ABSTRACT
The popular notion of Divine Service makes it consist of a multiplicity of so-called "services", which are too often no service at all, but recreation or sensuous enjoyment to those engaged in them. The kind of society which allows its children to be befouled and degraded and brought up in an atmosphere of crime, is the kind of society that is likely to be dealt with by a millstone and a rope. If it uses its fresh human material as manure, it may flourish in a rank way, it may shoot up a coarse and luxuriant growth, and it may yield a crop of millionaires. An efficient contingent of such an army exists, or should exist, in the churches of every denomination. It may seem inappropriate, and in strict sense impertinent, for a student of science to feel strongly on such topics, but it is an inappropriateness not without precedent.
