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I can imagine how presumptuous it must appear to the clerical mind to find a mere ordinary layman arraying himself against them in matters of theology, and yet a considerable acquaintance with Church life and a sincere desire to understand what Jesus taught has driven me irresistibly to the conclusion that modern Churchianity is not only un-Christian, but anti-Christian. I can find no points of correspondence between the teachings of Jesus, as contained in the New Testament, and the teachings of the modern pulpit. Nor does the life of the average minister of the Gospel differ materially from that of the ordinary man of the world. When the world shouts for war, the pulpit leads the cry. The acquisition of money by the unscrupulous hordes who infest the Stock Exchange is undertaken with the blessing of