The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-16

1et ms system was dream. He did not under
stand the common nature. Several German
philosophers have had that failing. God hath
provided better way for US. The logic of the
cross speaks in ali tongues: and the language OK
love spreads by its divine impetus. Jesus could
not teach the Greeks by means of any other
argument. Love is the only successful vehicle
OF CIVILIZATION, and pillow was never sold in q
country where the messengers of Jesus did not
first go and hold upa erossl Sending vessel
70 Africa is not sending civilization. The trade
IN rum has brutalized fine types of native Afri-
cans. Sending missionary on deck and con-
signneut of liquor beneath Is q mixed civiliza-
ton against which every consecrated brain
among you must fight in legislatures aud jour
nails and pulpits.
We are beginning to hear, like the sound OF
many waters, the tread of the new generations,
led by the minds to whom Jesus has interpreted
the meaning of life. The universal language is
coming. Gladstone says it is not hundred
years distant 1t is for you to make that voice
OF the people the voice OF God! The spirit OF
Jesus must be the interpreter of the meaning OF
al our marveis of modern achievement In the
study OF chemistry you discover that proportion
and harmony are always present There is a
determination in the manner by which two
gases unite to form a third. and leave unused
any surplus Of either which you have tried to
coax into tho combination. We can all see this
and say, "Ths 10 the hand of God"
But the engineer who shall build the
railroad of the next century must know that
he Is no less a creature OF Gods plan, anu
II he builds 1t without prayer and without
understanding that every work is to be the reve-
lation OF God to men, he works as blind force,
when his mind ought to see the glory OF His
service. For the use of railroads is beginning
TO be limited at in carrying relief to Roslyn,
and the genius OF Fulton is finding it's work in
the transportation of grain to starving Rus
slams. The ultimate destiny of matter is to be
the tool OF love, and the last glory OF education
to prepare the way for the kingdom of God.
Already in the oratorios of the masters and
architecture in the cathedrals, the monuments
of love have reached their sublimest expressions
in the service of God. And every art and trade
is 10 be included in the same irresistible and
divine end. All shall shine with unity OF
thought, until every problem shall be solved,
every star observed, every mine explored, every
stone be laid for the use of your brother.
John Baptist had no peculiar mission.
was the mission of us ALTO prepare the way
OF the Lord. We may go on learning and doing
-tunneling the mountains, watering the val
leys. educating the children-and suppose that
these things are an end in themselves. But,
verify say unto you, Jesus and the disciples OF
Jesus shall use these things last, and shall show
their worth by their relations to Him. By Him
only shall our work be tested; by Him Will it be
accepted or rejected Then We would see Jesus
to inspire and crown the life and make the
work eternal.
Since the world began the effort has been in
architecture to find some material that will
stand the fire. But hitherto whenever a great
confagration has started nothing has availed to
stop it. Our wish to see Jesus will be some
where, sometime, answered. 1t is tine destiny of
every human soul to come face to face with
God. We read of Jesus that when he shall ba
revealed His eyes are as a flame OF fire. Will
you work stand the fire? When Moses stood be-
fore the burning bush and saw that it was not
consumed he knew that God was there Before
the flaming eyes of Jesus everything cheap in
your life will be Tapped in consuming fire. Shall
there be left glorious and eternal work, be-
cause we stand in the present before Jesus,
while He tests our growth by the fame of holy
devotion? Then we would see Jesus. Charac-
ter is the supreme thing, and Jesus Christ Is the
Sunrema character.