The Crusading Church at Home and Abroad

The first fifteen years of the twentieth century may some day be remembered in America as the Age of Crusades. There were a super-abundance of zeal, a sufficiency of causes, unusual moral idealism, excessive confidence in mass movements, and leaders with rare gifts of popular appeal. The people were ready to cry "God wills it" and set out for world peace, prohibition, the progressive party, the 'New Freedom' or 'the World for Christ in this Generation.' The air was full of banners and the trumpets called from every camp. It was a brave time in which to be alive

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