New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-17

q lie uew HE from Judssn hiiis nansied with w. es
pre4sag and moving with tho power OF sae rsinoh
Chris. Finally this sretm crossed the Auahpe oa
sasss oyes are met again those oiams Ths cen
a,e. between lower and higher witnessed ey Asa ~ w
dim twilight Of earliest tines ess been renewed sos
sur westward moving frontier. Tha1 eonnes = 800
over. Tho American Indian, like his hhafea ~ "'Ne
Asia dtseppoars from the worlds theaSre eeNihs ~0
4 footprint behind But another e'n'sse -,
sur door American Christianity on oW w.
srn esass faces the eastern front Of AaA onoe -
A. ,hs sy,r,ds az lryan and Tupnan, th's Hne NOV
struggle between Christian nasonsiin ana "a'1"s
aibss but between races one HAVING Ssv.o" ,ons
circuit OF the globe and the othcr sssno'hs " ',.
when shsy parted entrenehed In hninoVS"is uoN .,
-. 80 ,a.s TAls is our western front Ibe
swing OF long history seems sending IL on
year .xo nt tho end Of our FIRST century We were
engaged In historic review Ioasy ~ sst,.n.a ana
car sseend ss hsye forecast OF our hher'anes an"
a. conditions on which the land OF our promise ana hope
nav ,uly become the kingdom Of our God we arc 70 20
IN and possess land How shall II Dc Done ahfe0
.snces thereto are given to vs. We have NE unth' Is
49,. had only in fuller and with WIDER adap'
toas We have truths incarDatone in Chnshsn he'
"a n "a our privilege the truth through life 70 Its
hshess power BY organizing II in Christian insoeS0hS
TEE MISSION OF THE CHURCH.
l. Ths occupation OF the land by Christian truth ~
.s nat ths peculiar ssion Of Israel 70 disseminate the
ruth Tie had not yet come when It ives 70 care tns
vcrh They conserve and TRANSMIT mat sf"ooslH
charging revelation which God was making 70 humanity
through them But there were two great Fundamentals
trth. Of which they the missionaries from the hrt
yir che personality OF 9od and the responsibility OF man
Pacing toward the worlds doses on the one hand they
declared the unity ana anshor'I OF GOD ana ~"fa S.s
worlds despotss other they announced the moral
Of man. OF those two truths the church 70
osx IL the eonservstor ana herald Each age brings I
own Theological pers The world OF thought seems 70
have boxed tho compass and to-day we are back again on
Hebrew ground That which shattered the ars Of Greece
and the armies Of the thinking life OF to-day
Much Of philosophy strives 70 bury God IN the s@
eophssus natural law. or 70 spirit him out OF MS u
AanNa AfpnenE I'M
tract human vision and too unreal 70 anchof nohah
hope Coo In whom our fsthers believed whose OK
istsnce agency the nerve Of The indueve pnO
ply whose personality has dashed into Wh'ehesS c'es
ess Of touskt As the ocean lashes continents Is 10 the
ear Of much OF thinking the dim murmuf oil feaS
that almost passed from consciousness tne
echo oceans dapsson that hsunts the un'eo sh
evr science or our but no longer hss power W
ooud our philosophy or life The PsnthsRn OF
the sophiss changed into the Agnostei'm OF TINS
generation 1t iueets national science, gives Rt'e
10 our speculative philosophy enters our imaginative hte
.r. Giving optsrsms 70 the essayist and wings 10 the
pn1. ana enesing ned Of morals Il ioosens man ron
spirssasl Connection makes him an actor 10 hnnse tne
world his theatre and maDmou bis goa 30 shps do"h
into popular life.
SIXTY GENERATIONS AS WITNESSES.
but eur duty regarding the truth Ia larger than was
"a .sr. h.oausA our inheritance OF IL ia broader Tho
hoax Of Revelation comes complete II comes also
with the eonsentng witness OF sixty generations ~ -
ours nrs. all Keep the truth defined IN our syooS
Mating 10 receive at our hands, intact and unbrokeh
ia taith once delivered the saints do not REFER
"a tia formal standards OF church not 20 the dis
tyfbuons OF emphasis; lees 70 the phiiosophies that
have been drawn out Of them. But even 90 ueS are
sbu.raoa records OF great struggles and vndcste essen
tai tzuta them stand as monuments Of our history
They are opponents OF crucial periods From their sum
mits aow Of blood bought loyalty 70 Jesus O
pu, Wa are not only guardians. The truth mat is the
mower OF God Is aggressive. We ore not dealers tneo.
