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 FUNCTION OF THE CHURCH 233

ducted churches are already working on very much these lines. This outline possesses system, and, if worked to, would induce a thoroughness which the work of the ordinary church does not have.

In order to become an Educational Church, the ordinary church has but to give itself heart and soul to the perfecting of the ethical and religious life of its members, to look upon the children as worthy of skillful help, and to test itself by its ability to send forth into society men and women free from ethical crudeness, devoted to the fulfillment of their highest ideals, and aglow with that deep and wide sympathy which is religion.

E. M. FAIRCHILD. TROY, N. Y.