The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-06-02
A WAVE OF REFORM.
Continued from First Page
1EE- LASS SOT A CLASS.

not q class. They are the people. They
are mankind. They are the only SC
called class that are not a class The
history Of a state, of nation. of an age
is simply the story Of the life Of the
common people. To reach them and to
save them is 10 reach and save the
world To fail 10 reach them is TO lose
the world. In this dark, vulgar mass
lies the destiny Of the race. said that
all other classes are as nothing This
may seem an exaggeration and yet it is
not. The calculation Of different as
tr0nomers give a variation of about a
million miles in the distance from the
earth 10 the sun. and yet this relation of
/ a million miles is so insignificant in the
/ calculation Of the movement of the
planets that it may be thrown aside as
/ fraction that does not interfere with
/ the great final results; and it is possible
/ to calculate the time of an eclipse one
| hundred years from today with either
one of these computations Of the suns
distance. SO in the history of mankind.
We may throw aside a few million
people, who are out of the current of
the great masses, as unworthy of con-
sideration in computing the final result.
In the arithmetic of the universe mil
hon men, more or less, who belong to a
special class, have no appreciate effect
IN the grand total of world destinies
THE DREGs AND FROTH OF LIFE.
Not to be of the masses is to be out of
touch with humanity, ont of touch with
the race. l am sorry for the poor, feeble
minded fellow who is anxious to trace
his ancestry in direction that avoids
the great stream of the race Human
society constantly sluffs at both ends
the dregs at one end, the froth at the
other. The upper crust is as much a
nuisance in its way as the dregs which
fall to the bottom, and the man who
aspires to be of the froth is in the last
analysis no better than he who supinely
sinks with the dregs. There are many
who aspire nightly to enter select cir
Gle of so called high society. And yet |
read the other day Of great whiskered
babe in this charmed circle who was
thirty summers of age, and yet such a
baby that he could not enter upon the
daring work Of self propagation without
assistance. That is to say, the race had
here run down to the little end of moth
ing. All the worlds great men have
come from the heart of the race, from
the masses of the people. There is not
a man whose name is worth the thought
Of the world for an hour who did not
come from the heart of the masses.
We readily understand, therefore, the
ideal Of Jesus when he wrought among
the masses. He sought to leaven the
whole human race. He therefore plant
ed his leaven in the midst of the lump.
1t was not an accident that Jesus Christ,
the incarnate God, was the son of a car
penter. 1t was not a blunder of God
Almighty that this thing happened. 1t
was part of his plan of world redemp-
ton conceived i'll completeness before
the morning of creation. To learn
thoroughly this secret is to probe to the
depth of the mission of Christ. Here his
church must come to learn the ways by
which 1t is to reach and save men.
When with open hearts we grasp this
ministry of humility in the incarnation.
we have touched the inmost secret of the |
heart OF Christ and of the Father
THE P. E. CHURCH'S LAST OPPORTUNITY. |
There was time in the history of the |
Episcopal church when, if its leaders
had had the breadth of heart and the |
wisdom and foresight needed for the
hour, they could have made the Church |
OF England the church of the English |
speaking race for all time; but they re.
fused to understand John Wesley. They |
refused to open the doors of the church |
that it might receive this great, dark,
vulgar mass, toward whom his heart |
went out in undying love and sympathy.
The Episcopal church lost here an op-
portunity of the ages The question
now arises, What church will have the
wisdom, the foresight, the love to re-
adjust itself in this Twentieth century
that is coming to the world needs of the
people? The church that does will be
the true church of Christ, and in his
name will conquer.
Let me say, too, that heaven is the
home of the redeemed millions of the
redeemed masses. But a dear old
brother says to US, The Book declares. I
Straight is the gate and narrow is the
way that leads to heaven; and wide is
5he gate and broad the way that leads to
Instruction. We are told that this is
IN indication that few will be saved and
many lost. Nothing could be further
rom the truth. Jesus was here describ-
ng the condition of the world at the
he spoke. He had no earthly
reference to the end of time and the
lnal results. Hear the magnificent
shout of the Apocalyptic seer as he
ooked at the end Of time, ''And I saw
'reat multitude, which no man could
lumber, stretching away from the
hrone out into the blue of the heavens,
With It's countless host lost amid the
LIQUIDS; from every nation, and every
ace, and every country, and every tribe,
nd every tongue" This is the glimpse
heaven given to the seer. No, nv
ear brother, If you want to avoid the
rowd, If you desire to keep out of the
ush, you will have to go to the other
lace. He'll will be the home of the
elect few. 1 do not say that all the
pper ten are going to hell. Ear from
i But do say that most of this circle
now constituted are certainly in a
air way to get there; and 1 am sure of
ne thing, that the man who is uncom- !.
ortable in a crowd will not find heaven ,
} his taste.
GIVE THE DEVIL HIS DUE.
L say, therefore, unhesitatinglv that
ne Christian church that does not seek
reach the masses is a humbug. It !.
caches nobody. 1t is caricature, it i.
farce, 1t is a swindle In nv soul :
souls believe it is a stencil in the :,
ostrlls Of the Father of Humanity. The !
'oner such churches are torn down and 7
round into concrete the better-the =
7tter Tor the church, the better for y
nth, the better for organic religion.
le better for man. Such churches, as =
'clal clubs for the exchange of social :
'urtesles, might result in good. but I
andlng as the pretended embodiment =
the regenerating spirit of the living =
o. they cumber the ground. The .
'oner we learn this the better. lido
't say that such churches do no good. 1,