The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-05-26

dense combination the electric current
, the life current Of the universe. an.
those two guns. wrapped with fhos.
eaghf miles Of cable. bsx-.s1ue the mos
powerful magnets perhaps in the world
: IL II said tha; the crss-Sbar wiil ss.s.a,,
weight Of 20. GOO pounds simply from
the power OF that magnetic current thai
; charged these two pifces Of steel thu,
} bound together. II a crowbar is nlaced
! at the end OF the magnet /, is said ,ha,
] 1t requires four men TO tear il awav
A cannon ball placed at the end. &C
heavy that one MAY lifts il with grea,
difhcuity. not only adheres TO the mag.
net, but several other balls can be at.
tached to this one, one after the other,
and they viii hold sustained in the all
from their single point of contact.
This Is because those two guns are alive;
they are charged with life. Eyervthing
that comes within the radius of their
innuence Is attracted. An ordinary
watch brought within three feet of this
magnet stops stock still II a man
takes sledge hammer and tries IN
strike blow within this radius, he feels
as II he was yielding feather agains,
the wind Ii has the power thus to
reach out and lay hold of that which
moves about it and make il tributary
to its life.
i Just 30 the church that is alive.
charged with the living spirit of God
a-throb with the spirit of Jesus Christ
laying hold OF the lives Of the world
that move about them The church
inst lacks this life current can effect
nothing.
LIFE's HANDICAP
Third-t must touch the whole life of
man, physical as well as social. Mans
body is the temple Of the soul. The
| church of the future must have its hos
pltais. We have literally thrown away
this tremendous power for good. We
have trampfed under our feet the para
BILE OF the Good Samaritan. We have
left to the Catholic church the care of
our own sick members, until it is
| shame that cries to heaven against our
churches and their right to live. There
are conditions OF physical life that make
moral life impossible in our cities
These physical conditions must be
touched with the church's power. There
must be wholesome amusement. and the
training and development of the BODY
all / the PRONUNCIATION of the laws of by-
girae, not simply to the individual. but
to the city and the landlord, until it il
possible for man to live in the streets
OF New York and be an honest man.
saw lately where delicate opera-
tloa had been performed on the skull of
servant girl. She was half witted.
The doctor conceived the idea that the
Cause of Eer mental weakness was sim
ply the pressure of the skull bone upon
the gray matter of the brain. He cut
piece of the skull out, relieved the pres
sure and lifted the skull until the brain
could assume its normal condition. And
when the wound healed the light of in
telhgence grew brighter and brighter
from twilight until full morning, and
she became one of the most skillful and
Intelligent servants in the city. One of
the things the church must do is to lift
the skull from its awful pressure on the
brain. There are people whose hearts |
are SO bound with iron bands that they
cannot throb. There are brains SO
crushed and bruised with the mere |
physical, brute weight of matter that |
they cannot think, they cannot reason,
they cannot find the way of life.
ST. LUKE'S AND THE HOTEL vENDOME.
Fourth-The church must touch the
social life as well. One of the powers
OF the saloons-I have said it again and
again, wish to repeat it again and
again-one of the secrets of the saloons
power Is its hold on mans social nature.
In recent article which l wrote for
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper,
related the fact that passed st. Luke's
Methodist church, on Forty first street;
it was locked, bolted, barred with an
iron fence that bristled against the pave
ments and seemed to repel all who even
passed that way. Within few feet of
this dark and gloomy building flashed
the windows of the magnificent cafe of
the Hotel Vendome. From them poured
a flood of light from the brilliant chan
deliers over the bar, with its cluster of
ESQ electric balls. All that art and
wealth and the refinement of taste and
the highest reach of genius could pur-
chase to entice men was there displayed
Man loves the beautiful, and in the
great homeless city this vast population
that live without homes are denied the
qualification of this divine aspiration;
and, alas! the men find it in the corner
saloons whose thousands of doors swing
Sxy16 Of - |
companionship. warmth, light, beauty.
cheer.
F1fth-This church must be an en-
lowed center of general evangelism.
Must be endowed because the whole
population is always moving. It is i'm
possible to build a permanent church,
save in one or two favored spots, that in
itself can be assuredly self supporting.
This church has no abiding foundation
until it is endowed as corporation
whose life will go on with its permanent
income forever. This must be done, not ,
.or one church, but for hundreds of {
churches in the city of New York. We ,
nave only received 257 members in the {
past three years. Compared with what {
he church did in years past, this is do ,
ng well. But we have had nearly {
thousand men and women to rise in our I
meetings. confessing their surrender to 6
Christ. 6
Where are these people? 1t was i'm
'ossible for our present machinery to
ay hold of them. Many of them have
oined other Baptist churches, and far @
more than have joined this church or e
ny other Baptist church have joined S
hurches of other communions in the L
ity. We are thus required to do work s
f general evangelism for the whole v
ity and for the strangers who fill our t
eats from Sunday to Sunday. To do o
his we must have a permanent endow- t
nent in an institution built for this 8
york. Our membership is a procession. Il
is of the utmost importance that these IL
eople be reached and saved. But to do