Professor Herron of Iowa College, at a Monday lecture, November 28, 1898, spoke on "The Conflict of Christ and Christianity."
The speaker said in part:—
The religious problem of to-day, which has already waited with over-patience for the Church, is an economic problem; it is not a problem of more churches and church members. It is a problem of how to make human life more sacred, valuable, and respectable than the abundance of things the individual or the nation may possess. Among all classes there is a growing feeling that some sort of a new religious movement is the sole hope of a peaceful social revolution, The revolution does not wait for what we call "clear thinking," which term has become the familiar cant of hypocrites and cowards; nor for the want of analysis, which has become a sort of an intellectual hysteria, exhausting to the moral nerve of both teacher and student; but for the want of spiritual adventure, which alone achieves progress and makes right. The social conscience craves a religion, the social shame and woe cry for a salvation, the world waits for a faith, for which men are once more ready to die or live with equal joy.
