Turning to the attitude of the Church towards modern problems,
he dwelt on the urgent need of more strenuous thinking, more active and more insistent action in regard to the avoidance, the abuse, and the revolt against the responsi- bilities and duties of marriage ; the responsibilities of the civilized towards the backward races; and the question of armaments. The age of armaments, with its intolerable burdens, its naked international selfishness, and its apparent contempt of the common service demanded by God of Christians on behalf of world-wide liberty and spiritual pro- gress, could not last long. "One way or another it must, change, by thunderous and unimaginable catastrophe, if not by some better way of moral transformation." He hoped, in conclusion, that the Congress would help them to realize how little, in many a place and upon many a question at home and abroad, Churchmen recognized the need of an unflinching application of Christian principles to social injustices, economic problems, and race prejudice.
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