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ment through the co-ordination and co-operation of Chris tian forces.

What the ultimate issue is to be it would be idle to attempt to forecast; but in adjusting ourselves to these conditions it is important to realize that, while other influences are at work in the same direction; these tendencies are in no small measure due to the prevalence of the business type of mind. It would be a mistake to draw the hasty conclusion that this type of mind should dictate the character of our preaching, and that in all cases in which the ministerial and the economic types of mind diverge, the preachers are all wrong and the business men all right. The fact is that we have here two rather highly specialized types, and they should act as correctives to one another. The supremely important thing is that ministers shall not ignore the divergence and that they shall in the presentation of their message under stand, and in some way or other adapt themselves to, the modes of thought of the business man ; otherwise they will find their efforts to be in large measure a vain beating of the air.

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