The two things are rightly put together.  The ostentation of the home, the tawdry luxury and profusion of fashionable society, creep into the church and set up their standards there, and the religion of Christ puts on a costume in which its Founder would never recognize it.

We are dealing here with the very heart of the trouble in our national life, and the problem is one which must be solved by the present generation of our young men and women.  The social conditions which are depicted for us by close students of the life of our luxurious classes are ominous in the extreme.  The cynical dishonesties and the brutal spoliations which have come to light in the realm of high finance and big business are the natural fruit of such a manner of life as many of our recent novelists have vividly portrayed.  And the wanton extravagance of the House of Mirth would not exist if the majority of the people did not admire it.  The outcry against it is oftener the voice of envy than of moral revulsion.  The cure for this evil, as of most others, is found in public opinion; and the church must educate public opinion to reprove it, and the leadership of the church will be in the hands of the young men and women of this generation.

It will be evident to them that the place to begin is in the church itself.  The heartless luxury of the world will not be chastened into simplicity by a church that surrounds itself with splendor and spends money lavishly upon its pleasures.  They will know that a church which wishes to reprove the vanity and ostentation of the outside world must order its own life in such a way that its word shall be with power.

5.  Finally and chiefly the young men and women who are to be called to the leadership of the church will feel that their main business is the work of church extension.  But they will give to this phrase a little different meaning from that which it has generally carried.  The church extension to which the boards and societies in the church have been devoted is the work of building new churches in promising fields.  It is properly denominational extension.  Something of this kind will remain to be done in the new day now before us, and our new leaders will doubtless have some part in it.  But the church extension which is most loudly called for just now is the extension of the life of the church into every department of human life.  It is more analogous to what we call university extension work.  The business of university extension is not the planting of new universities; it is the projection of the university into the community; it is the attempt to carry the light and the knowledge and the truth and the beauty for which the university stands down among the people; to popularize the higher culture and the finer art.  That is a most praiseworthy enterprise, a most Christian undertaking.  And something very much like this will be the church extension for which the new leadership will stand.  Its aim