Messages of the Men Complete in Seven Volumes; including the Revised Reports VOLUME I Congress Addresses FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF NINETY-SEVEN, James CLAIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION ON THE MEN OF CHRISTIANITY AND GOVERNMENTS, J. A. Macdonald, 373631 THE CHRISTIAN CONSERVATION CON GRESS WILLIAM T. ELLIS If anything was needed to impart a deep note of seriousness to the Christian Conservation Congress of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, which met in Carnegie Hall, New York, April 19-24, the Titanic disaster would have supplied it. The solemnity which all the world felt because of this tragedy was intensified for the delegates to the Congress by the consciousness that in their representative capacity they were concerned with the affairs of two worlds; the social order that now is, and the life beyond, which stalks so close to the life that now is. In this spirit it was inevitable that the great issues of humanity and eternity should be faced. There was an oft-expressed and all-pervading sense that the present is a time of crisis in this western world, and indeed throughout the whole earth. The industrial and commercial, the social and political and religious problems that teem in our day were driven home one after the other to the delegates, but always with the assurance that the last word for their solution remains with the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Congress was a gathering of statesmen. The quality was higher even than the enthusiastic friends of the Congress had expected. Most of |