formed when done with a cordial regard to the welfare of the whole society." After all, the work to be done is in the last degree humdrum and unexciting, but nevertheless in the first degree important. The great social and industrial problem becomes reduced to the simple question of the common man and all men performing common and ordinary duties from the uncommon standpoint of every man looking not merely on the things of his own welfare but also on the things of others. Bishop McConnell has well said: "In those material readjustments which we feel must be made before the kingdom of God can fully come we too often think of the consummate stroke to be accomplished under some vast leadership. Quite likely the transformation will really come as ordinary men become willing to take upon themselves the little sacrifices involved in the readjustment. To shake a land loose from the clutches of an industrial system which may be clearly iniquitous requires not only the leadership of some unusually strong man, but requires also, and much more, the response of public opinionand yet public opinion is nothing but the sum of private opinions. These private opinions too often rest down upon the petty selfishness of this and that particular individual. We say repeatedly that this or that

reform will come when the people want it. This can only mean that the Kingdom is delayed by the unwillingness of the ordinary citizen to bear sacrifices which may strike no one in particular very heavily. And the sacrifices would in all probability not have to be borne very long, for any movement toward social righteousness must in the end work for the general good. The difficulty is the old, old unreadiness to do the ordinary. We would prefer the larger sacrifice, but the opportunity for the larger sacrifice may not come." The duty of the social aim and the Christian spirit in the common things of every day must become a privilege. Then the ordinary will make for the extraordinary, and the angel of the commonplace will grace with love and justice, truth and righteousness, the new social and collective, industrial and economic order.

4. The Privilege of Commonplace Duty in Politics and Citizenship.

If we turn our attention to politics, the problem again is that of elevating the duty of the commonplace to the plane of privilege. Great movements are necessary and have their place, but basic to all is genius for the homely and commonplace duties of good citizenship. Pure politics and good government mean pure men and good citizens industrially doing, with

the social aim and Christian love, the ordinary duties of every day. Quoting again from Bishop McConnell: "We hear much of the need of Christian patriotism, and of the duty of Christians to redeem politics. How is this to be done? Must some prophet arise to enlighten our minds with profound political principles? Do we need a political seer to arouse us to new insight? Must some mighty genius arise to show us how to apply the principles of Christianity to modern life? No! all that is needed is just the willingness on the part of ordinary men to work their moral insight out into political practice. As it is, cities have to be repeatedly reformed to cleanse them of wrongdoers in high place. The reason is that the reform is spasmodic. The people rally with great indignation and cast out the offenders. But while the offenders are cast out with political fervor which catches public sentiment up on the wings of eagles, they come back by the ordinary power to walk. They come back simply because there is not enough moral determination on the part of the people to attend to the very homely tasks which must be performed if the political life is to be kept pure. Purity of political life comes as purity of a city's streets comes— by the willingness of numbers of persons to do the work day after day which makes for

cleanness." The number of people who will follow the brass band procession with lusty shouts of enthusiasm is altogether too large in proportion to the number who make the everyday, commonplace duties of citizenship a privilege, doing them heartily as unto the Lord.

5. The Angel in the Commonplace and the Modern Conquest of the World.

So it is also in the task of world evangelism. A militant, world-conquering Christianity must have great leaders, capture strategic centers, lead armies to battle, have large constructive programs, and face the problem of the evangelization of the world. There is likely to be a time in the awakening of every non-Christian nation when the clock of destiny shall have struck; and this is the time to rush recruits to the field, to pour in our wealth, to plan large things, and to concentrate and magnify our endeavors for the molding of a plastic people in the ways of God. The spontaneous breaking up of old customs and habits of life, the turning away from the past, the surrender of the old thought life in philosophy and religion, the feverish restlessness and discontent that turns to the future and the outside world these things, which even now are occurring in certain nations of the Orient, are

God's way of knocking out the side of the universe to make an opportunity big enough for Christianity to make an advance worthy of the sacrifice of the Son of God. But a militant Christianity can do the world tasks only when it is a Christianity that does the ordinary things that make it true to itself. To live so that Christianity will have good credit at home and abroad, to seek out and to save the foreigner and the heathen who have come to our doors and who are allowed to estimate our civilization and our Christianity by our vices rather than our virtues, to give as one who holds himself a steward of the Lord, to behave as a fellow worker of God, to make our home church light and power and the gateway to life, to make our community Christian in fact as well as in name, to make our business serve not merely ourselves but society as a whole, to make politics and government clean through fidelity to the humdrum duties of citizenship, to make all life sacred as a calling divine, to do all things heartily as unto the Lord, to make duty a privilege and find the angel in the commonplace-these are the life, the vital breath, the sinew of conquest, the indispensable foundation and reserve for worldwide industrial transformation, universal social reconstruction in conformity to the Sermon on the Mount, national greatness