The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-29

the wise of the east may see no longer
 rests over us" It was as if we Ameri-
 cans whom God has trained for hun dreds of years that free church in a free state might be born among us, to
 whom the earnest expectation of the down trodden peoples of all lands turns with eager hope, now, in possess
 sion of the knowledge, the experience
 and the sinews of vigorous life should
 suddenly say: "We have no king, but money" This is the end of it, Oh, ye | perishing peoples that have hoped in
 America and the republic. After all
 money owns from president to clerk
 and the trust is king" So said the
 Jews: This is the end of the sacred
 books, the ancient traditions, the con-
 secrated history, this Is the end, Oh,
 Greeks, Persians, Elauntos, all who
 have been looking to Jerusalem for hope
 and help, a blood-stained, blasphemous
 egotist at Rome is our king, We have
 no other"
 For while all was sobbing night,
 the very stars shone blood and the winds blew demoniao laughter, such am
 end for a Messianic kingdom and 4,0OO years of hoping Then one day the old regal form stood on green olivet, the divine sunshine and the free winds
 bathing his kingly brow, and said to his band: "Go. TaITy at Jerusalem
 only till ye are endued with power
 from on high" And then it came upon them that i've have no king but Caesar"
 was not the end of the promise, but
 just Judea's abdication as the land
 of promise, Judea's resignation as the
 west, the star was shining farther on,
 they had themselves become the east.
 And surely enough the disciples were first called Christians, the imperial
 standard first flung to the breeze, at
 Antiock farther west. From Mace
 donia came cry, still westward come
 over and help us," and the inspired
 narrative closes with a tough little
 old man, more battered than helmets
 of the soldiers that guarded him stand
 ing on the banks of the Fiber and
 planting there the standard of soul
 freedom. It is the end of the inspired
 but not the end of the inspired
 history, no, from the middle of the
 Pacific Ocean, all but round the world
 from the place where those wise men
 started after the star, there came to
 us last year. a cry for protection and
 brotherhood from an island where the
 unWearying descendants of Paul plant-
 ed, fifty years ago, the same old stan-
 dard and it is not the end
 But if we glance at efforts to go the ether way we are confronted by a pie ture of failure as signal as is the west ward course of victory. Missions from the west to the east have never been a success. The crusades, the united, ear nest, devoted attempt of all Europe to rescue the Holy Land from the Saracen, whatever may have been their other re- suits, were flat failure in their direct object. Yet there is no material reason why they should not have succeeded. The odds against them were not a cir cumstance to those against the Pilgrim fathers. Russian harbarism lies right alongside of European civilization, but on the wrong side of 1t, and notwith- standing the efforts of Russian rulers, Japan has more of the European spirit than Russia. The attempt to create a migration of our southern negroes back to Africa is dead nonsense. The world does not go around that way, If the negro ever gets back to Africa he will get back across California and the Pa cifio ocean. Large portions of Europe, though having abandoned all faith n l Romanism, are not Protestant. They | are just nothing, and our tingling Amer ican and English activity does not touch l them. And so with our church missions to the east. I do not mean to- say that | they are failures, that they have not 2 thousand times repaid the outlay; but | like the success has crowned | them which has attended missions from | the east to the west. Why, we our selves, Anglo-Saxondom and Saxondom, | are the product of missions from the | east to the west, and Turkey, India, | China, the product of missions the other | way. You know the story; how we beatJ up against adamantine walls of preju- dice and conceit. And the element of | failure is in ourselves, too. The Eng lishman offers China the gospel with | one hand and the opium pipe with the other, and the American offers Africa one Bible to every three barrels of Med ford rum. Englishmen and Americans, though the heirs of the promise, though ! made strong by the faith, though with l he king among us, are uniting in say ng to-day, "We have no king, but com nerce; and the peoples of the earth 'ise up and curse us for 1t with anathe- mas as bitter as those that followed the | Romans triumphal car. However, we nave not yet as a people stood before oilate and said so There. are a good many millions in this country leader ! ess atpresent, There are a good many millions in England led by the Grand )ld Man, who won't say so, who are not l willing yet to abdicate as children of he promise, who are determined yet to To a stroke in the name of righteous less and the king.
 Meantime there has arisen a new land n the west. We in the east have seen ts star, and it is wonderful people 1 t has got it's knowledge, too, in the l fight place, It has an American con ( titution, am American spirit, an Amer can Christianity, American scholars I nd schools. It got its knowledge in ! he right place, the east, ever the store I ouse of experience. Russia can't get , from the west, and now, above all, ' apan lies on the right side of China, z ndia, Turkey, all the old mountains of ( for conquest. They are west I f her. She can follow the star west a -ard, which is the way the star goes, i otI, N1