iosiesl grain. "Bshoia q sower went forth 70 SOW
re want possession from the river TO the sea- VIC mus
plsnt ground with truth No moral occupation u posS
BILE By n proclamation merely Alexander the Sixth pro-
claimed that this world belonged % the Pope mrugh
spsin But Is was idle o Popes bull inc spanish
Mexico claimed the halls Of the honterums
Tor 81 Peter. but Mexico is waking up 10 ay the eai
shall not hold Francis zsvier rung HIS bell hons ne
Maiabar Coast and baptized IL With holy waoer' ou' "
scuained dry and and in It's heathenisn In nome MS
slonary Journeys In the Northwest come across tho
marks OF Marouete's prociamatons two centuries ago
A Lsaaiug CROSS . broken column hare and vere' AZ
sestd the marvellous with which thae ~ikeriess WIS
claimed for the But The voice of one crying In
the Wilderness lost In tho variety OF hostile tribes
There developed recently some Seency " hhE
the truth ~ people and count eur responsibility enoea
when thai was But the preaching OF The Gospei
implies vastly than announcement Paat lowered
over che churches planted until he reached HE crown
We improve upon apostolic methods. Lei hou'
IRE eounts 10 worth while e>am nat'ons oy we vho@'
sale and give them did the GernanS the slorna-
tive Of baps or death h OF the genius OF Pfotes
tantsm that with souls and nurtores the uta
which first abe proclaimed.
This suggests third duty. IS b the truth IN our
endeayot TO occupy the land IL into Christian
srsre Our church need not blush for her scholarship
Without inyidoas comparison. we may Justly claim na'
Presbytsrianism has always been eminent Tor the inoi
scnco people and the learning OF It's representative
man. Our libraries testify the intellectual activity CT
its ministers many Of ts scholarly lsymen sue "a
ts cylinders presses Tevove faster ara more saa
mora the world reads and thinks behooves as 70 Keep
abreast with this eueksned movement And 10 must be
done not only 10 the language OF the Scholar out m
common letters. saturated with the spirit oil evanseesI
Christianity meeting seept!cism In the homes OF 'he p0ve
Win the self a,sng witness Of the doctrine OF Jesus
8o will best diseo,ics Of n6dsiB by the noble
indirecson Of evangelical literature presenting the AZ
fractions Of the cross and OF Christian living
T. THE VALUE oP CHRISTIAN LIFE.
g. So pass consider the value Of Christian he as
the agency for the occupation Of The and Tor Ohst
When Israel ceased witness for God in foth trans
nued character, she lost her power Apd always
the prosre Of Christianity has had It's best exponents IN
the hves Of the saints 1t must be TO- Only when our
ereeds pass into Of the blood DO they become vital
and organic. When Jesus Christ would make die @uth
amighiy he became They who have crsseen the
truth on their bspners have marched 70 defeat in
nature our everything passes at last
Ints force That Is natures ultima thule. Christian
life IL Gods ultimate. Every fash Of light and every
apsb OF feeling must come &C last 10 that Ths tfuth
has reached its last victory when IL quves In mortal
sesh: whes IL bends human shoulders with the meek
asss on sulplsslon or lights human forehead With
its triumph Of hope, This Is the very cTueoIe OF the
truth; It's adaptation 10 be iuearnate SO you who would
walk With God Garth. you need not follow the Hgna
rags on stormy heights OF debate the torchnghts
Of ecclesiastical procession, but rather walk In low
places OF hsh. where the saints are trsnslanR alth
Into fact You may miss It II yon follow the high
priest, but never n you walk with Simon the cJrenian
.You see the day is past when the Church could say
silver and gold have none" said Innocent the Fourth
eonplaeently to St. Thonas Aqunas as he pointed to
me masses OF treasure which being carried unto
the yatcen. eyes holy father was the saints reply
a ala
na,alytlc Take up thy bed and walk" But thank
Coo his Witnesses have never failed from among men,
There hsve always been those who q, any cost like the
Naeeabees Of old have said "Let us die In our IN
Ngrity." -,
e.tanent reouirenent We speak Of the occupation OF