The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-03-31
coded thIs resnarSAu:y sEufaA rroisase>.y,
MIRACLES oF MISSIONS.


yelous. Every nation Of earth il now
open 10 the propaganda ot Christian
doctrine. and every nation of earth has
its Christian missionary prociziming
that gospel. Within this period we have
had such remarkable developments as
that of DIR. Clough at ongole baptieins
ten thousand natives In single year,
and the remarkable developments ot the
great inland mission in China, where
hundreds of missionaries are supported
yearly by the voluntary giving of the
Christian world hacked by no urganiEs.-
ton.
To take an illustration mt our own
doors, within our own city Of New
York, there is a single church, with no
rich men III its membership. that sends
out this year into the mission field 100
missionaries. This organization, which
is only few years old. has established
thirty-three missionaries in India, the
Congo Free State, China, Japan and
Hayti, and within the past six months
$l1s,5 has been contributed toward
furthering the Gospel in heather lands,
refer to the remarkable work conduct
ed by the Rev. A. b. Simpson.
CHRISTIAN UNITY.
Third-The growth of unity in the
Christian world within this period of
agnostic phophecy has been most re-
markable.
Twenty-Five years ago the Protestant
churches We're busy fighting one an
other. Now they are busy seeking 10
cooperate with each other in fighting
evil. Cooperation in aggressive church
work is one of the orders of the day.
The temper of the Protestant world is
most accurately expressed by the late
Professor Austin Phelps, of Andover.
He says: 81 was once blue Presby-
terian; | thought Episcopacy a sin and
Romanism of the devil. l now find q
great deal of piety everywhere where
Christ is owned as the living head. ]
work Congregationally because l must
work somewhere, and am neither wise
nor strong enough to work alone, and
am not such a fool as to throw away
nine-tenths of my power for good 10y
trying to work in ecclesiastical solitude.
But could work just as well in half q
uOLtIl ObLcI vi AA4hiA -
life. There is an Episcopal tempora-
ment and Methodist temperament and
Calvinistic temperament, from which
sects grow by natural evolution. At the
| core of character they mean little mere
than red hair or birthinark. The mas
ter will know his own only by the name
in the forehead"
| There has come likewise to be better
understanding between the Catholic and
Protestant world. Today, if any move
ment is started in our great cities look.
ing toward the destruction of evil and
the uplifting of society as Whole, you
may count with certainty on the suppor;
of large and influential element in the
| Catholic priesthood They will be found
by your side on the platform and co
operating with you in every way to fur
ther the common cause.
Within this period we have witnessed
the remarkable reconciliation OF scienct
and revealed religion. Twenty five year
ago the church militant shivered at tbs
mention of science and men tinidll
thought that the remarkable develop
ments of modern science threatened th'
foundations of the church. Today scienc'
is the servant of Christian truth. Toda.
science is the handmaiden of religion
Today the preachers library contains a
many books of science as books of phil
osophy and theology.
NEW LINES OF BATTLE.
J Fourth-The display Of the power Q
adjustment to new conditions, shown b.
the church within this period, has give
! evidence of it's immortal power and it
immortal destiny.
, Within this period the great socia
problem has become the problem of tn
age, and the church has shown tina
3 within its heart there was the principl
4 Of salvation not only for the individual
but for society. The pope of Rome ha
swung the great ecclesiastical machin
1 of the ages into line of battle. II
! champions today the cause Of the masses
t He lays his hand on the church in Franc
l and says to the clergy, "The cause {
the republic is the cause Of the people.
: And whereas once the ecclesiastical m;
s chine stood for monarchy and central
) cation, it has, today, adjusted itself @
- / the D.dIjOl III Va I1ifAilb NSiAipNi ~
! that is to be.
: The church Of Christ has developed
J. liberality in giving within this perio
/. such as the leaders of church life an
n mission work did not dream of twent
S five years ago. Last year we gave abo'
e s4O, ,O00. 600 to home missions and So, ,00C
e 600 to foreign missions.
's All along the line of the Christis
# world within this past decade there b
e been forward movement. There b
4 been remarkab bly, forward movement
l. education. Within our own denominatic
l. in the past two years there has been giv'
a over 81, ,0O0,0G0 to the cause Of high
II education. There has been establish
9s the great University of Chicago, whit
L has laid under tribute the scholarship
re the world and viii be a contribution
st the higher education of the whole worl
l THE AGE o. THE MASSES.
a. Within this period we have had a J
markable development of evangelis
such as the world never saw befoI
ic Men believe, sometimes, when they re
h the past, that the age of Whitfield W
nc the age of power in the eyangelization
I'd masses. It is not true. The past TIVE
as ty-fve years has been the age of remai
1t able development in the evangeizati
OF # masses of people. There is a N
10 now ct work, whose name many OF
~ Go not know, whose meetings are
Z. more remarkable in results than any
ne the meetings of Whitfield or Wesl
n Rev. B. Fay Mills recently held a me
We ing in the city of Elizabeth. n. j. Th
De were over 1900 professions of faith
n those two weeks. All business In
city was suspended. Stores were clos
ne Thirty five saloon keepers quit their b.
rs ness and made confession OF rellgl
lIr. Mills has just closed meeting
he Cincinnati with results equally as
lat narkable. The night that he left 10,
its people filed before him, taking him
of the hand, thanking him for the work
Org had done, for the blessing he had brou
Of to their lives. There are scores OF !
ass today in the field in active evangeii