The Church Ought to Be Sufficient.
By Editor
The Annual Meeting of the National Christian Association will be held at the Chicago Avenue (Moody) Church, Chicago, on May 14th and 15th. The first session will be on the evening of the 14th, at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Charles A. Blanchard is president. Its object, as stated, is "to keep the membership of the churches out of secret organizations, for these among other reasons: (1) Because they are declared to be organized on a basis so necessarily broad as to exclude the idea of Christ as the world's only Redeemer; (2) Because they substitute in their claims, and in the minds of many of their membership, the secret society for the Christian church; (3) Because of the relation of the obligation of these secret orders to the oaths and decisions of courts." But the church of Christ ought to do all this, and if truly Biblical it would do it. This Association clearly shows that