bible study and better methods for the same, evangelization, social service, and missions both domestic and foreign, will be met by the working forces in our churches under the leadership of ministers thus equipped. New and improved methods in these various departments of Church activity will be suggested to their fruitful minds and able hands.

The mental and physical health of the individual will be earnestly sought, but for the wider and further purpose of bringing the man or woman so helped into the class of active workers for the Kingdom of God. The restorative work will be kept where Jesus put it — where the state or any other agency keeps its hospital work. However, it will be truly in operation, this distinctive work of reaching and helping the invalided, but it will be always with a view to take them from their couches and set them in the ranks again or if they have never been in the ranks, never to cease efforts until they are brought there.

3. There will be coöperation on the part of the Church with all existing man-saving agencies together with a union of the divisions of the Church, with the distinct purpose of saving every man and the whole man.

In working along the lines of religious psychotherapy the Church will soon realize her need of securing help from agencies outside her peculiar sphere, from which she now, unfortunately, stands in almost complete isolation, so far as actual coöperation is concerned. Some of these agencies are at work on lines which the Church deemed almost exclusively her own: education, philanthropy, healing.

The scientific knowledge gained by the minister or Christian worker will bring him into sympathetic relationship with educators, charitable organization workers, philanthropic endeavorers, and physicians of whatever description who will be most happy to render him help efficiently and promptly to a degree and in an amount that the Church itself in many cases could not provide.

Here and there are evidences of the realization of such coöperation. The psychotherapeutic work thus far done by minister and physician together, whether in close bonds, as in the Emmanuel Movement, or simply in conference together in individual cases, as Huckel instances, proves the helpfulness of such joint work. We have hinted at a religious psychotherapy which is pretty sure to develop and stand for itself, that will in due time justify its name. We now use the name by sufferance. But even in working itself out and when established as a distinct therapy, it will ever need to be in close touch with a scientific psychotherapy. Its methods of investigation and practice will be on its own ground, but it will always be glad to receive any light which science can bring to it to help to discover its depths and measure its exceeding wide domains.

For the young he will seek help from the school, the children's department of the public library, the playground, boys' and girls' clubs, the Sabbath School, young people's societies, and, in cases, the Juvenile Court and the milder forms of reform institutions.

For the adult he will seek assistance from bureaus of employment, the public library, the Young. Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, men's and women's organizations in the

Church, forms of industrial, civic, and social work, and in case of those not immediately reformable, the arm of the state's department of justice.

The divided branches of the Church must be united for this work to do it effectively. Some churches will possess some facilities not possessed by others for this work. Some ministers will have qualifications for service on these lines which are not possessed by others. Churches should join in conference and discuss how the greatest helpfulness could be secured in these spheres of service.

Varying interpretations of the Bible have led to a division of the Church. The application of psychological principles to pedagogy and the scientific study of the child is bringing order out of chaos into our systems of education. In a religious psychotherapy the churches have a common agency and this, with the remolding of other phases of religious work, particularly its pedagogy, will tend to bring the divided cohorts of the Christian Church together. Before the freshly and more widely realized needs of man and the simple and effective ways these can be met by these reconstituted activities, the churches may lay aside their jarring shibboleths and unite to reach, instruct, and build up men, spirit, soul, and body. There need be no contention here, for the book of man's psychophysical organism and his needs will point the way of practical ministration at the hands of the Church.

The denominational church in thus uniting for a wider and more thorough work will perhaps have to surrender some of the exclusiveness of her pride in her peculiar type of piety and in her separate history, redolent with traditions which have become very dear

but in their place it will gain a healthier, broader-minded and nobler soul passion for helping humanity, that will prove its divine origin and heavenly destiny by making itself fearlessly aggressive for the realization of the Kingdom of Heaven here and now.

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