Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-04-23

methods without change or modifloa-
tion, or the common sense of Ia ptation
TO the present age.
do not mean to change the grand
fundamental doctrines. They never
change. The New Testament will Le
as true a thousand years from now as
it is to-day, and every utterance of the
great pioneer Of Methodism will be as
true thousand years from now as they
were when uttered. But speak of the
method. In this bustling age, In this
age Of quick steppers," If the church
of God does not adopt the methods of
the age and quicken her gait and be-
come more practical, and more effect
i've in her efforts, she may as well
surrender. am an optimist. l well
come every onward movement of our
great country, every new development,
every new invention, every means for
facilitating her progress.
My motto is: step quick; we want
no slow steppers in this age" 1t Is q
mercy to mule wearing his legs out
against the single tree to touch him up.
1t is mercy to an animal being run
over by machinery to whip him up.
am doing my best to keep abreast Of
the age. want to keep up with this
old world. l use our telephone, our cleo
trio car, our lightning express, our
stenographer, our typcwriting machine
and every blessing she gives; but am
trying to wake up the slumbering, and
get every man, woman, boy and girl in
this country to hustle. Every fellow
tap up seems to smile and thank me
and pearten his gait, but when touch
up the average preacher he sulks and
kicks. But l am still hollering: "All
aboard" and If any fool wants to stand
on the platform and grumble, cannot
help it.
The grand engine on the New York
Central railroad, No. 900, stands forth
as to perfection of mechanical genius
to meet the demands of the quick
step" of the age. She is built to 90.
She is built to pull, and when she
couples on to half a dozen passenger
coaches in New York city and runs
through to Buffalo-four hundred and
forty miles-in eight hours and forty
five minutes, she has accomplished the
herculean task for which she was built,
and she stands in her ponderous weight
trembling in the mighty power that has
propelled her such distance in so short
time.
The grand ocean steamers that cross
the Atlantic in less than six days are
marvels of speed and comfort and safe
ty. They meet the wants of the age
and the hour. The lightning presses
roll out the morning and afternoon pa
pers by the thousand in SO SHORT time
that the demands of the age seem fully
met in heralding reports Of disasters
and events across the continent within
few hours following their occurrence.
So the Christian genius Of this age
must gather momentum under the in
fiuehce of the Divine Spirit,.a force that
will carry it forward and keep it
abreast of the demands of the hour.
Surely we have got to meet the de-
mands Of the hour or surrender the
traffic to the competition of the devil.
In the gait we go the speed we reach
determines the number of obstacles In
our way. Very few things will get out
Of the way of slow-moving procession,
but when speed and momentum have
reached perfection the world roosts on
the sidewalk and gives up the whole
street for the display of your speed, and
the unobstructed track of which you
have possession will furnish every fa-
cility for speed and safety. We must
move up in the Christian world or we
will have to move out.
SAM P. JONES.